A community-created exhibition for George Floyd–Herberger Institute highlights from January 2024
Futuristic art in Mesa
Ana Herruzo, associate professor of immersive experience design, talks about her latest art project, Sentient Resonance, for the new Mesa City Hall. This digital art piece will present everchanging visuals that reflect real-time data generated by the local environment, the community and city government operations. Herruzo is associate professor in The Design School and in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and a coordinator of MIX Center programs.
‘You can make anything happen’
ASU FIDM student Raina Dowler recently helped the ASU FIDM Museum gallery team prepare for an exhibition featuring award-winning designer Holly Waddington’s costumes from the film “Poor Things.”
“Working with Holly really showed me that you can make anything happen if you just put your mind to it,” Dowler said.
Dowler joined other ASU FIDM students for a special tour of the exhibition led by Waddington, who answered questions for the students.
Healing America through art
Maria Rosario Jackson believes we can solve problems and create healthy communities by integrating art into all areas of policy and public life, from public health and transportation to housing and community development. Jackson is a Herberger Institute Professor currently on leave since she took office as President Joe Biden’s pick to chair the National Endowment for the Arts in 2022.
Spotlight on ASU Art Museum
Southwest Contemporary explores how the protest following the death of George Floyd led to a community-created exhibition now showing at the ASU Art Museum. The ASU Art Museum exhibition “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix” is the first formal museum exhibition featuring a vast selection of objects left at the Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020.
In pictures
School of Music, Dance and Theatre faculty, staff and students in the school’s Music Theatre and Opera program participated in the National Opera Association’s annual conference, which was hosted at ASU. In addition to helping organize the event, they performed, participated in competitions and spoke on panels. The conference also featured School of Music, Dance and Theatre alum Kathleen Kelly, who spoke about how the opera world is changing as modern compositions are increasingly embraced.
