Gallery of student work
Roden Crater is an extraordinary learning laboratory like nothing that has ever existed. ASU is building a learning enterprise around this singular, masterful work of art and asking the question,
“How can this drive generations of future learners and scholars to think and create in response to it?”
Student projects from the Indigenous Stories and Sky Science field lab
Dalla Costa, Wanda (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Indigenous Stories and Sky Science (taught by Wanda Dalla Costa)
Roden Crater is situated in the territorial homelands of at least eight Arizona tribes. To honor local history and the continued practice of Indigenous sky science in the southwest, the field lab Indigenous Stories and Sky Science will view the Crater through the lens of Indigeneity. The students, who went on a five-day journey to Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, meeting locals, interacting with place and touring sites of sky observation, shared their experience using the four knowledges of community resilience: empirical, traditional, revealed and contemporary (From Johnson, et al. (2015). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods).
Student and faculty panel discussion
Students and faculty participate in a panel discussion at the student showcase on April 29, 2019 in Marston Theater at Arizona State University.
At our feet, above our heads
Weber, Eliza (Creator), Lee, Christine (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Art and Sensory Acuity (taught by Christine Lee)
For the course Art and Sensory Acuity, we looked at how our perception and ability to experience a range of sensation can inform the creation of artistic and design based work. We explored perception through the lens of artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, under which specific materials, environment, and conditions present, shaped our sensory experience. Concurrently we expanded our sensory acuity through engagement with guest speakers ASU Assoc. Professor Patrick Young and Assist. Professor Christy Spackman, Ed Krupp Director of Griffith Observatory, and writer Lawrence Weschler, to develop a deeper sensibility across media, time and space. The resulting sculptural forms/prototypes, performance, and installations were designed and constructed in response to the collective experience.
Student projects from the Indigenous Stories and Sky Science field lab
Ubhe, Aishwarya (Creator), Dalla Costa, Wanda (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Indigenous Stories and Sky Science (taught by Wanda Dalla Costa)
Roden Crater is situated in the territorial homelands of at least eight Arizona tribes. To honor local history and the continued practice of Indigenous sky science in the southwest, the field lab Indigenous Stories and Sky Science will view the Crater through the lens of Indigeneity. The students, who went on a five-day journey to Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, meeting locals, interacting with place and touring sites of sky observation, shared their experience using the four knowledges of community resilience: empirical, traditional, revealed and contemporary (From Johnson, et al. (2015). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods).
Student projects from the Indigenous Stories and Sky Science field lab
Khandelwal, Megha (Creator), Dalla Costa, Wanda (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Indigenous Stories and Sky Science (taught by Wanda Dalla Costa)
Roden Crater is situated in the territorial homelands of at least eight Arizona tribes. To honor local history and the continued practice of Indigenous sky science in the southwest, the field lab Indigenous Stories and Sky Science will view the Crater through the lens of Indigeneity. The students, who went on a five-day journey to Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, meeting locals, interacting with place and touring sites of sky observation, shared their experience using the four knowledges of community resilience: empirical, traditional, revealed and contemporary (From Johnson, et al. (2015). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods).
Live Performance in Marston Theater
Movahed, Neda Y (Creator), Rosengren, Danica (Creator), Lee, Christine (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Art and Sensory Acuity (taught by Christine Lee)
For the course Art and Sensory Acuity, we looked at how our perception and ability to experience a range of sensation can inform the creation of artistic and design based work. We explored perception through the lens of artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, under which specific materials, environment, and conditions present, shaped our sensory experience. Concurrently we expanded our sensory acuity through engagement with guest speakers ASU Assoc. Professor Patrick Young and Assist. Professor Christy Spackman, Ed Krupp Director of Griffith Observatory, and writer Lawrence Weschler, to develop a deeper sensibility across media, time and space. The resulting sculptural forms/prototypes, performance, and installations were designed and constructed in response to the collective experience.
Untitled (Figure / Ground)
Hoste, Benjamin (Creator), Collins, Daniel (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Curating Stories and Science in Northern Arizona (taught by Daniel Collins)
In the seminar Curating Stories and Science in Northern Arizona, students worked individually and collectively to create a “research compendium” inspired by James Turrell’s Roden Crater. Marked by the intersection of science and art, our discussions included experts from astrophysics, literature, sacred architecture, natural history, cultural geography, Native American studies, perceptual psychology, phenomenology, archaeology, and fine art. Students generated a rich collection of works representing many disciplines and methodological approaches. Roden Crater has become a launching pad for our own embodied experience of place—from the microscopic features of the Arizona landscape to interstellar space.
Memory Wave
Knowles, Lucas J. (Creator), Lee, Christine (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Art and Sensory Acuity (taught by Christine Lee)
For the course Art and Sensory Acuity, we looked at how our perception and ability to experience a range of sensation can inform the creation of artistic and design based work. We explored perception through the lens of artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, under which specific materials, environment, and conditions present, shaped our sensory experience. Concurrently we expanded our sensory acuity through engagement with guest speakers ASU Assoc. Professor Patrick Young and Assist. Professor Christy Spackman, Ed Krupp Director of Griffith Observatory, and writer Lawrence Weschler, to develop a deeper sensibility across media, time and space. The resulting sculptural forms/prototypes, performance, and installations were designed and constructed in response to the collective experience.
