Winning the Final Four of Design
An urban revitalization plan developed by ASU graduate students was named a semifinalist in the prestigious Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.
Make No Small Plans
So swift is the growth in the North Phoenix area that the desert is losing ground to development at a rate of one acre per hour. ASU landscape architect Joe ewan is working to preserve some open space against the crush of urban sprawl.
Exploring Life at the Edge
Although Phoenix boasts an extraordinary legacy of desert mountain preserves, the Sonoran Desert is poorly integrated into daily fabric of urban life. ASU landscape architects Joe Ewan and Michael Underhill are working to change that.
Urban Renewal Redux
Like so many downtown neighborhoods across the United States, Seventh Avenue in Phoenix seemed destined for the urban dustbin. But Darren Petrucci believes that good design can help reverse the fortunes of this embattled commercial strip.
Visualizing a Ballpark
Michael Dollin discusses new stadium designs that engage the surrounding community.
Stay in the Room
Ron Carlson sets an example for his students about what being a writer is all about. The message comes through clearly: Writing is work.
One of the Guys
Author Ron Carlson's stories are mostly about guys that other guys like to have a beer with. Carlson himself could be described as one of those guys.
Driven to Write
Meet Melissa Pritchard, author of six books of fiction and a teacher of writing. See her at book store readings and conference presentations, where her theater training comes out with props and some flamboyancy. See her with students, both in the classroom and one-on-one, critiquing their stories firmly but sensitively and offering insights from her experiences in pursuing subject matter, creating a writing process, publishing, and everything in between. Know that when you don't see her she's working--driven to write.
Exploring the Writing Life
Jay Boyer writes, in part, to better understand his students. The ASU English professor says that being a writer is not quite what the movies would make it out to be.
Rewriting Those Awkward Pauses
English Professor Jay Boyer learned just how fascinating awkward pauses can be during the evolution of one of his latest plays.
Cut It Out, That Hurts
Jay Boyer isn't always sure that he can teach people to write. But he does know how to teach people to rewrite.
A Woman's Place
Laura Tohe studies how contemporary Native people maintain the strength of traditional matrilineal cultures in their daily lives, their literature, and their oral storytelling.
Maternal Strength
Excerpt from "There is No Word for Feminism" by Laura Tohe.
Silencing the Native Tongue
In the late 1800s, federally-run Indian boarding schools sought to "civilize" the Native American population by wiping out all traces of their cultures. In "No Parole Today," Laura Tohe writes about the experience of attending Indian Schools as a child in the 1950s.
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Graduate students conduct creative writing workshops with Alzheimer’s patients.
Paper Interiors
In moments, a virtual jungle of twisting microscopic paper fibers ensnarled the imaginations of a group of ASU scientists, engineers and artists. The result: a technology-infused dance performance that set tradition on its ear.
Snow Shoes to Toe Shoes
What does it take to make a prima ballerina? Years of practice? Driving ambition? A long, lean body? Joan Van Dyke says where you live might have an impact, too.
Dancing on Aero
T. J. Maheras combines his expertise in nutrition, exercise science, physiology, and biochemistry to train dancers in a bold new way.
Numbers Help Tell the Story
The numbers show that T. J. Maheras' technique for training dancers improves their overall health.
Plowing Toward Safety
When it comes to operating heavy snow removal equipment, practice makes perfect. Not surprisingly, the regions with the least snowfall do not necessarily have the lowest accident rates.
Is It Good?
ASU students are designing beautiful products that better society with minimal impact on the environment. Best of all, some of them could be coming to a store near you.
Innovative Samples
Students at ASU's InnovationSpace were charged with designing products for aging Baby Boomers and products that help blind people read. Here are the products they developed.
User Friendly Design
ASU honors students design products based on the needs, wants, and expectations of the user.
A Nation Claims Its Voice
Brazil is finally embracing the folk poetry known as "cordel." The poets who write these booklets of verse are at once journalists, storytellers, and commentators. Now these voices of the poor are being heard.
Lampiao in the Backlands
A sample of cordel poetry about the notorious bandit Lampiao.
Writing the Book on Latino Pop Culture
Cordelia Candelaria says the Hispanic population in North America is misunderstood, even among Hispanics. To help change things, she and other ASU scholars have produced the three-volume Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Culture in the United States.
How to Build an Encyclopedia
Cordelia Candelaria describes the process of creating the Encyclopedia of Latina and Lation Popular Culture.
A Peek Inside
Excerpts from the Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States.
Seeing Stars
When Dan Matlaga reads Moby Dick, he sees stars and planets, galaxies and moons in lines and paragraphs that have stumped litarary critics for years.
A Nation Claims Its Voice
Brazil is finally embracing the folk poetry known as "cordel." The poets who write these booklets of verse are at once journalists, storytellers, and commentators. Now these voices of the poor are being heard.
Lampiao in the Backlands
A sample of cordel poetry about the notorious bandit Lampiao.
A Woman's Place
Laura Tohe studies how contemporary Native people maintain the strength of traditional matrilineal cultures in their daily lives, their literature, and their oral storytelling.
Maternal Strength
Excerpt from "There is No Word for Feminism" by Laura Tohe.
Silencing the Native Tongue
In the late 1800s, federally-run Indian boarding schools sought to "civilize" the Native American population by wiping out all traces of their cultures. In "No Parole Today," Laura Tohe writes about the experience of attending Indian Schools as a child in the 1950s.
Evolution Locution
Bert Bender studies Darwin's influence on novelists
The Liberating Power of Darwin's Words
Bert Bender studies how authors use Darwinian theory to support their positions on women's rights.
Collectible Cordel
Mark Curran collects Brazilian cordelian broadsides the way he once collected baseball cards.
Poetry of Strings
Mark Curran is one of world's foremost authorities on the Brazilian Literatura de Cordel, a form of grassroots narrative poetry.
Lisandro Speaks But Inside Himself to His Wife
Poetry by Alberto Rios.
Nani
Poetry by Alberto Rios.
Discovering the Alphabet of Life
Writer and poet Alberto Rios has a personal alphabet that includes letters, words, and images.
Musical Motivation in Health Care
Barbara Crowe helps prepare future music therapists to treat a wide range of clients.
Song of Sensation
Suzanne Oliver describes her role as Sara Romero's music therapist over 14 years.
The Music Within
Sara Romero's social and cognitive abilities improved with music therapy. So did her musical talent.
Digging to the Roots of Rhythm
Mark Sunkett studies and performs African drumming. Music that he says comes from and unites its community.
Drum Families
Folklore that recounts the origination myths of Senegalese ethnic groups hint at the relationships between distinctive music types and cultural differences.
Learning the Language of Drums
Mark Sunkett studies the interconnections between Senegalese ethnic groups and their representative instruments.
Musical Explorer
Morton Subotnick's investment in combining technology and music began at an early age.
Creating New Art Forms
The Institute for Studies in the Arts works with artists, technologists, and scholars to create new art forms, and to use and implement new technologies.
Rhapsody in ROM
Morton Subotnik helps children learn to compose music as easily as they learn to fingerpaint.
Requiem for Singing Geese
Thanks to diligent scholarship, music and song preserved in a rare medieval text is being performed and once again after a 500-year respite.
The Many Facets of PRISM
Work in the Partnership for Research in Stereo Modeling links scholars from fine arts, the sciences, engineering, and the social sciences and allows them to work with 3D data using some of today's most advanced technology.
The Sound of Sound
Richard Lerman, professor in the Institute for Studies in the Arts, is a sound artist. He's found a sonic treasure trove in Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
Good Vibrations
Richard Lerman's interest in site-specific sound installations and soundscapes has resulted in creative recording techniques. His research has led to innovative ways of recording sound that amplify what most of us might never hear.
Technology Takes the Stage
Since when does a stage facility "think" and "perform"? Welcome to the future of the arts.
Musical Explorer
Morton Subotnick's investment in combining technology and music began at an early age.
Creating New Art Forms
The Institute for Studies in the Arts works with artists, technologists, and scholars to create new art forms, and to use and implement new technologies.
Rhapsody in ROM
Morton Subotnik helps children learn to compose music as easily as they learn to fingerpaint.
Giving Riga a High-Tech Voice
Patricia Clark discusses incorporating multimedia into live performance.
Gene Mythology
David Kaye and James Strick explore genetic essentialism, or the idea that who you are is determined by what is in your genes.
Learning From History
James Strick tells a cautionary tale from history to modern geneticists.
Culture-de-Sac
David Busch's experiences in Vietnam led him to study the religions of other cultures.
The Drama of Data
Ethnotheatre brings social science research to life on stage.
Journey to the Center of a Play
William Hoffman and Marshall Mason refine Hoffman's play Riga during an intensive workshop.
Giving Riga a High-Tech Voice
Patricia Clark discusses incorporating multimedia into live performance.
The Real George Washington
No one knows for sure what George Washington looked like, especially when he was young. Now, a group of researchers are working to reconstruct our first president and produce the most realistic replicas of Washington to date.
A Natural Form
Mary Bates Neubauer's new sculptures are developed from sensuous organic forms that belie their true nature. They emerge from statistical evidence, much of it related to forces in our universe.
The Alchemist's Press
Nineteenth-century collotype printing technology produces images unrivaled by today's highest-quality presses. ASU art professor James Hajicek describes the process as "half printmaking, half photography, and half alchemy."
Art. Explained.
Art educators have to know a little about psychology, politics, writing, art-making, and art history. ASU's Mary Erickson is the National Art Educator of the Year. She says that her colleagues also must understand accountability and measurement in teaching.
Touching Mystery
Kurt Weiser finds the serenity of painting a cathartic escape from the physical dance of throwing clay. By day Weiser teaches ceramics to ASU art students. His own work claims the night.
Paper Interiors
In moments, a virtual jungle of twisting microscopic paper fibers ensnarled the imaginations of a group of ASU scientists, engineers and artists. The result: a technology-infused dance performance that set tradition on its ear.
New Deal Legacy
ASU's most recent public sculpture, "Hopi Flute Player," is a New Deal-era art project that was seven decades in the making.
The Changing Color of Art
As a young student, Bernard Young had a tough time finding information about artists of color, even at some of the nation's largest metropolitan libraries. Today, the ASU art professor is writing the books to fill that void.
Remolding the Past
ASU artist Randy Schmidt enjoys breathing new life into old architectural relics.
Guy with a Green Bucket
Randy Schmidt's restoration work at Arizona's state Capitol building involved lots of problem solving.
For the Love of Visual Culture
J. Gray Sweeney’s career is based on making art come alive for his students and for audiences in art museums around the country.
An Art Historian’s Work Is Never Done
J. Gray Sweeney has uncovered a treasure trove of works from artist Gilbert Munger.
Planting Artistic Seeds
The Children's Art Workshop offers quality art instruction using materials and techniques not available in tightly budgeted school districts.
Collectible Cordel
Mark Curran collects Brazilian cordelian broadsides the way he once collected baseball cards.
Excavating McEntee
A major New York art gallery teamed up with Gray Sweeney to showcase the work of 19th-century landscape artist Jervis McEntee.
Frame of Reference
Photographer Mark Klett did not go to Japan with any preconceived ideas about what he might see.
Before the Crowds
Henry Cheever Pratt's painting provided most mid-19th century Americans their first view of what would become metropolitan Phoenix.
Fool the Eye
Thomas Eckert is a sculptor who creates trompe l'oeil objects in wood.
Stretching Reality
Each of Tom Eckert's works is a still life made composed of parts and pieces.
After the Fall
Tamarra Kaida witnesses the renaissance of photography as an art form in Russia.
An Artist's Journey
A chance museum visit affirmed Tamarra Kaida's belief that art existed all around her.
World's Women On-Line!
Muriel Magenta exhibited her interactive cyberspace gallery, The World's Women On-Line at the 1995 United Nations' Conference on Women.
Excerpt from The Other Side of the House, 1988
Excerpt of Rita Dove's poem accompanied by a photograph by Tamarra Kaida
Building the Virtual Gallery
The intense technical support necessary for World's Women On-Line! came from ASU's Information Technology Office.
Excerpt from Tremors From the Faultline, 1989
Photograph and short story by Tamarra Kaida