The Communications Hall Gallery at Northampton Community College’s Bethlehem campus is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions organized in collaboration with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York.
On Friday, November 21, while the exhibitions are on-view, join us for a small-group workshop in the Communications Hall print studio with Booker and Sanz. Featuring the printmaking technique, Collagraphy, this workshop will take participants thorugh building their own printing plates and then making prints using NCC’s intaglio presses. There will be a morning session from 9-12 and an afternoon session from 1-4. Sign-up is required and space is limited to 20 participants per session. While everyone is welcome to attend, priority will be given to NCC students, faculty and staff. Each participant is limited to one session.
Climate Imprints features works by Rie Hasegawa, John Andrews, Sarah Sears, Essye Klempner, Ethan Tate, Anna Fiacco, Tara Sabharwal, Chakaia Booker, Justin Sanz, Edward Fausty, Yasuyo Tanaka and Shervone Neckles and is curated by Chakaia Booker, Tara Sabharwal and Justin Sanz.
Witnessing the increasingly evident signs of the destruction of our livable environment weighs heavy on the minds of many artists. As environmental and agricultural issues worsen, all people are forced to rethink their current situations to survive. Climate change is seamlessly linked with migration, much of the cause of the other.
Artists collectively reflect the culture and thoughts of a society and printmaking has historically been a medium that reflects on pressing current events. In this exhibition artists examine their responses to the climate crisis through various printmaking techniques.
Selected Works from the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Archive features works by Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Blackburn, Seung-min Lee, Chakaia Booker, Ayana Evans, Faith Ringgold, Juan Sanchez, Romare Bearden, Al Loving, Betye Saar, Devraj Dakoji, Maren Hassinger, Mel Edwards, Raque Ford, Robin Holder and Reuben Kadish.
The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, NY was founded in the 1940s by Blackburn, an artist with the goal to create a space for other artists to learn to make prints regardless of financial access and technical abilities. According to their mission, “It is with this spirit of openness and inclusion that Robert Blackburn’s vision of sustaining this welcoming, creative environment continues to serve as the backbone of the workshop today.” A broad range of emerging to highly established artists have made artworks at the RBPW. This exhibition showcases this breadth of reach the workshop has had by highlighting works made at the RBPW from the printshop’s archive.
Communications Hall Gallery
Northampton Community College
3835 Green Pond Road
Bethlehem PA 18020
For questions contact:
Rachael Gorchov, rgorchov@northampton.edu; Jillian McLuhan, jmcluhan@northampton.edu.
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Left: Chakaia Booker and Justin Sanz working together at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Right: Collaborative collagraph print and plate by Chakaia Booker and Justin Sanz. Students at the 11/21 workshops will learn this technique.
Chakaia Booker (born 1953 Newark, New Jersey) is an internationally renowned and widely collected American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works from recycled tires and stainless steel for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces. Booker’s works are contained in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the US, in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Booker was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Recent public installation highlights include Millennium Park, Chicago (2016-2018), Garment District Alliance Broadway Plazas, New York, NY (2014), and National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Avenue Sculpture Project, Washington DC (2012).
Justin Sanz is a Brooklyn-based artist who exhibits locally and internationally. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Spencer Museum, Davis Museum, and various private collections. He currently works as an educator, Master Printer, and Workshop Manager at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC.
The Dunning Gallery at Northampton Community College Pocono Campus is pleased to present Enduring Presence 2025: Art of the Fourth Crow, an exhibition of contemporary and historic art and functional objects from the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is curated by Adam DePaul and features work by Stony Acevedo, Jim Beer, Tammy Botkin, Paper Buck, Rosemary Bushy, Evan Cohen, Nonie Cruzado, Adam Waterbear DePaul, Shelley Windamakwi DePaul, Isaac Green Diebboll, Ed Eckstein, Valara Hartman, Linda M. Heberling, Rachel E. Heberling, Teri Many Flowers Spirit Woman Hislop, Lisa Kelley, Eric Labacz, Sarah Mejia, Abigail Michelini, Coco Peila, Danny Reese, Robert Red Hawk Ruth, Jane Simon, Marc Strong, Cleng Sumagaysay, Amanda Thackray, Dara Youngas well as collective and anonymous artists.
Many in the Lenape nation believe that we are now living in the Time of the Fourth Crow—a time where the homeland Lenape will emerge from their forced hiding, declare their continued presence in the Lenapehokink, and forge a new Harmony with all of our new neighbors in this land. It is a time of friendship, collaboration, healing, and community both within the Lenape and among all two-leggeds in our homeland and beyond.
This third iteration of the exhibition currently on-view at Dunning Gallery was initially installed at Temple University, then at Haverford College and at Arcadia University. In the spirit of the Fourth Crow, this installation expands upon the core exhibition, which featured primarily traditional mediums. The exhibition at Dunning also showcases contemporary art from both Lenape artists working with modern mediums and non- Lenape artists who have created work to acknowledge and support Lenape homeland people and culture.
The artworks on-view reflect diversity in both cultural and artistic background, and variety in media including photography, typesetting, papermaking, poetry, graphic design, banners, film, a graphic novel, an 8′ x 24′ mural, and even a windmill (which, of course, will be represented, but not present, at the exhibit).
The exhibition will coincide with the Lenape Conference also taking place at the Pocono campus and will feature a ceremony and performance preceding the reception.
Dunning Gallery
Keystone Hall, 2nd floor
Northampton Community College Pocono Campus
2411 PA-715
Tannersville, PA 18372
Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 8am – 7pm
Friday: 8am – 5pm
Saturday: 10am – 3pm
Closed to the public during Lenape conference all day Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8.
For questions contact:
Carol Burns, cburns@northampton.edu; Katelynn Frey, kfrey@northampton.edu; Rachael Gorchov, rgorchov@northampton.edu; Jillian McLuhan, jmcluhan@northampton.edu.
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“Desolation by Tammy Botkin, Nonie Cruzado, Cleng Sumagaysay, 8ftx24ft
Northampton Community College’s (NCC) Art Department is participating in the International Children’s Peace Mural Project. With the slogan, “Painting Together for a Peaceful World,” the mural project allows youth to create art on canvases the same size as Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” in different places around the world.
On September 6, the mural will be used in the celebration of Bethlehem’s World Heritage Designation. A week later, on September 13 from 1 – 4 p.m., the mural will be hung at the Bethlehem Public Library during a vibrant celebration as a part of the 2025-26 Bethlehem Japan Peace Project, Beacons of Hope through Art & Music. The project is a series of art and musical performances to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. This project will celebrate the longstanding 60+ year sister city relationship between Bethlehem, PA and Tondabayashi, Japan.
Award-winning photographer and director of art programs, Tom Shillea, contributed this photograph of Coretta Scott King for an exhibit at the US National Library of Medicine.