Although the six RIGs have distinct qualities and supporting consortia of differing natures, evaluators found that they all facilitated broad-based instructional curricula. The regional institutes, which encompass urban, suburban, and rural schools in some 217 separate districts, include:

• The Florida Institute for Art Education, at Florida State University in Tallahassee, serving fourteen county districts through a network of ten area site programs located throughout the state.
  
  
• The Minnesota DBAE Consortium, at the Minnesota Alliance for Arts Education, serving forty-six school districts throughout the state.
  
  
• The Nebraska Consortium for DBAE, a program of the Nebraska Department of Education, known as Prairie Visions, serving nearly one hundred school districts that serve nearly 50 percent of the state's school population.
  
  
• The Ohio Partnership for the Visual Arts: Regional Institute for Educators, at Ohio State University, serving nineteen school districts through a network of four area sites around the state.
  
  
• The Southeast Institute for Education in the Visual Arts, one of three discipline-based institutes of the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Its sister institutes focus on discipline-based music and theater. The Visual Arts Institute works with thirty-two school districts in Tennessee and seven neighboring states.
  
  
• The North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, at the University of North Texas in Denton, serves six school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including two of the nation's largest (Dallas Independent and Fort Worth).

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