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ASU News: Letting in the light: ASU, artist James Turrell to partner on masterwork in the desert

January 14, 2019

Collaboration will make Roden Crater — a creation of light and perception inside a dormant volcano — accessible to many in the future, will add academic...

ASU News: Students showcase the inspiration they discovered at Roden Crater

April 29, 2019

ASU’s partnership with artist James Turrell leads to thought-provoking artwork

ASU News: ASU architecture students experience ‘life-changing’ Roden Crater during housing-design project

March 26, 2020

Class proposes temporary lodging designs that create sense of community for those working on remote large-scale art installation

ARTnews: Higher Education: Arizona State University’s Partnership With James Turrell’s Roden Crater Has Much to Teach Museums

June 18, 2019

When James Turrell flew the skies of Arizona in 1974, not yet acquainted with the volcano that would soon become his life’s work, he piloted his tiny...

The State Press: ASU and James Turrell partnership creates opportunity for student site visits

January 25, 2019

The partnership is hoping to jolt the completion of Roden Crater within the next five years, ultimately opening the site to the public

Phoenix New Times: ASU Partners With James Turrell to Complete Roden Crater Project

January 24, 2019

It looks like ASU President Michael Crow and Kanye West have decided to tag-team on James Turrell’s Roden Crater Project.