Northampton Community College
3835 Green Pond Road
Bethlehem, PA 18020
610-861-5000
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Thomas Shillea - Director
Joshua Miller - Assistant Professor
Jason Zulli - Assistant Professor
Bruce Wall - Associate Professor

Traci Anfuso-Young - adjunct instructor
Thomas Burke - Adjunct Instructor
Mick Chapuk - adjunct instructor
Jan Crooker - adjunct instructor
Dennis Danko - adjunct instructor
Richard Harris - adjunct instructor
Walter Heath - adjunct instructor
Carol Heft - adjunct instructor
Gayle Hendricks - adjunct instructor
Danielle Hepner - adjunct instructor
Jeff Kleckner - adjunct instructor
Isadore LaDuca - adjunct instructor
Sandra Levisay - adjunct instructor
Jackie Lima - adjunct instructor
Dannell MacIlwraith - adjunct instructor
Susan Swanson - adjunct instructor
Douglas Zucco - adjunct instructor
Meet the PROfs!
Tom Shillea
Thomas Shillea
Director, Art Programs
email: TShillea@northampton.edu
office phone: 610-861-5062



Thomas Shillea is an educator, artist, and photographer. He completed his Bachelor of Science Degree in Art Education from Kutztown University and earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has teaching experience at all academic levels, from the public school system through college and university programs at the graduate level.

Mr. Shillea has exhibited his photographs extensively over the past 30 years. His photographs are in the collections of major art museums, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and The New Orleans Museum of Art, as well as in many college and university collections and private collections. He is the author of two books on the history of the Platinotype Process.

Mr. Shillea also worked in the advertising photography business in Philadelphia and New York City for over 20 years before accepting the position of Director of Art Programs at Northampton Community College.

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Josh Miller
Joshua Miller
Assistant Professor
email: JMiller@northampton.edu
office phone: 610-861-4180



Born and raised in the heart of Illinois, Josh Miller came to the Lehigh Valley in 1998 to attend Lehigh University, from which he graduated with a Master's Degree in Computer Science. While a student at Lehigh, he studied programming, industrial design, and graphic design while writing software for Caterpillar, Inc., on a part-time basis. The focus of his graduate research was 3D virtual environments and user interaction techniques. In 2002, while still studying at Lehigh, Josh began teaching 3D modeling and animation classes at the Katherine Gibbs School in Philadelphia, as the first step in his pursuit of a teaching career.

Following graduation, Josh taught animation, web/graphic design, video game design, and programming courses at a variety of schools including: Drexel University, Lafayette College, Montgomery County Community College, and Lehigh Valley College. He has also returned to Lehigh University to teach several training courses, teaching design techniques to non-designers. Josh currently holds a tenure-track position Northampton Community College, where he teaches web design, flash and 3D animation courses. He also runs a successful freelance web design business in his downtime.

Throughout his teaching assignments, Josh has had the pleasure of teaching many talented students who have gone on to work for animation companies, prominent advertising firms, and created their own businesses. He has been influential in curriculum development and started animation clubs at several schools, which gives students even more design and animation experience outside of the classroom.

View more of Josh's work at www.josh-miller.com.

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Jason Zulli
Jason Zulli
Assistant Professor
email: JZulli@northampton.edu
office phone: 610-861-5428



Jason Zulli is a digital artist, painter, graphic designer, photographer, and educator. He has completed his Bachelor's of Arts in Graphic Design & Integrative Arts from Penn State University and earned his Master's Degree in Instructional Design and Development from the Education College at Lehigh University. Jason also completed his Project Management Certificate while at Lehigh University.

During his studies at Penn State he started Zulli Productions (design company) which developed and designed 3D animations, interactive videos, websites, motion graphics, Interactive CD-ROMs, and graphic designs for numerous companies such as: Erie Insurance, New York law firms, Eastern Pa Business Journal, Council of Tall Buildings, Big Bear Promotions, and Executive Collections.

Jason's graduate work focused on instructional technology and development where he developed a thesis "Interface Design Usability." His research consisted of teacher learning environments, RFP's, Interface Design, and E-learning. During his graduate work he developed the first Interactive Media Wall, which is still displayed in the Lobby of Packard Hall at Lehigh University. Jason is deeply rooted in teaching and learning theories. View more of his theories here.

After graduating, Jason worked for the Marketing and Development Department at Lehigh University were he developed content and software for the Engineering College. He later began teaching instructional design for 2 years at Lehigh University under the Engineering, IPD (Integrative Product Development) and Education departments.

Since 1999, Jason has been deeply involved in developing digital media/art. His first pieces of art were developed with Mac Paint and displayed in the art gallery at Penn State. "He is considered an artist of the paint box era", Daily Collegian. He has created numerous digital art works for Zoom Zoom Magazine and his artwork as been exhibited in local and regional galleries.

Jason presently holds a tenure-track position at Northampton Community College where he teaches media art, new media theory & practice, new media productions, web design, flash, 3D animation courses.

View more of Jason's work at www.jasonzulli.com

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Bruce Wall
Bruce Wall
Associate Professor
email: BWall@northampton.edu
office phone: 610-861-5484



Bruce Wall is a painter whose artwork focuses on combining two and three-dimensional forms using a blend of painting, drawing, and mixed media materials. His work has been widely exhibited in New York City and internationally as well as being reviewed in Artforum, ARTNews and The New York Times. His work is in numerous public and private collections including City College of the City University of New York, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, and the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Best Products, Zales Corporation, and Lehigh Valley Hospital. He holds a M.F.A. in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Texas, Austin. He is also a former Fulbright-Hayes Grant recipient for travel and research on folk art designs in India.

Wall has received two Faculty Innovation Grants for research at NCC and was recently awarded the first Cecil and Eleanor Lipkin Chair in the Fine and Performing Arts. Prior to coming to Northampton, he was Director of the SoHo Center for Visual Artists in New York City and Fine Art Advisor for Liquitex Art Products at Binney & Smith Inc. in Easton. He has been at NCC since 1993 teaching beginning and advanced courses in Painting and Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design and Color, Three-Dimensional Design, Art History, and the Fine Art Major capstone course, Individual Studio - Professional Practices.

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