Jorge Lucero is an artist from Chicago who currently serves as Professor of Art Education in the School of Art & Design and also as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 2015 to 2023 he served as Chair of the UIUC Art Education Program.
As part of his decades-long work to test the creative and conceptual pliability of "school as material" Lucero participates in and around the academy in every manner possible. He has exhibited, performed, published, and taught through his work all over the U.S. and abroad.
Lucero is an alum of Penn State University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to working in higher education, he worked as a high school art teacher at the Chicago Public School’s Northside College Prep.
In 2023, Lucero received the National Art Education Association’s Higher Ed Educator of the Year Award at their annual conference in San Antonio, TX.
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