ALL THE ART YOU HAVEN’T IMAGINED YET: A Book of Art Permissions and Curricular Seedlings (BLONOEdition) is a bookwork constructed in its entirety on April 27, 2026, at University Galleries at Illinois State University. Led by Jorge Lucero, 20 creative practitioners (e.g. teachers/artists/scholars) spent an entire day examining contemporary art for its formal and conceptual “permissions”. These permissions were used to expand our collective imagination about what is possible in both teaching and art making. Hundreds of these permissions are catalogued in this bookwork, followed by a collection of 74 seedlings (half formed ideas) that enable curriculum invention by whomever engages with this bookwork. The bookwork also contains two appendixes with the workshop instructions that have been used by Lucero to do this permission finding, for curriculum-invention/artistic-practice, as a daily project.

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With contributions by: Lauren Bachman, Karen Schaschwary Brinker, Nicole Bussan, Christina Dababneh, Julie Hinman, Hannah Johnson, Parker Knisely, Nicole Learned, Sydney Matthews, Adam Maus, Karlie McDonnell, Mary Pfaff, Rachel Ratliff, Tanya Scott, Grace Sheese, Albert Stabler, Thomas Stone, Kassidy Wiskari, and Ellie Zimmer.

Book Designed by Natalia Espinel

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With special thanks to: ISU Professors Albert Stabler and Tim Abel who orchestrated the whole thing alongside District 87 art teacher Karen Brinker, ISU Wonsook Kim School of Art and Design Director Tyler Lotz, University Galleries Director and Chief Curator Kendra Paitz, University Galleries’ Registrar Lisa Lofgren and Curator of Education Tanya Scott, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s School of Art & Design and College of Fine and Applied Arts (for generous funding), and—last but not least—Conceptual Art & Teaching’s two superb research assistants, Natalia Espinel and Ava Maken Ali.