Tracey Hunter-Doniger is an associate professor and the department chair of teacher education at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She specializes in arts in education. She began her career as a public school teacher, a role in which she served for 15 years. Her central research focuses on STEAM education, art infusion, and forest schools. Nancy Walkup has been the editor of SchoolArts, a magazine for art educators published since 1901, since 2005. She was also a contributing author, along with Marilyn Stewart, Eldon Katter, and Laura Chapman, for the first edition of Explorations in Art, Davis Publications's elementary textbook series.