Keynote Speaker | Thursday 6 November 2025
Jorge Lucero is a Chicago artist currently serving as the Anthony J. Petullo Professor of Art Education in the School of Art & Design, and as Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, both at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
His book works include What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art and Teaching? with Catalina Hernandez-Cabal; Experiments in Arts Research, with Travis, Smith, and Hernandez-Cabal; Teacher as Artist-in-Residence: The most Radical form of Expression to ever Exist; and Conceptualist Permissions for Teacher Posture, among others.
Lucero has exhibited, performed, published, and taught through his work all over the U.S. and abroad. In 2023, he was named the National Art Education Association’s Higher Education Educator of the Year.
Lucero is an alum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Penn State University. Prior to being in higher education, he taught at the Chicago Public School, Northside College Prep.