Karen Carr is a wildlife

Wildlife art

Wildlife art is one of humanity's earliest art forms, dating back to prehistoric cave paintings such as those found at the grotto of Lascaux in France....

 and natural history

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 based in Silver City, New Mexico

Silver City, New Mexico

Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 10,545. It is the county seat of Grant County. The city is the home of Western New Mexico University.-History:...

. Her artwork has been featured in traditional and electronic media, in publications, zoo

Zoo

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s, museums and parks across the United States, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

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She is the author

Author

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 or illustrator

Illustrator

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 for many books for young people. She has done projects for the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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, the Audubon Society, Random House

Random House

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, HarperCollins

HarperCollins

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, The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

, Science

Science (journal)

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magazine, Scientific American

Scientific American

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, Scholastic Press

Scholastic Press

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, Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble

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, and the journal Nature

Nature (journal)

Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...

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Carr was born in Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

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. Her father is artist and sculptor Bill Carr and her mother, Linda Carr, is a scientist. Carr studied natural sciences, physics

Physics

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 and art at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 from North Texas State University. She has done graduate studies in anatomy

Anatomy

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 and business at University of Texas at Dallas

University of Texas at Dallas

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. She began her career as an apprentice to her father. She is also the associate professor at Portland University.

Publications

• A Busy Day for Stegosaurus (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 2004)

• Dino Dung (Step into Reading) by Karen Dr Chin, Thom Holmes, and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 22, 2005)

• Dinosaurs and More!: Dinosaurs And More! Travel Pack by Studio Mouse and Karen Carr (Hardcover - April 2006)

• Dinosaur Hunt: Texas-115 Million Years Ago by Karen Carr (Hardcover - Oct 8, 2002)

• How Do Frogs Swallow With Their Eyes? by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 1, 2003)

• Is a Dolphin a Fish? Scholastic Q & A (Scholastic Question & Answer) (Scholastic Question & Answer) by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, and Karen Carr (Paperback - Aug 2002)

• It's Tyrannosaurus Rex (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 2004)

• Jurassic Shark by Deborah Diffily and Karen Carr (Hardcover - Feb 17, 2004)

• Lead the Way, Velociraptor! (Read and Discover (Soundprints).) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 2004)

• Let's Explore, Moose (Read and Discover (Soundprints).) by Audrey Fraggalosch, Karen Carr, and Crista Forest (Paperback - Dec 2003)

• Lone Star Dinosaurs by Louis L. Jacobs and Karen Carr (School & Library Binding - Oct 2001)

• My Dinosaur Book by Karen Carr (Board book - April 3, 2007)

• Pteranodon Soars (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Oct 31, 2005)

• Snack Time, Tyrannosaurus Rex (Read and Discover (Soundprints).) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 2004)

• Surprise, Stegosaurus (Read and Discover (Soundprints).) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 2004)

• Triceratops Gets Lost (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Jul 30, 2004)

• Velociraptor: Small and Speedy (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - April 1, 2004)

• Watch Out, Triceratops (Read and Discover (Soundprints).) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Mar 2004)

• Woolly Mammoth In Trouble (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) (Smithsonian's Prehistoric Pals) by Dawn Bentley and Karen Carr (Paperback - Oct 1, 2004)

External links

• Karen Carr official webpage