Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Carlee Williams! Carlee is a 19 year old soon-to-be Fine Arts graduate from Luzerne County Community College. She has been creating art ever since she could hold a pencil. She fondly looks back at her old sketchbooks and sees how much her skills have improved over time. Carlee works in a lot of mediums, but currently enjoys oil painting. However, when it comes to her commissions, her focus is…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Keith Kratz! Keith is a local graphic designer and illustrator born and raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He constantly doodled as a child, but it wasn’t until he took private lessons as a teenager that he became serious about art. In college, he studied graphic design and subsequently found work at a screen printing company. Keith considers drawing and painting to be his true passions, and often incorporates his love…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Maximillian McNelis! Max is a big kid that sees the world in a unique way. He has a passion for creating a desire to share his work for others to enjoy. When he was younger, Max started drawing to help escape the bullying he would endure. The more he drew, the more his passion for creating grew and over time, he learned he wanted to share his creations with…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Ariel Laura! Ariel is a college student at Penn State University. She’s graduating this year with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing. On her social media accounts, Ariel’s Pages, she runs an English tutoring program and curates a local Blind Date with a Book. Blind Date with a Book is where a library, bookstore, or friend wraps multiple books, writes clues on them, and users pick the book they…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Jacob Snell! Jacob is a father, husband, and content creator. He attended Maryland Institute College of Art for two years before he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Before COVID, he spent years in the food service industry as a cook and later worked for studio BE as a content creator. Since he’s been there, he has put his artistic skills towards creative direction for the company. Now, he paints…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Morgan Jackson! Morgan Jackson is a landscape painter with a great love of nature. As a new mom of a nine-month old, she’s trying her best to paint during nap times. Her journey started in high school, where her passion for landscape painting came from a tough teacher. On one project, the teacher gave Morgan a 100+ and encouraged her to keep practicing and appreciating the world around her.…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Shannon Buckley from Master Shot Studios! