Lisbeth Bucci, MS
Lisbeth Bucci is an adjunct associate professor in the MAT in Art Design & Education program and a practicing artist.
Biography
Lisbeth Bucci earned her BS in Art Education from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and her MSEd in Education from Wilkes Barre University, also in Pennsylvania. As a practicing artist, she focuses on 2-D works that include a range of traditional fine art media, and her most current work is primarily mixed media and painting.
Experience
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Over the past 35 years, Bucci has been an art educator in both public and private settings teaching K–12 visual art and arts integration to higher education pre-service students.
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Additionally, she was a K–12 visual art curriculum coordinator and hiring advisor for more than 20 years in public education.
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Bucci is an active member of state and national art and education associations.
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Currently, she is a fellow for the Pennsylvania Art Education Association.
Awards & Accolades
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Bucci was named the 2023 Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA) Outstanding Art Educator of the Year.
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She contributed to Pandemic Pedagogies Anthology, a fall 2021 publication by the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois in Champaign.
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With R. Brewer and C. E. Buchanan, Bucci co-authored “Art Education after DBAE: a K–12 Postmodern Curriculum in Practice” for the 2019 publication Transdisciplinary Inquiry, Practice, and Possibilities in Art Education, Proceedings from the Penn State Seminar @ 50.
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Bucci was recognized as the 2008 PAEA Outstanding Secondary Art Educator of the Year.
‘Small steps can be a pathway for growth and great things!’
I believe that every classroom should be a safe and caring space. I have learned that experimentation, discovery and choice provide a great capacity to empower a student’s curiosity and imagination. I will always strive to be an asset, and never a liability, in education and in life.
