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SCHOOLING

2009 -present
PhD studies, The Pennsylvania State University

2008
Master of Science in Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University

2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a K-12 certification in art education , The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
 
TEACHING
2011-present
Tenure-track faculty appointment.
Lecturer,
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2010-2011
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Education,
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
ARTE 202 Methods of Teaching Art
ARTF Design Foundations: Color
ARTE 501 Contemporary Art Practice as Pedagogy

2007-2010
Pennsylvania State University
Art Ed 323 Art Education and Visual Culture (instructor),
Art 413 Performance Art, (co-taught with Dr. Charles Garoian),
Art Ed 303 Art in the Elementary School (instructor),
Art 020 Intro to Drawing online (TA),
Art Ed 489 Advanced Practicum (TA),
Art Ed 490 Capstone in Art Education (TA).

2000-2007
Northside College Prep High School, taught Painting and Drawing (1,2, and 3) Art History AP, Colloquiums: F, Lovestuff, Write Your Pants Off, The Surrealism Sensibility amongt others. Advised Senior Project Students in Visual Art, Art History, Writing, Stagecraft, Pedagogy and Interdisciplinary Topics.

Summer 2003
College of DuPage, Florence, Italy: Painting and Drawing.

2000-03
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Continuing Studies Program: Intergenerational Programs (age 9 and up, combined) and Middle School Summer Programs.
 
1998-99
Gallery Rompecabezas, Melrose Park IL
 
PUBLICATIONS

2011
Lucero, J.R. (in press, due out October 15, 2011). La Pocha Nostra: Practicing mere life. In Quinn, T., Hochtritt, L., & Ploof, J. (Eds.). Art and social justice education: Culture as commons. New York: Routledge.

2010
Interview with Bryan Saner, Proximity No. 8. Issue Guest Editors, Jim Duignan and Albert Stabler.

Guest editor with Matthew Goulish for the Perspectives Section of
The Curriculum and Pedagogy Journal, vol. 7(1) -Head Editors, Stephanie Springgay and B. Stephen Carpenter.

2009
Bergman, N. P., Lucero, J. Springgay, S., & Gershon, W. Urban literacy, exchange, and an aesthetic of civic engagement: towards a curriculum and pedagogy of presence. In Burdick, J., Sandlin, J. A., & Daspit, T. (Eds.) Complicated conversations & confirmed commitments: revitalizing education for democracy. Troy, NY: Educators International Press, Inc. 

2006

Running in Place is Dumb, Teaching Artist Journal, Spring 2006, vol. 4  no.2
 
2004
north true south free, Goat Island/Northside High School collaborative. Purchase it here
 
2003
Latent Article, Teaching Artist Journal, Spring 2003, vol.1 no.2

2001- 2007
Chief Editor of For and From Outsiders Press. No longer publishing.
 

 
 

WORKSHOPS/PERFORMANCE/ LECTURE


2011

(lecture/panel) Contemporary art practice as pedagogy, CAPE Convergence. Illinois Institute of Design.


(lecture/workshop) Performance and conceptual art approaches at the secondary level. Northern Iowa University, Cedar Falls, IA.


(lecture) Jorge Lucero WORKS. Illinois State University, Normal, IL.


(performance/lecture) With Mary Elizabeth Meier, Charles Garoian, and John Howell White. Sustaining delay: Improvisation as an emergent space in curriculum. NAEA Conference, Seattle, WA.


(panel lecture) With Lisa Hochtritt, John Ploof, B. Stephen Carpenter, Olivia Gude, G.E. Washington, Sharif Bey, James Haywood Rolling, Jr. Edie Pistolesi, Kryssi Staikidis, Robert W. Sweeny, Donal O'Donoghue, Manisha Sharma, Delaney Gersten Susie and Anne Thulson. Culture as commons: Contemporary arts and social justice issues in the classroom. NAEA Conference, Seattle, WA.


(lecture) Latin American conceptual art and its proposals for art education. NAEA Conference, Seattle, WA.


2010


(lecture) Durational performance: A proposition for curriculum and pedagogy. Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Akron, OH. 


(lecture) Aesthetics of Hospitality, Symposium. October 7, 2010. Penn State University.


(lecture & workshop) Look Here, No Look There: Teaching as an artwork of multiple middles. Pedestrian Project: Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL.


(lecture) Monumento: on grading the arts. NAEA Conference, Baltimore, MD.


2009


(lecture) The Applicable Aesthetic of Live Art for a Pedagogy of Nearness or the Other Way Around. American Education Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA.


(video screening) These Are Not Short Stories. Subprime, Reed Arts Week. Reed College, Portland, OR.


2008


(lecture/performance) (Pr)Essence Training: Learning to Learn through the Becoming of Performance Group Goat Island. Graduate Research in Art Education, Teachers College, New York.


(workshop, high school) Decatur High Talks Words Never Spoken with Nora Bergman, Stephanie Springgay, and Walter Gershon. Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Decatur, GA


(workshop, intergenerational) "Teeny Tiny Tales" in conjunction with the exhibit "Miniature Worlds: Art from India" at the Palmer Museum of Art, University Park PA


(workshop, teachers) Chicago Public Schools Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster at Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL

(lecture) Goat Island Symposium, July 26th and 25th. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Auditorium, Chicago IL



2007


(performance) Goat Island's Lasting Part One at LINKS HALL as part of the OPENPORT performance festival accompanied by Judd Morrissey and Smokey Hormel with

students Liz, Hannah, Carla, Sarah, Rhiannon, and Claire


(performance w/ students) We'd like to open tonight with a moment of clarity, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Education Department

 

(workshop) Chicago Public Schools Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster at The Second City, Chicago IL


(performance w/ students) CAPE Convergence, Peter Jones Gallery

 

2006
(performance) Running in Place is Dumb/ Great, NAEA conference, Chicago Hilton and Towers
 
(workshop) Ways of Seeing, not John Berger at the International Museum of Surgical Sciences, Chicago
 
(workshop) Hyde Park Art Center, three day professional development workshop co-lead with artist Maritza Mosquera on performance and collaborative pedagogy
 
(workshop) CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnership in Education) and FAPAMCP (CPS Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program) Making a Something from an Anything, teacher professional development for sixty different Chicago Public Schools, co-lead with four of my students, Liz Born, Rachel Ramir, Jane Fidman, and Nick Blumberg.
 
(performance) Privatdozent, Pennsylvania State University, Art Ed. Dept.
 
(lecture) Depaul University, Art Ed. Dept.
 
 
2005
(performance) Such a Heavenly Way to Die, McHenry County College lecture/performance
 
(lecture) Depaul University, Art Ed. Dept.


(performance) "Sincerely, Jorge Lucero instructor of painting and drawing and art history northside college prep, high school" Exhibition Studies Center, 1926 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL.
 
(lecture) Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, Curriculum Fair Presenter
 
 
2004
(lecture) Depaul university, Art Ed. Dept.
 
(lecture) Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, Curriculum Fair Presenter
 
 
2003

(lecture) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Education Dept.
 
(lecture) DePaul University, Art Ed. Dept.
 
(lecture) Performing Arts Chicago, Arts Integration Symposium
 
(performance) Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, Goat Island/ Northside Collaborative
 
 
2002
(lecture) Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
 
(juror), Scholastic Art Awards, regional level
 
(workshop) Terra Museum of American Art, Jasper Johns Prints
 
(lecture) Illinois Art Education Association Convention
 
(lecture) Lake View H.S., Beacon Street Gallery guest lecturer
 
 
2001
(workshop) Terra museum of American Art, Abstraction to Reality.
 
(lecture) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Education Department
 
(lecture) Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education


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SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS


2005
Such a Heavenly Way to Die, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL.
 

2004
jorge lucero works on paper, Chicago Public Library, Edgebrook Branch.
 

2003
Performance, Eight Minutes of Fame, PAC Edge Performance Festival. Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago, IL.
 
2000
Union League of Chicago, Fiesta Dos Mil

 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2011

Hecho en Casa/ Homemade. Cobalt Studio, Chicago, IL.


Contemporary art practice as pedagogy. Art Chicago, booth:287. Merchandise Mart. Chicago, IL.


2010

Pedestrian Project, Pop-Up Art Space- June, 208 South Wabash. Chicago, IL.


Center of Multiple Middles. Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL.


University of Illinois School of Art+Design Faculty Exhibit, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL.


2008

Mapping: Cartographies of learning. C33 Gallery, Columbia College Chicago.


Longitude and Attitude: Artist Cartographies, Vespine Gallery, Chicago IL

 

2004
Lucky Pierre Presents 32 Key Concepts.


2003
Substation No. 9, Northern Indiana Arts Association with Alberto Aguilar
 
Cubicle, Uncle Freddy's Gallery, Hammond Indiana
 
Faculty Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
 
 
2001
Faculty Exhibition, Northside College Prep
 
9.11 Gallery X
 
Northern Indiana Arts Association
 
Illinois Arts Council, Fiesta del Sol, 2001
 
 
2000
Nippon Steel Annual Juried Exhibition, Show 2
 
Illinois Arts Council, Fiesta del Sol, 2000
 
 
1999
Nippon Steel Annual Juried Exhibition, Show 1
 
Gallery 2, Chicago IL
 
5th Annual University Art Show- Northern Indiana Arts Association, juried by James Yood
 
Story and Subtext, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston IL
 
 
1998
Chicago Artist Coalition Show, White Tower Building, Chicago IL
 
SAIC undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Chicago IL
 
 
1997
Cuentos: A Visual Dialogue, Gallery 2, Chicago IL
 
Four Christian Painters, The Lounge Gallery, Chicago IL
 
The White Trash Show, The Lounge Gallery, Chicago IL
 
Alberto Aguilar, Jorge Rafael Lucero, Andres Martinez, Luca Padroni at Due Mondi, Chicago IL


1996
At the Crossroads, Jacobs Well Gallery, Around the Coyote Chicago IL
 
Mediating Text, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago IL
 
2.17” Gallery X, Chicago IL


1995
Regenerate Art, Jacobs Well Gallery, Chicago IL
 
Book Unbound, Gallery X, Chicago IL
 
FYP Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago IL


OTHER STUFF 


2011
Invited juror for the Danville Town and Country Art Show. Danville, IL.


Co-curated with Jimmy Luu and Tumelo Mosaka, Ten to watch, a year-long showcase of MFA candidates from the University of Illinois at Figure One, Champaign, IL.