Ballet Arizona s “Juan Gabriel,” the ballet/rock concert choreographed to the video of the artist s 1990 Bellas Artes performance, returns to Phoenix Symphony Hall. Inspired by …
“The experience is quite different than simply looking at a static piece of art on a wall,” explains John Featherstone, who conceived the idea and worked with more than 100 creatives to make it happen.
Two of Featherstone’s daughters attended ASU, which got him wondering how students with the school’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts would fare during the pandemic. He’s well-versed in visual culture, as a partner and principal with an international lighting, media, and visual design firm called Lightswitch.
“Museums, theme parks, concert halls, and immersive experiences were all getting cut off from the knees,” he recalls of early COVID-19 days. “I realized that a whole bunch of students might not be getting experiences in the real world the way they had before, and some might graduate without doing a show or having a portfolio.”
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Weining Ai was awarded the annual Stephen G. Walker Graduate Support Fellowship from the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University for the 2020–21 academic year.
The fund for this award was established by former School of Politics and Global Studies students in honor of Emeritus Professor Stephen Walker, who was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science from 1969 until his retirement in 2003. It is intended to support students studying international relations and foreign policy in particular. Weining Ai
Subscribe I m so pleased Weining Ai has been chosen for the Walker Award this year, said Ai s adviser, ASU Professor Cameron Thies. His research is theoretically and empirically rich, and it spans foreign policy analysis and international relations. This is very much in keeping with the scholarship of the award s namesake.