Profiles in "Creative Placemaking" Expertise Area

  • Hayes is a musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments, whose research centers around embodied and enactive music cognition, and audio-haptic technologies.
  • As an international clinician, solo performer, and advocate for music education, Swoboda has presented and performed at prestigious conferences and meetings. She is an Eastman tuba artist.
  • Fahlman's interests include public art, American modernism, the New Deal, industrial archeology and the art history of Arizona.
  • Collaborating with individuals and communities on aesthetic responses to social challenges, artist, educator Gregory Sale creates large-scale public projects, including Future IDs at Alcatraz (2018-19) in San Francisco Bay.
  • Meissinger currently supervises one of the largest watercolor and water-based media art programs in the country.
  • Anand's projects, informed by a background in ecology and geology, often explore material culture, body/land relations and issues of interdependency/boundary.
  • Kocour is a jazz pianist, a Hammond B3 organist and composer. He also serves as director of jazz studies at ASU. An active performer for more than three decades, Kocour has appeared at venues around the world.
  • Heather Green's research examines more-than-human encounters in the intertidal and ecological narratives of abundance and loss on a small headland in the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico.