Artist and School of Art professor Muriel Magenta premiered her documentary, 28 WOMEN: A Chance for Independence, at ASU’s Galvin Playhouse in spring 2005.
The documentary is Magenta’s personal response to single mothers who struggle to achieve self-sufficiency and a safe, stable environment for their children. “I am moved by the determination of these women to overcome adversity to make a new life for themselves and their children,” said Magenta.
28 WOMEN features the YWCA Haven House in downtown Phoenix, where Magenta and her graduate students spent three years bringing multimedia experiences and computer skills to the women, while producing footage for the documentary. The residents described their individual pursuits toward self-reliance. They shared their struggles with issues such as completing a basic education to qualify for a job, juggling work and childcare, budgeting and maintaining sobriety.
Magenta has authored a DVD based on the project. It is catalogued in more than 70 university library collections.
The documentary is part of a community partnership between the Herberger College of Fine Arts and the YWCA of Maricopa County. Project sponsors include Herberger College of Fine Arts, ASU Women’s Studies Department and an ASU/Motorola Great Communities Grant.
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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.