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Rogena M. Degge

Rogena M. Degge Professor Emerita
Arts and Administration Program (AAD)
School of Architecture & Allied Arts (AAA)
University of Oregon (UO)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY (Research & Teaching)

I taught at the University of Oregon beginning in 1979. My research and teaching addressed social, political, and cultural issues surrounding the arts. The contexts that I worked within and interrelated are: arts education, museum studies, arts policy, and arts management. Relatedly, courses I taught included art in society, cultural policy in the arts, museum education, and art and gender. Also, I coordinated the museum studies program.

One strand of my research examined relationships between school arts and community arts programming. An example is a 1998 chapter, "Towards Comparative, Cross-cultural Evaluation of Community Center Arts Programs: Emergent Themes from United States and Japanese Examples," co-authored with Professor Takuya Kaneda of Japan. My work has been published in the United States, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand in books , anthologies, refereed journals, proceedings, and a UNESCO Report. This includes a major college textbook, Art, Culture, and Environment, co-authored with June King McFee used in the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.

I was privileged to give over 100 addresses across the U.S., in 3 Canadian provinces and several European countries, and in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. From 1986 - 1990 I was Editor of the Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education. I founded and was Editor of the premiere issue of the journal Controversies in Art & Culture. I co-founded the Public Policy and Arts and Administration Affiliate of NAEA. In 1998 I was appointed to the Cultural Policy Network, by the Center for Arts & Culture in Washington, D.C. Our purpose was advancing scholarly study of culture and policy and research projects to address the needs of practitioners, opinion leaders and policy makers.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1975 and M.S. 1972 in Art Education, University of Oregon, Eugene;

B.A. 1964 in Fine Arts, California State University, Fresno;

Certificate in Higher Ed. Administration, 1985, Bryn Mawr College, Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education.

ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

1993 - : Arts & Administration Program, School of AAA, University of Oregon.

1985 - 90: Chair: Department of Art Education, University of Oregon.

1979 - 1993: Dept. of Art Education, School of AAA, University of Oregon.

1975 - 1979: Art Education Department, College of Art, The Ohio State University.

MAJOR AWARDS

1997, National Art Education Association Women's Caucus June King McFee Award, for distinguished and continuous contributions to the field in research, teaching, and service.

1993, The Edwin Ziegfeld Award from The United States Society for Education through the Arts, "for distinguished international leadership in art education".

1987, National Higher Education Art Educator, from the National Art Education Association.

GRANTS & CONSULTING

I served as a member of the 1993-97 Japan/U.S. Comparative Cultural Policy Project team, based at UCLA and Tokyo. My past consulting has been in environmental design and culture-based arts education curricula. I served at Getty sponsored seminars and conferences regarding Discipline-Based Art Education; was evaluator on Getty Center curriculum evaluation projects and a key consultant for a 3-year, $125,000 Getty DBAE implementation grant to the Eugene School Dist., 1986-89; and was co-recipient of a $25,000 Getty grant to develop a university course in art criticism, 1988.

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Art, Culture and Environment: A Catalyst for Teaching; co-author June King McFee. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, 398 pages. First Edition 1977-1980 two printings (hardcover), Wadsworth Publishing Company; 1980-1990, three printings (paperback), revision 1993. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque.

Sample of Published Papers and Videotape:

Towards Comparative, Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Community Center Arts Programs: Emergent Themes from United States and Japanese Examples (1998). Co-author Takuya Kaneda (Japan). In Boughton, D. and Congdon, K. (Vol. Eds.) Evaluating Art Education Programs in Community Centers: International perspectives on problems of conception and practice. Vol. 4, pp. 89-112. Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, Inc.

Experience as Strength in the Service of Vision. Invited (1997). The Report. NAEA publication of the Women's Caucus. In press, 22 pp. manuscript.

June King McFee's Life and Work (1997). In Bolin, P. and Anderson, A. (Eds.) History of Art Education Proceedings of the Third Penn State International Symposium. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, pp. 138-146.

Addendum Comments to: In Search of a Cogent Cultural Policy (1996), by M. Watanabe. CulturelLinks , 18, April, pp. 171-72 [publication of Institute for Development and International Relations: Zagreb, Croatia].

"A Conversation with June King McFee" (1995). A 35-minute videotape, co-produced with K. Congdon [U. of Central Florida] and K. Keifer-Boyd [Texas Tech University].

Book review: Pankratz, D., Multiculturalism and Public Arts Policy . In Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society , Vol 25, No. 1, Spring, pp. 85-7.

Cultural Policy and Global Directions for Art Education (1994). Art Info , Winter/Spring (9-11), New Zealand Association of Art Educators publication.

