Jorge Lucero - Critical Pedagogy and Listening

Artist Jorge Lucero is Full Professor of Art Education in the School of Art + Design. For eight years he was the Chair of the Art Education Program. Now he serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Lucero studied at the Pennsylvania State University and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Prior to being at the University of Illinois, he happily taught art and art history at the Chicago Public School Northside College Prep. Jorge Lucero has performed, published, lectured, exhibited, and taught widely in the United States and abroad.

In 2023, Lucero was named the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) Higher Ed Educator of the Year.

‘Conceptual Art and Teaching’ is a project initiated by Jorge Lucero who joins Hannah Kemp-Welch for the tenth episode of Ways of Listening to consider listening within critical pedagogy and as a daily practice.

He draws attention to both the humility and the ‘slowness’ needed for listening.