Joyner looked beyond just white schools and helped to create a Negro Art Section to work with VEA and lay the groundwork for the Negro Art Service in the Department of Education (Quick, 1986; Nichols, 1979: Quick and Burton, 2015). Art educators Pearl Quick and David Burton (2015) reveal the position of an African American assistant supervisor was created for the purpose of bringing equal opportunity to schools in Virginia. As a result, the Virginia Department of Education approved Joyner in hiring Mary Godfrey on June 10, 1947 as a way to afford all the schools in Virginia equal opportunity (Nichols, 1979; Quick and Burton, 2015). Godfrey’s job was to supervise the black schools in the state and to promote art education, (Quick, 1986; Hollingsworth, 1988). Ironically, her presence was to help organize the black section of the VEA. The VEA of mainly white educators are credited for creating a position for an African American supervisor in Virginia. However, there is no mention of the Virginia Teachers Reading Circle created in 1887, comprised of Black
Joyner looked beyond just white schools and helped to create a Negro Art Section to work with VEA and lay the groundwork for the Negro Art Service in the Department of Education (Quick, 1986; Nichols, 1979: Quick and Burton, 2015). Art educators Pearl Quick and David Burton (2015) reveal the position of an African American assistant supervisor was created for the purpose of bringing equal opportunity to schools in Virginia. As a result, the Virginia Department of Education approved Joyner in hiring Mary Godfrey on June 10, 1947 as a way to afford all the schools in Virginia equal opportunity (Nichols, 1979; Quick and Burton, 2015). Godfrey’s job was to supervise the black schools in the state and to promote art education, (Quick, 1986; Hollingsworth, 1988). Ironically, her presence was to help organize the black section of the VEA. The VEA of mainly white educators are credited for creating a position for an African American supervisor in Virginia. However, there is no mention of the Virginia Teachers Reading Circle created in 1887, comprised of Black