Presently, Lon Gordon is a professor and the Artist in Residence at the Illinois State University – College of Fine Arts with an M.F.A from the University of Wisconsin and a B.F.A. from the University of Texas. In addition, Lon Gordon has impressive educational credentials and fellowships as well as the privilege of having gone to a number of tours to several countries courtesy of the United States Information Agency.
Apart from these, other accomplishments of Lon Gordon includes creating a body of over 150 art-dance-theater works for commissioning sponsors as diverse as the World Exposition, Osaka, Japan; Cultural Dancers of Malaysia; Museum of Modern Arts, Stockholm; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Art, Japan; Star Dancers Ballet of Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Northwestern University; Concert Dance, Inc.; Northeastern Illinois University; Chicago Moving Company; Free Street Theater; Southern Repertory Theater; Five College Moving Company, Kanopy Dance, and the Ruth Page Foundation.
Moreover, Lon Joseph Gordon received the Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship in 1979. In 1980, he was able to complete his Master of Classical Japanese Dance – Cultural Studies from the Nishikawa School as the first non-Japanese graduated. Furthermore, Lon Gordon also began his first studies of Bugaku and Gagaku with Kiyohiko Yamada within the Imperial Household School of Music and Dance in 1979.