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The art education program in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Art works with the community both locally and throughout various parts of the world. The faculty and students are very involved in art research within schools and working with the community to enhance the educational tools available to teachers, parents and children.
Mary Erickson is collaborating with the Tempe Center for the Arts and local art teachers to develop online lessons for teachers and parents to use before, during and after visits to the center. With support from a U.S. Department of Education funded grant, she is in her third year working with arts teachers from the Phoenix Union High School District to improve standards-based assessment practices. Erickson continues to collaborate with a team of art teachers from Tempe high school district, Paradise Valley school district and Fountain Hills in a research study designed to determine the effectiveness of integrated art and writing instruction. Also students have worked on projects with the Phoenix Art Museum and the Tempe Center for the Arts Gallery.
Each spring, students in Mary Stokrocki’s ARE 496 spend six to eight weeks documenting instructional strategies and student learning in public and charter schools in the metropolitan Phoenix area. As well, graduate students in Stokrocki's classes do mini-research studies in public schools or alternative art settings. For example, she and a graduate student, Michael Delahunt, conducted action research at his school as part of his curriculum which resulted in the research study “Empowering Elementary Students' Ecological Thinking: Through Discussing the Anime Nausicaa and Making Super Bugs.” Stockrocki’s teaching has expanded to the virtual world through a digital ethnography curriculum.
Bernard Young directs the Eleanor A. Robb Children's Art Workshop. The Children's Art Workshop is an unique community program that has a mission to serve all of the students throughout the Phoenix area that are interested in learning about art. Art education majors that are interested in becoming teachers or working in the art field teach these children. The workshop is part of the art teaching certification program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education. Young works with schools on Indian reservations and others throughout Arizona as well as the College Board and Artists in the Black Community. National organizations include the National Art Education Association, the College Art Association, the United States Society for Education through Art, the International Society for Education through Art and others.