Facilities

Consumers of the arts and education rarely consider the importance of facilities, unless they are inadequate or missing. To artists, however, the facilities are critical: a dancer cannot perform without a dance floor; a metal sculptor cannot sculpt without a studio and metalworking equipment; a dazzling musical performance will sound adequate without a brilliant concert hall.

The Herberger College of the Arts has a number of extraordinary facilities furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. Particularly noteworthy are the J. Russell and Bonita Nelson Fine Arts Center (designed by Antoine Predock and winner of the 1989 American Institute of Architects Honor Award), Grady Gammage Auditorium (a 3,000 seat concert hall designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), the Dance Studio Theatre and the Music Building, which houses four distinctive performance spaces. Located primarily in the northwest corner of campus, the college facilities make up the university's "arts district," and are adjacent to downtown Tempe.

Here is a listing of Herberger College facilities:

Specialized Teaching Facilities: Visual Resources Collection; Fritts Pipe Organ; Dance Multimedia Learning Center; Barbara Salisbury Wills Child Drama Studio; Ceramics Studio; Electronic Music Classroom; Theatre Scene Shop; Music Composition Computer Lab; Wood Studio; Electronic Piano Lab; Metalworking Studio; Pyracantha Press; Theatre Voice and Movement Studios; Percussion Complex; Directing Studio; Sculpture Studio; ASU Art Museum Print Study Room; Costume Shops for Theatre, Dance and Opera; Fiber Studio; Art Computer Lab and Mediated Teaching Lab.

Concert Halls and Theatres: Grady Gammage (2,797 seats), Katzin Concert Hall (355), Evelyn Smith Music Theatre (502 seats), Organ Hall (156 seats), Recital Hall (150 seats), Paul V. Galvin Playhouse (483 seats), Dance Studio Theatre (247), Lyceum Theatre, (164), Dance Studio 122 (170), FAC Studio 133 (70), Directing Studio (40 seats), Prism Theatre (50 seats), and Barbara Salisbury Wills Child Drama Studio (50 seats).

Research Facilities: ASU Music Library, ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center Susan Harnly Peterson Archive, Dance Video Lab, Intelligent Stage, Digital Arts Ranch, Directing Studio, Barbara Salisbury Wills Child Drama Studio, Sound Research Lab and Multimedia Development Studio.

Museum/Galleries: ASU Art Museum (six galleries, four sculpture courts), Ceramics Research Center (studio gallery and open storage), Northlight Gallery, Harry Wood Gallery, Gallery 100 and Step Gallery.

Sound Studio: Studio 26, a fully equipped sound and recording studio used for composing, assembling and recording concert soundscores for dance performances is located in the Nelson Fine Arts Center. The studio is also used for concert sound production and continuing research.

Individual facility locations:
School of Theatre and Film
Arts, Media and Engineering (AME)
School of Art
Department of Dance
School of Music
ASU Art Museum
Ceramics Research Center