Dear Creative Partners,
When I first arrived at ASU, President Crow challenged me to make the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts a national model for rethinking how artists and designers can influence our world.
Over the last several years, we have recruited prominent thought leaders and artists to join our already world-class and highly ranked faculty. Leaders across the nation are watching to see what we do here, and national funders are beginning to invest in our vision. This is an experiment like no other in the country – and I need the right team of partners to advise and support our efforts.
The Dean’s Creativity Council is a unique opportunity to drive creativity in bold new ways across the campus, the city and beyond. Composed of leaders and advocates in business, the arts and education, the council will directly support groundbreaking innovations from some of the nation’s most talented musicians, directors, filmmakers, artists, choreographers, designers and architects. I’d like to invite you to be one of these critical partners.
As the largest comprehensive design and arts school in the U.S., and as part of the #1 most innovative research university, ASU’s Herberger Institute is uniquely positioned to transform the role and relevance of design and the arts in society – and I have identified you as a potential partner who is uniquely qualified to help realize the transformation.
I hope you’ll join me.
Dean Steven J. Tepper