Unlike other types of research that tend to hone in on narrowly defined problems, demographic research takes the broad view, embracing every aspect of the field of education. It constructs as wide and inclusive a picture of art education as possible. For art educators, it probes deeply into how they relate to art and art education as students, art teachers, art educators, parents, administrators, policy makers, and communities would. By gathering information from as wide, as diverse, and as complete a spectrum of people involved in art education as possible, art educators can create a much more multidimensional, multilayered, integrated, and comprehensive view of the field. In this article, the author illustrates how demographic research has contributed to his own research and art education research as a whole through discussion of his own demographic studies. He determines that if educators could generate cycles of national demographic surveys for each level of education (elementary, middle school, high school, postsecondary) and other areas of art education (supervision, museum education, etc.) every 5 years, they would produce an ongoing and credible profile of the profession.