Danielle Foushée is Assistant Professor of Design at Arizona State University. Her research, teaching, and practice live at the praxis between communication design, urban environments, and community engagement. She studies visual-rhetorical expressions in public spaces and the resulting dialectics between design <—> culture. Her work is unified by an ethos of Radical Public Service. She founded and directs Phoenix Mural Project to document the city’s street art culture, enhance its vitality, and expand public support for design and the arts in public places. She is also a member of the Phoenix Arts & Culture Commission.
Public Art • Place-Making [Place-Keeping] • Design for Public/Community Engagement
Social Design • Participatory Design Processes • Design Thinking • Strategic Design
My research concentrates on visual-rhetorical expressions in public environments (primarily associated with public art), the dialectics among assorted visual interventions in those places, and the resulting (un)intended stories and truths revealed about people and their places.
"Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics." Design and Culture, no. 9 (2017): 353-355.
"Public Art Brings You Home: Using Public Art to Build a Strong Sense of Place," The International Journal of Design in Society, no. 2 (2018): 1-11.
Subversive Creativity Lab is a design and arts workshop dedicated to the study and creation of alternative, non-conformist, and counter-hegemonic visual and material interventions in the public sphere. Lab contributors are tied together by an ethos of Radical Public Service. We study visual-rhetorical expressions in public spaces and the resulting dialectics between arts <—> culture. Our work lives at the praxis between communication design, urban environments, and community engagement. Arizona ranks 46th in the nation for child well-being. Recent statistics show that the state’s residents were more likely than average to live in poverty and only a third had earned a college degree. To address these and other social justice issues, our goals include:
Phoenix Mural Project started as a digital archive of the city’s ephemeral world of muralism—see lots of images, plus more than 500 points on our map at phxmuralproject.org. While Phoenix has had an active mural-painting scene for many years, it hasn’t been well-documented or studied. Indeed, outside Arizona, Phoenix often goes unnoticed as a hub of arts + culture. Due to this isolation, local artists created a visual style different from other “art cities.” The project’s multi-faceted nature offers many avenues for audience engagement—website, maps, images, interviews, documentary film, exhibition, tours, and public interaction with artists. This is a resource for residents, visitors, scholars. It preserves art, collects stories, and celebrates grass-roots street art culture, and improves the national and international visibility of Phoenix as a world-class creative city.
Public Art Road Trip [MOWART] (field notes)
I traveled over 12,000 miles to conduct a survey of art in public places throughout the Western United States. The goal was to observe as much as possible in a wide variety of locations from urban to suburban to rural, and identify themes across categories that emerged as the investigation evolved. These are some questions that arose from this process:
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 522 | Adv Vis Com Des Studio II |
DSC 598 | Special Topics |
DSC 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 345 | Design Rhetoric |
GRA 521 | Adv Vis Com Des Studio I |
GRA 561 | Methods in Visual Comm I |
DSC 599 | Thesis |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 345 | Design Rhetoric |
DSC 590 | Reading and Conference |
DSC 592 | Research |
DSC 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 345 | Design Rhetoric |
GRA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
GRA 521 | Adv Vis Com Des Studio I |
GRA 561 | Methods in Visual Comm I |
DSC 599 | Thesis |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 345 | Design Rhetoric |
IND 494 | Special Topics |
GRA 494 | Special Topics |
ENT 494 | Special Topics |
SOS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
GRA 562 | Methods in Visual Comm II |
DSC 592 | Research |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 345 | Design Rhetoric |
GRA 521 | Adv Vis Com Des Studio I |
GRA 561 | Methods in Visual Comm I |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 424 | Advanced Media |
GRA 494 | Special Topics |
GRA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HDA 522 | Media Literacy, Distribution |
GRA 562 | Methods in Visual Comm II |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 494 | Special Topics |
GRA 561 | Methods in Visual Comm I |
GRA 598 | Special Topics |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HDA 310 | Socially Engaged Practice |
GRA 562 | Methods in Visual Comm II |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
GRA 598 | Special Topics |
2018
2017
American Institute of Graphic Artists, College Art Association
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2017
2016
2015
Phoenix Arts & Culture Commissioner