Jason Robert LeClair, M.A.
Artist, Educator, Arts Advocate
Jason Robert LeClair has his Masters in Art Education from the University of Florida. He is also an honors graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA with his BFA in Media and Performing Arts. A multi-faceted artist, he is equally comfortable behind a pencil, airbrush, keyboard, or tablesaw, Mr. LeClair lives life as an illustrator, author, set designer, and scenic and mural painter. His illustration credits include several magazine spots for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Pawtucket Public Library and RI Library Association. He has designed sets for over twenty years at a variety of venues in Boston, Hartford and Rhode Island.
Mr. LeClair has taught at the Beacon Charter High School for the Arts from 2007 - 2021 and is currently teaching Digital Arts at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island. He also teaches in the Continuing Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design since 2013 in the Pre-College Program, the Young Artists program, and as of 2024, the Adult Extension program. As a teacher, Mr. LeClair believes in the importance of art theory and the power of art making. Encouraging his students to create works as they discover their own artistic voices is his primary goal. He accomplishes this by teaching art history and theory as the students create. His students have gone on to schools such as RISD, SCAD, AIB, Maine College of Art, Marymount Manhattan, and AMDA. He frequently wrote articles for RI Creative Magazine on topics of arts education and Steampunk. Mr. LeClair has delivered lectures online at the Arts Integration and STEAM conference run by educationcloset.com, RI League of Charter Schools, Providence Rotary, he has spoken and taught at the Educational Theatre Association National Conference for Theatre Educators from 2015 to 2020, and the International Thespian Festival in 2017.
Mr. LeClair has taught at the Beacon Charter High School for the Arts from 2007 - 2021 and is currently teaching Digital Arts at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island. He also teaches in the Continuing Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design since 2013 in the Pre-College Program, the Young Artists program, and as of 2024, the Adult Extension program. As a teacher, Mr. LeClair believes in the importance of art theory and the power of art making. Encouraging his students to create works as they discover their own artistic voices is his primary goal. He accomplishes this by teaching art history and theory as the students create. His students have gone on to schools such as RISD, SCAD, AIB, Maine College of Art, Marymount Manhattan, and AMDA. He frequently wrote articles for RI Creative Magazine on topics of arts education and Steampunk. Mr. LeClair has delivered lectures online at the Arts Integration and STEAM conference run by educationcloset.com, RI League of Charter Schools, Providence Rotary, he has spoken and taught at the Educational Theatre Association National Conference for Theatre Educators from 2015 to 2020, and the International Thespian Festival in 2017.