Calvin Carter

Texas native Calvin Carter is a full time artist and high school art teacher in Port Neches, Texas. He was raised in Hempstead Texas where he learned his love for wildlife and sporting art in the fields near Katy Texas with his father and grandfather. He won his first National Art contest at the age of 19 with the Izaak Walton Youth League of America Art contest.

After high school, he went on to pursue his art career under Professor Jerry Newman at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Carter went on to graduate from Lamar with a bachelor’s in fine art as well as become a certified schoolteacher. He continued to mostly paint figurative art for some time before moving back in to his early childhood passion of Wildlife and Sporting Art. He received numerous commissions and some that took him all the way to Alaska where he painted on a boat for a fishing lodge. He has created numerous Texas Stamp prints as well as placing fourth place in the Federal Duck Stamp Contest on his first attempt in 2013-2014. Carter has recently entered the Western Art Scene with his Native American Art being shown in the APA show, Southwest Art Magazine, Art of the West, Bosque show and Pearce Museum permanent collection.

Carter now lives in Bridge City Texas, traveling and creating with his wife Sammantha Carter, and six wonderful kids Austin, Caden, Zoe, Alexa, Macie, and Samuel. He enjoys hunting, fishing, photography, boating, traveling, and spending time with his family. His work can be found at Pearce Museum in Corsicana Texas.