Jason Robert LeClair, M.A.
Artist, Educator, Arts Advocate
Jason Robert LeClair, M.A. is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Rhode Island.
He earned his Master's in Art Education from the University of Florida. He is also an honors graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts with his BFA in Media and Performing Arts. A multi-faceted artist, he is equally comfortable working in pencil, ink, digital and analog paint. Mr. LeClair lives life as an illustrator, author, and educator. His illustration credits include several magazine spots for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Pawtucket Public Library, and the RI Library Association. He has designed sets for over two decades at a variety of venues in Boston, Hartford, and Rhode Island, and has won awards at gallery exhibits for art education.
Mr. LeClair has taught at the Beacon Charter High School for the Arts from 2007 - 2021 and is currently teaching Digital Art and Design at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island. He has also been teaching in the Continuing Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design since 2013 in the Pre-College Program, the Young Artists program, and 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 wrote several 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, and the Providence Rotary Club. He has spoken and taught at the Educational Theatre Association National Conference for Theatre Educators from 2015 to 2020, and at the International Thespian Festival in 2017.
He earned his Master's in Art Education from the University of Florida. He is also an honors graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts with his BFA in Media and Performing Arts. A multi-faceted artist, he is equally comfortable working in pencil, ink, digital and analog paint. Mr. LeClair lives life as an illustrator, author, and educator. His illustration credits include several magazine spots for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Pawtucket Public Library, and the RI Library Association. He has designed sets for over two decades at a variety of venues in Boston, Hartford, and Rhode Island, and has won awards at gallery exhibits for art education.
Mr. LeClair has taught at the Beacon Charter High School for the Arts from 2007 - 2021 and is currently teaching Digital Art and Design at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island. He has also been teaching in the Continuing Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design since 2013 in the Pre-College Program, the Young Artists program, and 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 wrote several 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, and the Providence Rotary Club. He has spoken and taught at the Educational Theatre Association National Conference for Theatre Educators from 2015 to 2020, and at the International Thespian Festival in 2017.