Light Field Notes
Wasserman, Sherri (Creator), Gonzalez, Stephanie (Creator), Vo, Sammantha (Creator), Vasquez, Emiddio (Creator), Finn, Ed, 1980- (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Approaches, to Light (Taught by Edward Finn)
Approaches to Light traced the fundamental questions of James Turrell’s work to their origins in philosophy, literature, physics, and art. By engaging with light as a medium for human imagination, we explored the ways in which we make meaning from the physical universe and the aesthetic frames we impose on it. Students created their own artistic expressions of light, landscape, and imagination in the form of physical artifacts, audiovisual experiences, and other vessels of meaning that responded to the work of Turrell and Roden Crater.
Room of Luminant Meaning
Clark, Lia (Creator), Lee, Christine (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Art and Sensory Acuity (taught by Christine Lee)
For the course Art and Sensory Acuity, we looked at how our perception and ability to experience a range of sensation can inform the creation of artistic and design based work. We explored perception through the lens of artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, under which specific materials, environment, and conditions present, shaped our sensory experience. Concurrently we expanded our sensory acuity through engagement with guest speakers ASU Assoc. Professor Patrick Young and Assist. Professor Christy Spackman, Ed Krupp Director of Griffith Observatory, and writer Lawrence Weschler, to develop a deeper sensibility across media, time and space. The resulting sculptural forms/prototypes, performance, and installations were designed and constructed in response to the collective experience.
Pigments Derived From the Painted Desert
Knight, Thomas (Creator), Lee, Christine (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Art and Sensory Acuity (taught by Christine Lee)
For the course Art and Sensory Acuity, we looked at how our perception and ability to experience a range of sensation can inform the creation of artistic and design based work. We explored perception through the lens of artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, under which specific materials, environment, and conditions present, shaped our sensory experience. Concurrently we expanded our sensory acuity through engagement with guest speakers ASU Assoc. Professor Patrick Young and Assist. Professor Christy Spackman, Ed Krupp Director of Griffith Observatory, and writer Lawrence Weschler, to develop a deeper sensibility across media, time and space. The resulting sculptural forms/prototypes, performance, and installations were designed and constructed in response to the collective experience.
Espejo de Luz
Stratford, Madison (Creator), Lee, Christine (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Art and Sensory Acuity (taught by Christine Lee)
For the course Art and Sensory Acuity, we looked at how our perception and ability to experience a range of sensation can inform the creation of artistic and design based work. We explored perception through the lens of artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, under which specific materials, environment, and conditions present, shaped our sensory experience. Concurrently we expanded our sensory acuity through engagement with guest speakers ASU Assoc. Professor Patrick Young and Assist. Professor Christy Spackman, Ed Krupp Director of Griffith Observatory, and writer Lawrence Weschler, to develop a deeper sensibility across media, time and space. The resulting sculptural forms/prototypes, performance, and installations were designed and constructed in response to the collective experience.
Suspended Topography
Nokes, Xavier (Creator), Finn, Ed, 1980- (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Approaches, to Light (Taught by Edward Finn)
Approaches to Light traced the fundamental questions of James Turrell’s work to their origins in philosophy, literature, physics, and art. By engaging with light as a medium for human imagination, we explored the ways in which we make meaning from the physical universe and the aesthetic frames we impose on it. Students created their own artistic expressions of light, landscape, and imagination in the form of physical artifacts, audiovisual experiences, and other vessels of meaning that responded to the work of Turrell and Roden Crater.
Approaches to Light
Miller, Nina (Creator), Finn, Ed, 1980- (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Approaches, to Light (Taught by Edward Finn)
Approaches to Light traced the fundamental questions of James Turrell’s work to their origins in philosophy, literature, physics, and art. By engaging with light as a medium for human imagination, we explored the ways in which we make meaning from the physical universe and the aesthetic frames we impose on it. Students created their own artistic expressions of light, landscape, and imagination in the form of physical artifacts, audiovisual experiences, and other vessels of meaning that responded to the work of Turrell and Roden Crater.
Seed bombs
Cooper, Brandi Lee (Creator), Collins, Daniel (Teacher)
Spring 2019 Course: Curating Stories and Science in Northern Arizona (taught by Daniel Collins)
In the seminar Curating Stories and Science in Northern Arizona, students worked individually and collectively to create a “research compendium” inspired by James Turrell’s Roden Crater. Marked by the intersection of science and art, our discussions included experts from astrophysics, literature, sacred architecture, natural history, cultural geography, Native American studies, perceptual psychology, phenomenology, archaeology, and fine art. Students generated a rich collection of works representing many disciplines and methodological approaches. Roden Crater has become a launching pad for our own embodied experience of place—from the microscopic features of the Arizona landscape to interstellar space.
Immersion
Harris, Yolande (Creator), Koven, Mark (Creator), Ringenbach, Calvin (Creator), Sagheb, Shahab (Creator), Collins, Daniel (Teacher, Creator)
Spring 2019 Course: Curating Stories and Science in Northern Arizona (taught by Daniel Collins)
In the seminar Curating Stories and Science in Northern Arizona, students worked individually and collectively to create a “research compendium” inspired by James Turrell’s Roden Crater. Marked by the intersection of science and art, our discussions included experts from astrophysics, literature, sacred architecture, natural history, cultural geography, Native American studies, perceptual psychology, phenomenology, archaeology, and fine art. Students generated a rich collection of works representing many disciplines and methodological approaches. Roden Crater has become a launching pad for our own embodied experience of place—from the microscopic features of the Arizona landscape to interstellar space.