The Herberger College School of Music welcomed, as part of the Katherine K. Herberger Visiting Artists program, its first visiting quartet in residence in the fall 2005. The St. Lawrence String Quartet has been lauded as “provocative and brilliant” and “one of the great quartets of our lifetime” by The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Photo: Marco Borggreve
As visiting quartet in residence, the Grammy-nominated ensemble presented concerts, master classes and open rehearsals, in addition to working with students on themed projects. Students gained information, insight and tools of the trade, while at the same time, they were inspired and encouraged by the experience.
“Their enthusiasm for music and for reaching out to their audiences make them natural teachers, and they perform with the highest level of artistry and precision,” said Jonathan Swartz, artistic director of the visiting quartet residency at the School of Music. “The idea is to have a different major professional string quartet in residence each year to give our students the opportunity to work and develop a relationship with four different major professional string quartets over the course of an undergraduate degree at ASU.”
Unlike other institutions, the idea is different from having a permanent quartet in residence or having groups visit only once. “This residency is designed with the intent of planning the future quartet residencies five years in advance, so we can customize projects and curricula accordingly,” Swartz said.
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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.