B. Stephen Carpenter, II, is Professor of Art Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has authored journal articles and book chapters on art education, visual culture, and curriculum theory. He is co-author of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Art in High School (2006); co-editor of Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy (2006); past editor of Art Education (2004-2006); past co-editor of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (2010-2012); and, director of reservoir studio, a social action collective. His ceramics, mixed-media assemblages, installations, and performance artworks address social issues and call into question historical, cultural, and political constructs. His current creative and scholarly efforts focus on social media in preservice art education, professional development for k12 art teachers and museum educators, and the global water crisis as curriculum.