Criticizing Television: Aesthetic and Cultural Approaches to TV Images (1994), with C. Cochrane.In: Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism, Terry Barrett (Ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: ERIC: ART.

A Response to Brent Wilson's "Name Brand, Generic Brand, and Popular Brands: The Boundaries of Discipline-based Art Education" (1988). Issues in Discipline-Based Art Education: Strengthening the Stance, Extending the Horizons. Los Angeles: The Getty Center for Education in the Arts.

Review (1988) of K-12 Arts Education in the United States: Present Context, Future Need (a 32-page policy document). Studies in Art Education, 29, (2).*

Cultural policy in art: Research directions for art education (1987). In R. Degge and L. Ettinger (Eds.) Premiere issue: Proceedings of NAEA Public Policy and Arts Administration Affiliate. Eugene: University of Oregon Press. Revised version: Cultural Policies in Art: Research and Leadership Directions for Art Education, NAEA NEWS. December, 1987.

Seeking cultural understanding: Gaining empathetic knowing through the art of the picturebook as one of five modalities (1987), co-author Kenneth Marantz. The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. *

A descriptive study of community art teachers with implications for teacher preparation and cultural policy. (1987). Studies in Art Education. 28 (3).*

The master teacher of art: Context and beyond.(1986). Ohio Art Education Association Journal. 24 (3) 10-15. A revised version of Keynote Address, Bowling Green, Ohio.*

A Model for Visual Aesthetic Inquiry in Television (1985). Journal of Aesthetic Education, 19 (4), pp. 85-101.

Environmental design education: Pedagogy and practice. (1985). In R. Mason and E. Berg (Eds.) Review of Art and Environmental Education. UNESCO Report.

The designed environment: Interaction and impact. (1984). Sixth Regional Congress Report. Amsterdam: The International Society for Education Through Art.

The classroom art teacher as inquirer. (1982). Studies in Art Education, 24 (1)25-32. Reprinted in Pennsylvania Art Teachers Association journal, 1983.*

From practice to theory to practice. (1980). BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, 9 (1), 2-4 (based on British Columbia Art Teachers Assn Keynote Address).

What do teachers need to make art basic? (1979). In S. M. Dobbs (Ed.), Arts Education and Back to Basics (pp. 168-180). Reston, Va.: NAEA Publications.



