B Stephen Carpenter II
- Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Dean, College of Arts and Architecture
- Professor of Art Education and African American Studies
124 Borland Building
- Email aadean@psu.edu
Biography
B. Stephen Carpenter II is Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Dean in the College of Arts and Architecture and professor of art education and African American studies. He is chief executive artist for Reservoir Studio, was a founding co-director of the Summer Institute on Contemporary Art (SICA), a professional development workshop for preK-12 art teachers, and a founding co-director of the SoVA Studio for Sustainability and Social Action, which received a Penn State Strategic Initiative Seed Grant for 2019–2021.
During the 2017–2018 academic year, he was Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Artist and Learner-in-Residence, Easterly Parkway Elementary School.
Steve's research in art education spans curriculum theory; professional development for preK-12 teachers through contemporary art; public pedagogy, participatory art practices, and socially engaged art practice; critical art education studies; and the global water crisis as curriculum and social action. His mixed-media and performance artworks confront and disrupt social, historical, cultural, and political constructs.
He is co-editor of Professional Development in Art Museums: Strategies of Engagement Through Contemporary Art (2018), The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education (2018), and Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy (2006), and co-author of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Art in High School (2006).
Steve was senior editor of Studies in Art Education (2017–2019) and served previously as co-editor of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (2010–2013), and editor of Art Education (2004–2006). He is a member of the international editorial board of Curriculum Inquiry and a National Art Education Association (NAEA) Distinguished Fellow.