Carey Fee

Dr. Carey E. Fee has devoted the last two decades to art and art history education, teaching in California, Florida, and Florence, Italy. Her specialty is art from the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance, but she has taught courses on topics as varied as Modern Art and Architecture, Art Appreciation, the Etruscans, and Museum Studies. Her goal is the empowerment of students through helping them discover their own words and voices, unlocking their natural ability to discuss and appreciate art and to use this ability in all aspects of their personal and professional lives. 

Dr. Fee’s doctoral research focused on the Italian city of Lucca, specifically on medieval pilgrimage to the city to see Il Volto Santo (the Holy Face). In her current research she continues to explore themes of pilgrimage, examining the role and significance of pilgrimage to “authentic replicas” located in the United States such as Palestine Gardens, a replica of the Holy Land in Lucedale, Mississippi. She has also studied–and will return to this again, she promises!–the memory of the Etruscan civilization in medieval Tuscany.

Dr. Fee earned her PhD at Florida State University, where she wrote her dissertation “Per Sanctum Vultum de Luca!: Il Volto Santo and the Face of Lucca in the Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries” under the direction of Dr. Paula L. Gerson. She also holds a Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis, and studied art conservation at Studio Art Centers International in Florence. She has presented at many national and international conferences, is the winner of numerous awards and fellowships, and has curated four exhibitions. She works closely with colleagues around the world to connect emerging professionals with opportunities to collaborate with art communities in Tallahassee and beyond.