B S CARPENTER, II - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

B. Stephen Carpenter, II associate professor of art education and visual culture in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University. He is an exhibiting artist and art educator, has curated exhibitions and authored art criticism and scholarly articles on ceramics and interdisciplinary curriculum. His ceramics, mixed-media assemblages, installations, and performance artworks address issues of social justice and critique historical, cultural, and political constructs. In 2001 and 2003 his work appeared in the 3rd and 4th Biennale Internazionale dell’arte contemporanea (Florence Biennale) in Florence, Italy. He curated three art exhibitions in Norfolk, VA, one of which was named among the top 10 exhibitions in 1997 by The Virginian-Pilot. His research on contemporary art, art education, and curriculum appears in books, journals, and online. He is co-author of a forthcoming book Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Art in High School, co-editor of the forthcoming book Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic and Public Pedagogy, co-guest editor of a 2007 special issue of Callaloo, a literary and visual art journal, and editor of Art Education (the journal of the National Art Education Association).