Alan D. Pocaro is an artist, writer, and educator based in Illinois.
Pocaro is currently Professor of Printmaking and Foundations at Eastern Illinois University and formerly adjunct faculty at both the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Miami University. Pocaro is associated with the New Aesthetics movement, an informal group of artists and writers who emphasize the physical and material nature of art.
In addition to numerous catalog essays and articles, Pocaro regularly contributes art criticism to Chicago’s New City magazine, and his writings have been featured in The Chicago Reader, The New Criterion, New American Paintings, artcritcal, AbstractCritical, and ART PAPERS, as well as CityBeat.