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Background:

It is no small thing that a women’s college in the small town of Denton, Texas started the first studio art program in a Texas public university system. And it is not insignificant to know that most of the teachers for this early studio program at Texas State College for Women (TSCW) studied art at Columbia University in New York.

Art historians in our region discovered that these future Denton educators studied under Charles Martin and others who were mentored by Arthur Wesley Dow, who was an artist and arts educator that included Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Sheeler and Martin …