A Center for Place-Based Learning
Artist-in-Residency Program
2025 Applications for our
Summer Artist-in-Residency Program
have now closed
2024 Artists-in-Residence
Meet them in this WDIY-88.1 FM interview
Sasha Phyars-Burgess - Photographer
Sasha is a photographer, artist and educator who has traveled in and out of the area, working long term photo documentary projects that investigate histories of the African Diaspora. She is documenting East 40's participants (NCC students,residents of Bethlehem), the stewards of the land (students, workers, animals, plants, etc.), and the general ecosystem of NCC at large, as photographic commentary on Bethlehem/Lehigh Valley/Lenape Territory, at this current moment in history.
Mike Lorenz - Musician
Mike is a highly regarded and recognized guitarist, educator, producer, and composer. He has led groups in performances of his original compositions and arrangements, and has been spending his residency engaging with nature at the East 40 and transcribing sounds from around the grounds to use in new compositions.
Anne Sipos - Poet
Anne tells us that she sees herself as a facilitator of expression, of sharing, supporting, and creating in community. She formerly taught creative writing at the high school level and now works at NCC. Anne is working on an innovative, interactive rock poetry garden on the East 40 grounds.
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We welcomed two artists-in-residence
to the East 40 for summer/fall 2023!
WDIY-88.1 FM's "Lehigh Valley Arts Salon"
featured our program - tune in!
Meet Amanda Thackray
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In the summer of 2022, the East 40 was the site of an Artist-in-Residency by NCC Fine Arts Adjunct Faculty member Cindy Vojnovic (pictured, right). Read more about her work creating natural dyes and pigments, using plants and rocks.
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In the summer and fall of 2021, the East 40 was the site of an Artist-in-Residency program for three mixed-media artists. Read more about this inaugural program.
Walking the Meadow
featuring the work of Amanda Thackray
A solo exhibition of artwork resulting from the
artist's summer 2023 residency at the East 40
January 30 - March 7, 2025
Communications Hall Gallery
Northampton Community College
Ceramics Program
East 40 has a long collaboration with NCC's
Art Department. The acreage serves as
the site of two wood-fired kilns and two gas-powered kilns that are used
by students and faculty for the
pottery they create.
Read more about our program,
the physical improvements we're working on, and our faculty.
"In the present political environment, in which discourse is neither positive nor welcoming, the garden is a positive, welcoming place for people of all backgrounds to gather in the pursuit of a common experience. This garden is a reflection of who we are at NCC."
Kelly Allen
NCC East 40 Coordinator