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Degge Professor Emerita Arts and Administration Program (AAD) School of Architecture & Allied Arts (AAA) University of Oregon (UO) PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY (Research & Teaching) I taught at the University of Oregon beginning in 1979. My research and teaching addressed social, political, and cultural issues surrounding the arts. The contexts that I worked within and interrelated are: arts education, museum studies, arts policy, and arts management. Relatedly, courses I taught included art in society, cultural policy in the arts, museum education, and art and gender. Also, I coordinated the museum studies program. One strand of my research examined relationships between school arts and community arts programming. An example is a 1998 chapter, "Towards Comparative, Cross-cultural Evaluation of Community Center Arts Programs: Emergent Themes from United States and Japanese Examples," co-authored with Professor Takuya Kaneda of Japan. My work has been published in the United States, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand in books , anthologies, refereed journals, proceedings, and a UNESCO Report. This includes a major college textbook, Art, Culture, and Environment, co-authored with June King McFee used in the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. I was privileged to give over 100 addresses across the U.S., in 3 Canadian provinces and several European countries, and in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. From 1986 - 1990 I was Editor of the Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education. I founded and was Editor of the premiere issue of the journal Controversies in Art & Culture. I co-founded the Public Policy and Arts and Administration Affiliate of NAEA. In 1998 I was appointed to the Cultural Policy Network, by the Center for Arts & Culture in Washington, D.C. Our purpose was advancing scholarly study of culture and policy and research projects to address the needs of practitioners, opinion leaders and policy makers. EDUCATION Ph.D. 1975 and M.S. 1972 in Art Education, University of Oregon, Eugene; B.A. 1964 in Fine Arts, California State University, Fresno; Certificate in Higher Ed. Administration, 1985, Bryn Mawr College, Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education. ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS 1993 - : Arts & Administration Program, School of AAA, University of Oregon. 1985 - 90: Chair: Department of Art Education, University of Oregon. 1979 - 1993: Dept. of Art Education, School of AAA, University of Oregon. 1975 - 1979: Art Education Department, College of Art, The Ohio State University. MAJOR AWARDS 1997, National Art Education Association Women's Caucus June King McFee Award, for distinguished and continuous contributions to the field in research, teaching, and service. 1993, The Edwin Ziegfeld Award from The United States Society for Education through the Arts, "for distinguished international leadership in art education". 1987, National Higher Education Art Educator, from the National Art Education Association. GRANTS & CONSULTING I served as a member of the 1993-97 Japan/U.S. Comparative Cultural Policy Project team, based at UCLA and Tokyo. My past consulting has been in environmental design and culture-based arts education curricula. I served at Getty sponsored seminars and conferences regarding Discipline-Based Art Education; was evaluator on Getty Center curriculum evaluation projects and a key consultant for a 3-year, $125,000 Getty DBAE implementation grant to the Eugene School Dist., 1986-89; and was co-recipient of a $25,000 Getty grant to develop a university course in art criticism, 1988. PUBLICATIONS Book: Art, Culture and Environment: A Catalyst for Teaching; co-author June King McFee. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, 398 pages. First Edition 1977-1980 two printings (hardcover), Wadsworth Publishing Company; 1980-1990, three printings (paperback), revision 1993. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque. Sample of Published Papers and Videotape: Towards Comparative, Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Community Center Arts Programs: Emergent Themes from United States and Japanese Examples (1998). Co-author Takuya Kaneda (Japan). In Boughton, D. and Congdon, K. (Vol. Eds.) Evaluating Art Education Programs in Community Centers: International perspectives on problems of conception and practice. Vol. 4, pp. 89-112. Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, Inc. Experience as Strength in the Service of Vision. Invited (1997). The Report. NAEA publication of the Women's Caucus. In press, 22 pp. manuscript. June King McFee's Life and Work (1997). In Bolin, P. and Anderson, A. (Eds.) History of Art Education Proceedings of the Third Penn State International Symposium. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, pp. 138-146. Addendum Comments to: In Search of a Cogent Cultural Policy (1996), by M. Watanabe. CulturelLinks , 18, April, pp. 171-72 [publication of Institute for Development and International Relations: Zagreb, Croatia]. "A Conversation with June King McFee" (1995). A 35-minute videotape, co-produced with K. Congdon [U. of Central Florida] and K. Keifer-Boyd [Texas Tech University]. Book review: Pankratz, D., Multiculturalism and Public Arts Policy . In Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society , Vol 25, No. 1, Spring, pp. 85-7. Cultural Policy and Global Directions for Art Education (1994). Art Info , Winter/Spring (9-11), New Zealand Association of Art Educators publication. Criticizing Television: Aesthetic and Cultural Approaches to TV Images (1994), with C. Cochrane.In: Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism, Terry Barrett (Ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: ERIC: ART. A Response to Brent Wilson's "Name Brand, Generic Brand, and Popular Brands: The Boundaries of Discipline-based Art Education" (1988). Issues in Discipline-Based Art Education: Strengthening the Stance, Extending the Horizons. Los Angeles: The Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Review (1988) of K-12 Arts Education in the United States: Present Context, Future Need (a 32-page policy document). Studies in Art Education, 29, (2).* Cultural policy in art: Research directions for art education (1987). In R. Degge and L. Ettinger (Eds.) Premiere issue: Proceedings of NAEA Public Policy and Arts Administration Affiliate. Eugene: University of Oregon Press. Revised version: Cultural Policies in Art: Research and Leadership Directions for Art Education, NAEA NEWS. December, 1987. Seeking cultural understanding: Gaining empathetic knowing through the art of the picturebook as one of five modalities (1987), co-author Kenneth Marantz. The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. * A descriptive study of community art teachers with implications for teacher preparation and cultural policy. (1987). Studies in Art Education. 28 (3).* The master teacher of art: Context and beyond.(1986). Ohio Art Education Association Journal. 24 (3) 10-15. A revised version of Keynote Address, Bowling Green, Ohio.* A Model for Visual Aesthetic Inquiry in Television (1985). Journal of Aesthetic Education, 19 (4), pp. 85-101. Environmental design education: Pedagogy and practice. (1985). In R. Mason and E. Berg (Eds.) Review of Art and Environmental Education. UNESCO Report. The designed environment: Interaction and impact. (1984). Sixth Regional Congress Report. Amsterdam: The International Society for Education Through Art. The classroom art teacher as inquirer. (1982). Studies in Art Education, 24 (1)25-32. Reprinted in Pennsylvania Art Teachers Association journal, 1983.* From practice to theory to practice. (1980). BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, 9 (1), 2-4 (based on British Columbia Art Teachers Assn Keynote Address). What do teachers need to make art basic? (1979). In S. M. Dobbs (Ed.), Arts Education and Back to Basics (pp. 168-180). Reston, Va.: NAEA Publications.