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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, ARTISTS and EARTH 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. He
wrote and illustrated a series of
children's books, which includes
Spinning Worlds,
Volcanoes & Earthquakes, and three other titles. With
his wife, Caroline, he has written two daily devotionals based
on science (Absolutely Awesome 1
and 2, Tyndale), along with Exploring
Ancient Cities of the Bible and the Gold Medallion
finalist Dinosaurs (Cook). Mike
lives with his inspiring and wonderful coauthor, business
manager, and wife (all three of them have met), and fine kids
Andy (19) and
Allie (16) at the foot of the Rockies in Littleton,
Colorado.
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