Facts
Dean + Director
Kwang-Wu Kim, since Aug. 1, 2006
Academic disciplines
School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
School of Art
School of Dance
School of Design Innovation
School of Music
School of Theatre and Film
School of Arts, Media + Engineering (AME)
Research Areas
ASU
Art Museum
Herberger Institute Research Center
F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU
Directors
Darren Petrucci, School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
Adriene Jenik, School of Art
Thanassis Rikakis, School of Arts, Media + Engineering
Simon Dove, School of Dance
Lauren E. McDermott, School of Design Innovation
Kimberly Marshall, School of Music
Linda Essig, School of Theatre and Film
Heather Lineberry, Interim Director, ASU Art Museum
Faculty and Faculty Associates
410
Staff
140
Students
More than 5,800 design and arts students attend annually (80 percent are undergraduates and 20 percent are graduate students). Majors in design and the arts complete approximately 80,000 credit hours annually.
Exhibitions, Lectures + Performances
More than 1,000 events reach an estimated half-a-million people annually. Learn more
Community Connections
More than 25,000 Valley residents annually are engaged in design and the arts through the institute's collaborations with schools, community organizations, city governments and businesses. Learn more
Facilities
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts has a number of extraordinary facilities furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. Learn more
Museum
Named "the single most impressive venue for contemporary art in Arizona" by Art in America magazine, the ASU Art Museum collection comprises 12,486 pieces of art, including 234 works by 84 Cuban artists—the most important collection of contemporary Cuban art outside the island. Learn more
History
In 2009, the Arizona Board of Regents approved the creation of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts by merging the College of Design with the Herberger College of the Arts. Both the College of Design and the College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University were founded in 1964 and welcomed their first class of students at the beginning of fall semester, 1965. Learn more
The Herberger Name
In 2000, the College of Fine Arts was named The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts, in honor of Valley arts philanthropist Katherine K. "Kax" Herberger. In 2007, the name changed to Herberger College of the Arts. Learn more