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Proposed site of the Silk Creative Community at the Historic Simon Silk Mill and North 13th Street Bridge over the Bushkill
River. Photo courtesy of Lafayette College
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Incorporated in 1826, Easton, Pennsylvania's Lafayette College is a private, coeducational college with more than 2,300 students from the U.S. and abroad. The college has partnered with the City of Easton on a number of long-term redevelopment projects, many with an arts and community revitalization focus, including resident-driven revitalization of West Ward, Easton's largest, most diverse, and most challenged low- and moderate-income neighborhood.
Lafayette College will use its MICD25 grant to support the Art of Urban Environments Festival, held from April 22 (Earth Day) to October 10, 2011. The festival will be part of a year-long series of art events celebrating the completion of the first phase of the Bushkill Corridor, an economic, environmental, and recreational mixed-use area along a tributary of the Delaware River. The festival will showcase eight to 16 juried, outdoor art installations created with labor, materials, and design inspiration drawn from the West Ward. These installations will serve as new, public venues for performances and other arts activities as well as community activities and responses to the artwork. Several of the installations will be model Eco-houses rehabilitated to green and historic preservation standards and available for live-work use by artists, craftspeople, and students.
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