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We had a great first rehearsal of our new advanced group, ASU Mariachi Oro del Sol! Here’s to new ventures and spreading the mariachi love further in our community!

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Nature Journaling | Finding Nature's Patterns
Sept 10 | 1 to 2 p.m. | Hayden Library, Naturespace 311E

Have you ever wondered what kind of patterns form in nature? Discover nature's patterns through journaling. Take a deeper look into the natural world by drawing and writing in a journal at Naturespace in Hayden Library. We will discover the similarities between species to learn more about the creatures that share our world. Come by Naturespace and explore the many patterns found on planet Earth. We can provide you with a journal or bring your own.

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2024 New Graduate Exhibition + Slide Slam
Sept 10 to Oct 3 | Harry Wood Gallery
Reception | 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Slide Slam | 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Harry Wood Gallery is excited to present the New Graduate Exhibition + Slide Slam, an annual exhibition and event featuring work and research by incoming graduate students within the School of Art. This opening event coincides with the New Grad Slide Slam, a PechaKucha-style presentation—6 slides in 3 minutes—where all grads (MFA/MA/PhD) introduce themselves, their work, and interests in Neeb Hall to the friendly audience of their colleagues, staff, and faculty.

Participating artists:
Ruth Aragón
Reginald Ayivor
Delaney Gardner-Sweeney
Meg Gizzi
Jace Hermanto
Celina Hernandez
Dawn Kushner
Alejandro "Luperca" Morales
Ian Solaski

Images courtesy of the artists.

We are excited to share our Fall 2024 season with you all! We hope to see you at one of our concerts this semester!

ASU’s Music Theatre and Opera program is proud to present the 2024-25 season of productions as part of ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre!

Learn more and get dates and showtimes: https://ow.ly/TKiH50ThKTr

Notes on Motherhood
Sept 7 to Jan 12 | ASU Art Museum
Opening reception | Sept 7 | 6 to 8 p.m.

Notes on Motherhood” explores various stages of matrescence, or “mother-becoming” –– from birth and caregiving to grief and loss. The exhibition challenges the narrow depictions of mothers and mothering within art history and visual culture. Drawing from the museum’s dynamic collection, the presentation assesses the presence and absence of nuanced, complex portrayals of motherhood. Often, maternity is viewed through a male gaze, with the image of the Madonna and Child dominating the experience. Alongside selections from the collection, the exhibition inserts voices and perspectives traditionally left out. Regional women-identified artists, such as Megan Driving Hawk (United States, b. 1988), Gabriela Muñoz (United States, b. Mexico 1980) and Ashley Czajkowski (United States, b. 1986), each offer a unique perspective on mothering, thereby expanding upon the limited understandings of birth, nurturing and unseen domestic labor.

Image: "Rites of Passage," Video Still by Ashley Czajkowski.

Like Dust
Aug 16 to Sept 15 | Modified Arts
Closing event | Sep 14 | 5 to 9 p.m.

Modified Arts is excited to present “Like Dust,” a group exhibition of work by recent Eye Lounge alumni Kat Davis, Mikey Foster Estes, Shorty Greene and Hyewon Yoon.

Dust is a whisper across time—a mundane dance of dead skin cells, dirt particles and microscopic fibers collecting in the corner, yet also a mechanism of geologic and cosmic time that extends beyond the scope of humanity. Encompassing a range of materials and approaches, from paintings and works on paper to found photographs and readymade sculptures, these four artists explore personal and collective memory, examining the relationship between the past, present and potential futures.

Kat Davis excavates displaced memories from the bins and photo albums of antique stores, reinterpreting forgotten and imagined histories across cultures and generations. With an economy of means, Mikey Foster Estes tinkers with digital and physical traces of the past, reflecting on the materiality of memory and the tension between preservation and decay. Shorty Greene challenges traditional notions of belonging, combining photography, collage, printmaking and text to explore Black female identity, history and intimacy. Using mountains as a motif, Hyewon Yoon meticulously applies layers of acrylics and hole-punched patterns, evoking the longing for home, a connection to the past and the promise of an uncharted future.

The works in this exhibition invite reflection and reconsideration. By incorporating found objects, repurposed materials and layered imagery, these artists reveal a quasi-quantum entanglement with the distant, discarded and displaced.

Images courtesy of the artists.

Angela Ellsworth and Raphaelle Goethal | Under the Liquid Sky
Sept 6 to Oct 6 | Turner Carroll Gallery | Santa Fe, New Mexico

Professor Ellsworth presents a two-person exhibition with abstract encaustic painter Raphaelle Goethal. Goethal's work creates a quiet, poetic space for viewers to lose themselves in the vastness of space connecting natural elements of water, air, fire, and earth. Ellsworth features a recent series of sculptural headpieces in response to the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade. By using tens of thousands of corsage pins, Ellsworth reimagines a group of self-identified women as fierce comrades in the battle for reproductive justice.

Image: Angela Ellsworth, “In Memory of our Sisters (Suzanne),” 25,088 black, pewter, white corsage pins and boutonnière pins, wood, fabric, steel, 65" x 25" x 28", 2024.

