Steven Schroeder

Artist on VibrantCast

Steven Schroeder is a poet and visual artist who lives and works in Chicago. Born in north central Texas, he grew up on the high plains in the Texas Panhandle. He has been painting and writing poetry for sixty years and has called Chicago home for fifty. He studied at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982. After three years (1981-1984) as a social worker, family counselor, and organizer back in the panhandle, he taught religious studies, philosophy, and humanities at universities in the United States and China until retiring from teaching in 2016. I think of my work as an intersection of chance with design — a collaboration with the media, painting with light while celebrating the way(s) pigment takes to surface, not showing or telling so much as opening a space for a play of possibility. At its best, work is what grownups call play when children do it. I take pleasure in my work as an artist, and one of the things I most enjoy is placing the works I make with people who find joy in them as well. Please take a look at the images here and on my website (stevenschroeder.org).