Highlights from 2023-24

Herberger Institute

ASU California Center

The Herberger Institute continued its expansion to Los Angeles with the first year of its fashion school — ASU FIDM, which operates from both Downtown Phoenix and the ASU California Center in LA — and increasing the number of film degrees offered by The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, which operates in three cities including LA. The ASU California Center was buzzing with activity at the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester when ASU hosted Fall Welcome celebrations for new students at both Grand and Broadway locations, and the spaces continued to welcome current students and faculty, community members, fashion and film enthusiasts and prospective students throughout the year. In March 2024, the Herberger Institute hosted an open house with more than 200 people attending fashion and film workshops across both the Grand and Broadway locations, a keynote panel on how creative industries are being reshaped by artificial intelligence and virtual reality, a panel on careers in the creative industry, and tours of the “Art of Costume Design in Film” exhibition at the ASU FIDM Museum.

ASU-LACMA expansion

In August 2023, ASU announced the Phoenix Art Museum and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art as the latest partners in the ASU-LACMA Master’s Fellowship in Art History and that the Hearst Foundations awarded $200,000 in support of the program. The two museums joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the ASU Art Museum, the Heard Museum and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in a fellowship program that aims to culturally diversify the leadership of art museums in the United States. Learn more about the partnerships and the new fellows that started the program.

¡Viva México!

The ASU Symphony Orchestra, ASU Mariachi and special guest Mariachi Garibaldi De Jaime Cuéllar presented ¡Viva México! in celebration of Mexican Independence Day. The concert was followed by an after party with food trucks, snacks, a live DJ, arts and crafts projects, and lawn and table games. This concert was co-sponsored by ASU Gammage, the ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre and the Herberger Institute Department of Culture and Access. The media sponsor was Telemundo.

INSPIRE

Each year, American Indian high school students gather on campus at Arizona State University — where more than 3,000 Indigenous students are enrolled — for INSPIRE, a no-cost college readiness program offered through the ASU Office of American Indian Initiatives. For the 2023-24 school year, for the first time, the program included a design and arts learning community with faculty from the Herberger Institute leading hands-on creative workshops. Read more.

ASU California Center photos by Travis Hutchison

ASU-LACMA photo courtesy of the ASU Art Museum
MIXibition photos by Laura Segall

¡Viva México! Photos by Tim Trumble

INSPIRE Photo courtesy of the School of Music, Dance and Theatre

Interested in news from the Herberger Institute and its six schools and two museums? Stay up to date at herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/news.

2023-24 by the numbers

Faculty: 683, Staff:256, Students: 8,392

Student demographics 87% undergraduate 13% graduate 42% minority 21%* first generation (undergraduate) 6% international 53% resident 47% non-resident

Degree, minor, and certificate options: 130+

Total research expenditures: $3.5m, Obligated research awards: $12.5m

Externally-sponsored Research expenditures $3.4m

Numbers reflect the 2023-24 academic year. Number of students and student demographics are accurate for Fall 2023. Some numbers and percentages were rounded up.

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