Creativity across the region
Growing, engaging and mirroring our communities
With more than 8,000 artists, designers and scholars working, teaching and learning together across six schools and a first-class art museum, the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is a creative city within Arizona State University – and that creativity reaches beyond the borders of ASU’s Tempe campus. The Herberger Institute connects to places across the region through its partnerships, programming and physical presence at sites throughout Arizona and in California.
Explore our locations
ASU Tempe campus
Anchoring all of our locations, the ASU Tempe campus is home to most of the Herberger Institute’s degree programs. In addition to academic buildings, the ASU Art Museum, and world-class venues and facilities in the design and arts district on the main campus, this location is in the heart of the thriving arts and culture scene of downtown Tempe.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is one of the most important cultural cities in the world. This Herberger Institute's creative community in LA includes a partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, alumni relations, industry connections, degree programs at the ASU California Center in fashion, film, design, narrative and emerging media, and more.
Downtown Phoenix
All of the School of Art MFA candidates have studio spaces in the Warehouse District, and the School of Music, Dance and Theatre's Popular Music program is housed at ASU’s Fusion on First building in downtown Phoenix. Fusion on First is also one of two locations for ASU FIDM fashion students, who can study in Phoenix or in LA.
Mesa, Arizona
In Mesa, Arizona, the state-of-the art Media and Immersive eXperience Center houses The Sidney Poitier New American Film School's production and post-production programs and top-ranked programs in digital media technology, worldbuilding, experience design and gaming from The Design School and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering.