The Herberger College of Fine Arts embraced ASU President Michael Crow’s social embeddedness design imperative with the creation of Herberger College for Kids and Herberger College at Large for adults and older teens. The programs offer the community an array of fine arts classes taught by award-winning ASU professors and students.
Summer 2005 launched the Herberger College for Kids summer program and the new Herberger College at Large for older teens and adults. The schools continue to expand their offerings based on community interest.
“In all my years in the world of community arts schools, I’ve never had the opportunity to lead a school with such promise,” said Director Cathy Fletcher, who relocated to Arizona to develop the community schools for the Herberger College. “As we grow and evolve, we hope to be the place for individuals of all ages to become immersed in the arts, hone their skills and find their passion in life.”
Fletcher feels the program’s low student-to-teacher ratios, quality supplies and spaces, and experienced instructors, most of whom are at the master’s and doctoral level, set this program apart from other Valley arts programs.
The Herberger College of Fine Arts has offered the Eleanor Robb Children’s Art Workshop for several years. The popularity of those classes and the growth of the Valley prompted the college to integrate these offerings into a community school setting.
“The need for more arts experiences has grown with Phoenix’s distinction as the fifth largest city in the United States,” said Dean J. Robert Wills. “It’s important that Herberger College shares its resources and award-winning talent with the community so we can help build the capacity for art and culture in the Valley.”
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is established. By 2006, it will have grown to include partnerships at 46 sites, including ArtsBridge, a collaboration among 14 universities in the country partnering with public schools to provide quality K-12 arts education. 
The college is named The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts in recognition of Valley philanthropist Kax Herberger. Her $12 million was the largest personal gift given to the university at the time. Photo: Paolo Vescia. 
Kurt Weiser (art) is named college’s third Regents’ Professor.
Kurt Weiser, Continental Drift, 2005. 
Multi-million dollar gifts by Evelyn Smith and her family endow faculty positions and graduate fellowships throughout the college. Their generosity is recognized with the naming of the Evelyn Smith Music Theatre. The same year David Katzin gives $500,000 to name Katzin Concert Hall and provide endowed programming.
Art in America lists ASU Art Museum as the “single most impressive venue for contemporary art in Arizona.”
Doc Severinsen becomes the first artist to hold the Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists, followed by Gunther Schuller and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
Mark Klett (art) is named the college’s fourth Regents’ Professor. 
ArtWalk, the first alumni art festival becomes an annual fixture of ASU Homecoming.
School of Art M.F.A. program leaps to 13th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Specialty areas also received special recognition: printmaking, ceramics, and photography.
School of Art begins a joint Ph.D. in art history and theory with the University of Arizona.
Graduate programs in Music, Art and Theatre are nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report. 
Professional Connections Office, later to be called
Student Success, is established to aid students in gaining on-the-job experience and post-graduation placement.
The Office of Public Art is created to administer the college’s growing public arts program.
Luis Jimenez, Southwest Pieta, 1987.
The Ceramics Research Center, under the auspices of the ASU Art Museum, is created by the Board of Regents. 
Arts, Media and Engineering experiential media graduate program is created in conjunction with Fulton School of Engineering. 
motione premieres at ASU then debuts in Lincoln Center, garnering repeated coverage in The New York Times.
College initiates certificate program in Public Art.
Stanton Sears and Andrea Myklebust, Prickly/Prickly/Prickly/Prickly/Spiny, 2005.
College celebrates 40th anniversary.