Institute Resources
Facilities
Facility Descriptions
Consumers of design and the arts rarely consider the importance of facilities, unless they are inadequate or missing. To designers and artists, however, the facilities are critical: a dancer cannot perform without a dance floor; a designer cannot complete a fabrication project without industry standard studio spaces and manufacturing processes; a metal sculptor cannot sculpt without a studio and metalworking equipment; a dazzling musical performance will sound inadequate without a brilliant concert hall.
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts has a number of extraordinary facilities furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. Particularly noteworthy are the J. Russell and Bonita Nelson Fine Arts Center (designed by Antoine Predock and winner of the 1989 American Institute of Architects Honor Award), Grady Gammage Auditorium (a 3,000 seat concert hall designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), the Dance Studio Theatre and the Music Building, which houses four distinctive performance spaces. Located primarily in the northwest corner of campus, the institute facilities make up the university's "design and arts district," and are adjacent to downtown Tempe.
Here is a listing of Herberger Institute facilities:
Specialized Teaching Facilities: Visual Resources Collection; Fritts Pipe Organ; Dance Multimedia Learning Center; Barbara Salisbury Wills Child Drama Studio; Ceramics Studio; Electronic Music Classroom; Theatre Scene Shop; Music Composition Computer Lab; Wood Studio; Electronic Piano Lab; Metalworking Studio; Prototype and Modeling Shop; Pyracantha Press; Theatre Voice and Movement Studios; Percussion Complex; Directing Studio; Sculpture Studio; ASU Art Museum Print Study Room; Costume Shops for Theatre, Dance and Opera; Fiber Studio; Art Computer Lab and Mediated Teaching Lab; Design Media Center; Architecture and Design Digital and Computing Labs.
Concert Halls and Theatres: Grady Gammage (2,797 seats), Katzin Concert Hall (355), Evelyn Smith Music Theatre (502 seats), Organ Hall (156 seats), Recital Hall (150 seats), Paul V. Galvin Playhouse (483 seats), Dance Studio Theatre (247), Lyceum Theatre, (164), Dance Studio 122 (170), FAC Studio 133 (70), Directing Studio (40 seats), Prism Theatre (50 seats), and Barbara Salisbury Wills Child Drama Studio (50 seats).
Research Facilities: ASU Music Library, ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Susan Harnly Peterson Ceramics Archive, Barbara Salisbury Wills Child Drama Studio, Dance Video Lab, Digital Arts Ranch, Directing Studio, F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU, Intelligent Stage, Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, Sound Research Lab and Multimedia Development Studio, Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family.
Museum/Galleries: ASU Art Museum (six galleries, four sculpture courts), Ceramics Research Center (studio gallery and open storage), Gallery 100, Gallery of Design, Harry Wood Gallery, Northlight Gallery and Step Gallery.
Sound Studio: Studio 26, a fully equipped sound and recording studio used for composing, assembling and recording concert soundscores for dance performances is located in the Nelson Fine Arts Center. The studio is also used for concert sound production and continuing research.
Individual facility locations:
School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME)
Architecture and Environmental Design Library
Herberger Institute Research Center