Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Mark Klett Excellence in Photography Scholarship

Mark Klett Excellence in Photography Scholarship

Mark Klett Excellence in Photography Scholarship

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Your generosity supports students enrolled at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

This fund honors the work of Mark Klett, a photographer whose background includes working as a geologist before turning to art practice. His interests include making new works that responds to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology. Klett teaches at Arizona State University as a Distinguished Global Futures Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and as a Regents Professor in the School of Art at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Impact of Donor Support

  • More learners can pursue higher education. Thanks to our donors, more than 7,000 ASU students have received upwards of $32 million in scholarships with more than $39 million raised.
  • More students succeed. ASU ranks #1 among the state’s public universities for its 86% first-year retention rate thanks in part to donor-funded student success initiatives.
  • Important initiatives continue. More than $320 million in new gifts and commitments support ongoing initiatives at ASU.
  • The spirit of generosity abounds. In the past year, more than 100,000 individual, corporate and foundation donors stepped forward to help the ASU community.
Mark Klett Excellence in Photography Scholarship
Mark Klett Excellence in Photography Scholarship

Give yourself the gift of art. It’s one of the greatest choices that you can make to enrich your life and expand your philanthropic capacity. Giving to the arts represents an investment in yourself that will yield returns full of meaning, knowledge, and joy. It’s also one of the greatest gifts that you can give AZ. What kind of a public would we be without arts and culture?”

Forrest Solís

School of Art Director & Cristóbal Martínez, School of Art Creative Director

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