Robb Lucas (LucRob) was born and raised in Ohio and educated at Oberlin College, the University of Michigan and Teachers College Columbia University. Before moving to New Mexico, he taught piano, pedagogy and arts education at colleges in Alabama, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He has had a life long interest in photography. His first serious photos were of the rodeo at the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial and hikes in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque. He continues his study of photography in the Media Arts Department at the Santa Fe Community College.