Daniel Collins

Dan Collins joined the faculty at Arizona State University in 1989. He is founding Director of the 3DVP/PRISM lab (a 3D modeling and prototyping facility) and coordinator of the foundation art program (artCore). Collins studied studio art and art history at the University of California, Davis receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Art Education from Stanford University (1975), a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in "New Forms" and Sculpture from UCLA (1984), and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from ASU (2009). He has served as president of the Board of Trustees of the Telluride Institute, a “high altitude think-tank” in the San Juan Mountain Systems, of Colorado, since 2008.  His work involves developing “stories of place” and STEM education programming in collaboration with 15 high schools along the Colorado and Columbia Rivers and a comprehensive curriculum for first year University level art instruction called “artCORE.”  Most recently, he has been involved in drone-based mapping and data capture for analyzing sensitive high-altitude wetlands.