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Internationally known
artist Michael W. Carroll has been painting astronomical
subjects for over 20 years. He has done commissioned work
for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has
appeared in several hundred magazines throughout the world,
including TIME, SMITHSONIAN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and ASTRONOMY.
His paintings have aired on NOVA, COSMOS and various TV
specials, and have embellished albums and numerous books,
including works by Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, David Brin,
Terence Dickenson.
He
has exhibited works at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,
at Moscow's Institute for Space Research (IKI) and has had
traveling exhibits throughout the world. One of his paintings
was flown aboard Russia's MIR space station in 1995. Mike
has done murals for Lockheed/Martin, the Planetary Society,
the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Longway Planetarium,
Fleet Science Center, and several other science museums,
schools and churches.
Mike
helped to found the International Association
for the Astronomical Arts (IAAA) in 1984. He was one
of seven North American space artists invited by the Space
Research Institute of the former USSR to attend the Space
Future Forum in Moscow in l987, where he consulted with
Soviet scientists and artists. He is a member of the NASA
Arts Program.
Mike
is also a science journalist, with articles appearing
in Popular Science, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Clubhouse and
other magazines. His articles and stories have also appeared
outside the U.S., including Australian, Japanese, and
British
publications. His first book, Visions of the Revelation, was
an illustrated version of the last book of the Bible (Donning, 1991).
Since then, Mike and his coauthor wife Caroline have written and illustrated
a dozen children's books, including the Absolutely Awesome I and II
books, which are daily devotionals based on science (Tyndale House, 2000 and 2001).
Their children's book Dinosaurs (Cook 2000) was a Gold Medallion finalist.
Mike lives with his inspiring and wonderful coauthor, business manager, and
librarian wife (all three of them have met) and fine kids Andrew and
Alexandra at the
foot of the Rocky Mountains in Littleton, Colorado.
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