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CHEN LUO                

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Chen Luo is a Graphic Designer based in Maryland. She serves as a thesis adviser at MICA. She has taught at MICA, Tufts SMFA, Boston University, and UMass from 2022 to 2025. Chen is the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice focused on bridging language barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work has been awarded and recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360˚, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States. Her work shares a language of reconfiguring reading/writing gestures into bodily acts, turning static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing forms a diverse readership and communal experience.
Art.edu/China

Publication
2020

Artist or designer as a career is still under-represented and often not preferred by most Chinese parents. In my opinion, the underpaying marginalized designer community in China is systematically resulting from its problematic high school art education. Based on my research and personal experience, I’ve concluded 6 aspects of the issues and strives to find possible solutions with respect to them.
More importantly, I hope this curated book can advocate the urgency of reforming art education in China so that more policymakers and activists can provide more professional practices to ameliorate the marginalization of Chinese high school art students.
Late update in 2025