Bruce Hucko
Bruce Hucko is an independent fine art photographer and arts educator who lives in Moab, UT. For over 40 years he's been know as Art Coach! among elementary-aged children in the Four Corners area. He spent 10 years (1978-1989) at Montezuma Creek Elementary on the Utah Navajo Reservation where under his leadership the school received a 1984 Rockefeller Bros. Fund Award for Excellence in Arts Education. He spent an additional 8 years (1992-2000) as Art Coach for the Eight Northern Pueblo Day Schools in Northern New Mexico after serving 2 years as Director of Education at the Wheelwright Museum of the American in Santa Fe. During that time, he published "Where There Is No Name For Art: the Art of Tewa Pueblo Children" that received a 1998 Southwest Book Award and the 1997 Carey McWilliams Award from Multicultural Review for being "an outstanding publication on an aspect of cultural diversity in the United States." He returned home to Moab in 2001, fulfilling publication contracts and teaching photography. From 2008 until 2023, Hucko served as the Beverely Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program Elementary Art Educator for HMK Elementary. Hucko was recognized as the 2015-2016 Elementary School Educator of the Year by the Utah Art Education Association and the 2018 Sorenson Legacy Award for Excellence in Arts Education. He was also the Presidential Invited Guest Speaker at the AAHS 2024 Annual Meeting.
Throughout his arts education career, Bruce maintained an active landscape photography business. Eleven books and 4 interpretive slide programs bear his name. He teaches photography workshops and sells fine art prints. After a long career teaching art to children, Art Coach now teaches it to himself, because there is always time to learn.