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NEA Discipline Directors
Sarah Bainter Cunningham has been Director of Arts Education for the National Endowment for the Arts since September 2005. In that capacity, she provides national leadership in the field of arts education and oversees several national initiatives including NEA Jazz in the Schools, NEA Summer Schools in the Arts, and NEA Education Leaders Institute, as well as chairs the peer panel process for the review of more than 700 applications each year. She also assists in the development of educational materials for the Big Read, a program designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. From March 2004 until her appointment with the NEA, Dr. Cunningham was the director of the Education Assessment and Charter Accreditation Program at the American Academy for Liberal Education in Washington, DC where she supervised a program to assess and accredit liberal arts-oriented charter schools. From March 1999 to February 2004, Dr. Cunningham was the first academic dean and dean of students at the Oxbow School, a visual arts high school in Napa, California. She helped found the school, designing a curriculum that integrated the visual arts with academic courses, including a team-taught course with an instructor in digital art/photography that fully integrated English with Web design and photography, and digital art. She also managed the school’s professional development, admissions, student life, and curriculum decisions. Dr. Cunningham has held teaching positions at a variety of institutions including assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Maine (Orono), a Burke Teaching Fellow in Aesthetics at Vanderbilt University (Nashville), and philosophy instructor at Belmont University (Nashville). Her publications include articles in National Charter School Clearinghouse Newsletter and book reviews in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts and the Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Dr. Cunningham received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Kenyon College and her masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
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