Bio

Schulte is the fifth of ten children, born and raised on a farm near Pleasanton, Nebraska. He received his elementary and secondary education at Pleasanton Public Schools, then went to Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska-Kearney) where he majored in mathematics and minored in physical education. He taught high school math and coached in Nebraska for four years before returning to Kearney to get an undergraduate degree in art and then a master’s degree in art (his master’s theses was in watercolor and he was a TA teaching art appreciation and art structure) at Kearney, followed by a year as an Assistant Professor, covering for a faculty member who was on sabbatical.

Schulte then completed a PhD in the philosophy of education at the University of Kansas, specializing in early childhood art education and statistics. After completing the PhD, he moved to New York City where he was an Assistant Dean at Parsons School of Design and also taught fiber art classes in the evening at Parsons/The New School.

His 32-year tenure in NYC included jobs at Shearson Lehman (working in the international banking department) and real estate (managing office buildings in NYC and Greenwich, CT).

He began to study writing poetry in NYC in 2010 and continues to write and take classes at UNM in creative writing. He and his husband, Alan Zimmerman, retired to Albuquerque in 2015. Schulte has been a working visual artist for the past 50 years and continues to create in his downtown Albuquerque studio.