VASE LECTURES

Thursday, March 25, 2027, 5:30 pm
Center for Creative Photography

No Wasted Moves: On the Pliability of Teaching as a Creative Practice

In this artist’s talk, Jorge Lucero will expand on the pliability of a fully integrated teaching and creative practice. Showcasing major projects from the last twenty-five years, Lucero aims to present the possibility that conceptual art permissions open a path for rethinking how we test the expressive and inquiry potential of everyday institutions and materials we come in contact with.

About the artist

Jorge Lucero is an artist from Chicago currently serving as the Anthony J. Petullo Professor of Art & Design, as well as Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to his college administrative appointment, Lucero served as the UIUC School of Art & Design’s Art Education Program Chair for eight years.

Lucero has exhibited, performed, published, and presented on his work in galleries, schools, publications, conferences, museums, community organizations, performances, and artist residencies nationally and abroad. He received his degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Formerly a Chicago Public School art teacher, Lucero was named an Educator of Distinction by the Illinois Art Education Association in 2021, and in 2023 he was selected as the National Art Education Association’s Higher Education Educator of the Year.

• Instagram: @conceptualartandteaching
• Website: jorgelucero.com

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