1969 – SUITCASE MUSEUM – Beginning in 1969, docents for the Suitcase Museum presented to 6th-grade students in Caddo Parish schools an art appreciation study that covered the Ancient Egyptian period through the Renaissance. Each volunteer introduced a suitcase containing an assortment of paintings, prints, and artifacts. The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art in New Orleans provided original pieces, and accurate reproductions completed the suitcases. In 1972 the Art Guild agreed to co-fund this program. It became the Art in Education program in which approximately 2,000 students from Caddo Parish schools and seven private schools viewed a traveling exhibit and toured the R.S. Barnwell Memorial Garden & Art Center.