Art professor receives Lifetime Achievement award

From a UNT News Service press release

D. Jack Davis, a longtime professor of art and founding dean of UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA).

Davis, who was honored for his contributions to the field, was presented with the award at the 9th Annual Symposium on Early Texas Art and Texas Art Fair held in Dallas in April.

Davis began his career at UNT as a professor of art in 1971. During his tenure, he has served in the following positions:

• Chair of the Department of Art (now the Department of Art Education and Art History) from 1976 to 1983
• UNT associate vice president for academic affairs from 1983 to 1985
• UNT vice provost from 1985 to 1993 and founding dean of the UNT School of Visual Arts (now the College of Visual Arts and Design) from 1993 until 2004
• Professor of art and director of the university's North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, which prepares arts leaders

Before joining UNT, Davis served on the art faculty at Texas Tech University, University of Minnesota, Wayland Baptist University in Plainview and Baylor University. He also taught in the Waco public schools.

Davis is a life member and Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association, which includes elementary, secondary, middle and high school art teachers and representatives from major art museums, state departments of education, arts councils and major colleges and universities. In 2010, he received the Distinguished Service Within the Profession Award from the National Art Education Association. In 2005, he was named National Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.

Ellen Rossetti with UNT News Service can be reached at Ellen.Rossetti@unt.edu.

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