ASU ranks №12 in visual and performing arts research and more–Herberger Institute highlights from February 2022
Keeping jazz dance alive
TODAY with Hoda & Jenna featured award-winning dancer and choreographer LaTasha Barnes, assistant professor of dance in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, in its Together We Rise series.
Re-imagining the role of arts in healthy communities
Maria Rosario Jackson is taking over the nation’s top arts agency just as arts organizations are working to re-emerge from the pandemic.
Announcing the Honorary Fellow of the RAIC
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has awarded Herberger Institute Professor Wanda Dalla Costa the honorary fellowship for 2022.
Finding new ways to create
Steven Tepper, dean and director of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, spoke with KJZZ, the Phoenix NPR affiliate, about how the pandemic forced creative people to think about their art in different ways.
Undoing Time
“Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration,” an exhibition organized by the ASU Art Museum, will travel to museums nationwide.
Spotlight on students
Zach Smith, a student in the popular music program, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with his dad after going viral on TikTok.
By the numbers
This month’s number is 12! The National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey released its rankings for total research expenditures in 2020, and ASU ranked 12 in visual and performing arts research, ahead of Cornell, UCLA and Harvard.