Assistant Professor Jaime Kirtz and the AI Ethics Workgroup

"As artificial intelligence becomes more ubiquitous in our everyday lives, the AI and Ethics Workgroup at Arizona State University's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is working to establish ethical guidelines and frameworks for the deployment of AI technologies.

Composed of experts from a variety of fields, the workgroup is dedicated to navigating the complex ethical challenges arising from rapid advancements in AI. The group published their first white paper earlier this month, which focuses on the use of AI tools in higher education."

Learn more here: news.asu.edu/20240903-science-and-technology-asu-workgroup-addresses-ethical-questions-about-use-ai-higher-ed

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The House at the Beginning of Time Exhibition

🗓️ When: Monday, Sept. 16, 2024
🕔 Time: 5 - 6 p.m.
📍 Where: Gallery 100, 65 East University Drive, Tempe, AZ 85281

This exhibition showcases the creative culmination of 2nd and 3rd-year architecture students, under the direction of Julia Lopez, who collaborated with the residents of Mirabella at ASU. Through a series of workshops and deep conversations, students explored the rich dialogue between memory, time, and architectural innovation, inspired by Douglas Darden’s “House at the End of Time.”

Art education faculty receives grant, honors from the Center for Craft

Assistant Teaching Professor, Carolyn Hazel Drake has been named part of the 2024 Teaching Artist Cohort. The Center for Craft recently awarded a dynamic group of 20 mid-career craft artists who teach a one-time, unrestricted grant of $10,000 each.

This program's goals are to provide craft artists opportunities and resources that help sustain a generative practice, to support craft artists in continuing their teaching practice and create an enriching impact on the communities they engage and to develop and strengthen networks of craft artists through peer-to peer learning and connection.

This program is funded by the Windgate Foundation.

Inage credit: Michael Brooks.

🌟🚀 See how The Design School's industrial design program is making waves in health and well-being design!

In a recent Makelab case study, explore how the IND622 Advanced Industrial Design Studio IV, led by Dosun Shin, utilized Vision-Controlled Jetting (VCJ) Multi-Material 3D Printing to develop innovative products that enhance health and well-being. discover standout student projects and learn how industry partnerships are transforming education.

https://www.makelab.com/post/case-study-advancing-health-and-well-being-design-with-vision-controlled-jetting-multi-material-3d-printing-technology

New MFA receives award in contemporary sculpture

Reginald Ayivor has been Selected as one of the International Sculpture Center's 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award recipients.

The International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award was founded in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and encourage their continued commitment to the field of sculpture, as well as to recognize the award recipients' faculty sponsors and their institutions.

The winning piece (left), "Death Within," is one of Ayivor's graduating thesis exhibition pieces from Eastern Illinois University. Ayivor is a new addition to the ASU MFA program and works primarily in wood and metal.

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Lauren Ruffin, professor of practice with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering will join University of California, Santa Barbara in September during their “Innovation, Culture, and Creativity” series of workshops funded by the National Science Foundation. The seven regional workshops, “convene diverse, multidisciplinary groups of experts and stakeholders with backgrounds in STEM and/or in the production and study of culture, including the academic arts and humanities and the creative industries.”

Ruffin will serve as one of the leads for a workshop in Detroit, Michigan on “Design Justice.” This one and a half day Design Justice Futures workshop and DiscoTech for discovering design will provide an opportunity for community workers, local business leaders, artists, designers, researchers, and activists to imagine and develop plans to shift decision making power and resources in design to be held by the communities they serve. Rather than host a traditional workshop with panels and paper presentations, this workshop seeks to engage attendees with a design justice framework that encourages active participation and generative thinking.

Learn more at links.asu.edu/Ruffin-ICC

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2025 Namingha Institute Accepting Applications
Deadline to apply | Jan 13

The Museum of Northern Arizona invites emerging artists to apply for a two-week, paid residency at MNA. Students will study with Master Artists Dan and Arlo Namingha.

The 2025 Namingha Institute will be held from April 27 to May 11. Throughout the two-week residency, students will participate in classes with Master Artists Dan and Arlo Namingha on the Museum of Northern Arizona campus. Residents will stay in rustic cabins near the studio and receive a $1,500 stipend. The Namingha Institute is open to all artists 18 or older.

Follow the link in our bio to apply.

For more information, please contact Education Manager Sacha Siskonen at [email protected] or at 928-774-5211 ext 217.

PhD candidate Rachel Kaye and students at Meteor Studio are gaining hands-on experience in developing virtual reality courses for hurricane studies and meteorology. Students collaborate with experts across fields like composition, animation, VR, software programming, and gaming—and even get featured on the news! Watch this video from AZ Family to learn more!

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Watch the video here: links.asu.edu/Kaye-AZFamily

Fourteen ASU students have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year! 🎉

These scholarships will allow students to engage in independent study, research, teaching, graduate study or artistic practice as part of the world’s most prestigious educational exchange fellowship program.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/Eo6A50T9lOV