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Focus on Faculty is a great resource for everyone to quickly discover what is happening with individual Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts faculty members.
Diane Bender, Associate Professor, Program Director of Interior Design, Design
05/8/12
Associate Director and Program Director of Interior Design in The Design School, Diane Bender is the author of Design Portfolios: Moving From Traditional to Digital, 2nd Edition (Fairchild Books, fairchildbooks.com).
Today's students of architecture, interior design and landscape design need to master the art of marketing themselves via both traditional printed and digital portfolios. Bender's book enables students to create portfolios that serve as evolving collections of creative solutions to design problems and evidence of their abilities to visually relay abstract concepts and concrete messages.
The book is used as an introductory textbook in design programs across North America. Addressing issues of creation, maintenance, and presentation with the latest technologies and social media tools, the book guides students through every step of the interview and presentation process from making first contact with practitioners to securing an industry job.
Project Date: May 2012
Sabine Feisst, Associate Professor, Music
04/18/12
Sabine Feisst is an associate professor of music history and literature in the ASU School of Music in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Feisst published the essay “Music as Place, Place as Music: The Sonic Geography of John Luther Adams,” in The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adams, ed. Bernd Herzogenrath (Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2012). Comprising essays by such other authors as Kyle Gann, Peter Garland, Alex Ross, David Rothenberg and Steven Schick, The Farthest Place is the first critical anthology of Adams whom New Yorker critic Alex Ross hailed as “one of the most original musical thinkers of the twentieth century.”
In March she taught an Honors Seminar on Birdsong in Western Music and presented a colloquium on John Luther Adams as part of a two-day residency at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She also delivered a paper on “Ecological Thought in the Works of Maggi Payne and Laurie Spiegel” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music in Charlotte, NC.
Feisst is a 2012 ASU Parents Association Professor of the Year nominee.
Project Date: April 2012
Stephen Marc Smith, Professor, Art
03/21/12
Stephen Marc Smith, professor of photography in the ASU School of Art, exhibited Passage on the Underground Railroad at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Smith's photographs and digital montages explore the history of freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Smith combined contemporary images with historic documents and artifacts to create an exhibit that "brings the past palpably into the present." His exhibit included 87 thought-provoking unconventional and haunting digital images, The exhibit was on display from Jan. 29-March 22, 2012, at the gallery.
Project Date: March 2012
