Karen Carr is a wildlife and natural history illustrator based in

Silver City, New Mexico Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat and the home of Western New Mexico University. As of the 2010 census the population was 10,315. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,704. History ...

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

zoo A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility where animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes. The term ''zoological garden'' refers to zoology, ...

s, museums and parks across the United States, Japan and Europe. She is the author or illustrator for many books for young people. She has done projects for the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, Education center, education and Research institute, research centers, created by the Federal government of the United States, U.S. government "for the increase a ...

, the

Audubon Society The National Audubon Society (Audubon; ) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats. Located in the United States and incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such orga ...

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi ...

, The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology,

Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

, ''

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

'' magazine, ''

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it, with more than 150 Nobel Pri ...

'',

Scholastic Press Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. P ...

Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. The company operates approximately 600 retail stores across the United States. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its B ...

, and the journal ''

Nature Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

''.

Life

Carr was born in

Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Te ...

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

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

, and received a

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students pursuing a professional education in the visual arts, Fine art, or performing arts. In some instances, it is also called a Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA). Background ...

from

North Texas State University The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public university, public research university located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Its main campus is in Denton, Texas, Denton, with a satellite campus in Frisco, Texas, Frisco. It serves as the ...

. She has done graduate studies in anatomy and business at

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas, United States. It is the northernmost institution of the University of Texas System. It was initially founded in 1961 as a private res ...

. She began her career as an apprentice to her father.

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

* *https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2022/07/01/meet-karen-carr-fort-worth-born-artist-who-designed-dinosaur-murals-for-the-perot-museum/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Karen Artists from New Mexico University of Texas at Austin alumni University of North Texas alumni University of Texas at Dallas alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women illustrators Paleoartists American children's book illustrators People from Silver City, New Mexico 21st-century American women American women children's book illustrators