Joshua White
Joshua White received a BFA in Photography from Northern Kentucky University. His work has been exhibited regionally in Ohio and Kentucky, as well as in California and Arizona. He is a graduate student at ASU, majoring in photography. Currently, his research and work are focused on theories of memory, more specifically the deterioration of memory. Focusing on the creation of objects, ranging from glass plate photographs to copper sculptures, his work addresses themes of loss, obsession, futility, and remembrance.
Nic Wiesinger
Nic Wiesinger is a photographer and digital artist pursuing a Masters of Fine Art in the Intermedia Art Department at ASU. He attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, graduating with a Bachelors degree in Secondary Education focusing on Social Studies. Later, he graduated with a Bachelors degree in Photography from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. His interdisciplinary art includes photography, video, audio and performance pieces that comment on the positives and negatives of communication in our digital age.
ASU ArtSpace is a transdiciplinary arts and design afterschool serving the Phoenix area and establishing a new model of arts educational experience aiming to ensure that its students are self-confident, successful in school and proactive in making a positive impact in their community. ArtSpace was launched in Fall 2008 by a partnership between the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Arizona Department of Education. The ASU ArtSpace program places graduate students from all Schools within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at eligible schools to provide transdiciplinary programming focused upon their disciplines and thesis. The graduate students design their own transdisciplinary curriculum in teams of two based upon a global theme such as Time, Place, Communication or Storytelling under the guidance of Melissa McGurgan, the ArtSpace Program Coordinator.
ArtSpace classrooms are treated as creative spaces where students are exposed to a multitude of artforms, skills and collaborative processes and the graduate student instructors are able to test and develop experimental teaching methods, techniques and learning processes incorporating art, design and technology. The pilot semester of ASU ArtSpace took place in Fall 2008 and is now serving 12 schools during the 2009-2010 school year. The ASU ArtSpace program exemplifies the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s charge for universities to form partnerships with local school districts and create a new generation of teachers while establishing ASU as an accessible educational entity which embraces new thinking and approaches to art and design to hundreds of children, families, educators and communities throughout the Valley.
