Constance Bumgarner Gee

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1993

Short Biography

Professor Gee has written extensively on the impact and consequences of public policy and programming on K-12 arts education, and on the affects of arts advocacy on public perceptions about the nature and merits of arts education.

She teaches an introductory public policy course (HOD 2100) for the Human and Organizational Development Department and has taught the course Public Policy, the Arts, and Arts Education for the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations. Public Policy, the Arts, and Arts Education focuses on the origins and evolving character of public funding for the arts in the United States and explores popularly held beliefs about the public and private purposes and significance of art in a democratic society. She has served as an executive editor for the scholarly journal Arts Education Policy Review since 1997. She is also a board director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and an advisory board member for Vanderbilt's Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy.

Immediately prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Professor Gee taught at Brown University (1998-2000). In 1993 she founded the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University and served as its director through 1997.

Professor Gee earned her Ph.D. in art education from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She holds a M.F.A. in painting and sculpture from Pratt Institute and a B.F.A. in painting and design from East Carolina University.

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Selected Publications

"Spirit, Mind, and Body: Arts Education the Redeemer," in Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education, E. Eisner and M. Day (Eds.). (TechBooks) 2004. (Reprinted in Arts Education Policy Review, March/April 2004.)

Uncritical Pronouncements Build Critical Links for Federal Arts Bureaucracy," Arts Education Policy Review, January/February 2003.

"The 'Use and Abuse' of Arts Advocacy and Its Consequences for Music Education," Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (Oxford University Press) scheduled for publication early 2002.

"The Perils and Parables of Research on Research,"Arts Education Policy Review, May/June 2001.

"I Can See Clearly Now: Possible Sequelae of the Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP)," Beyond the Soundbite: Arts Education and Academic Outcomes (The Getty Center, Los Angeles) 2001.

"Symposium on Arts Education in the 21st Century,"Parts 1 and 2 (Editor), Arts Education Policy Review, November/December 2000 and January/February 2001.

"For You Dear - Anything! (Remembering and Returning to First Principles)," Part 2, Arts Education Policy Review, May/June 1999.

"For You Dear - Anything! (Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Servitude 'through the Arts')," Part 1, Arts Education Policy Review, March/April 1999.

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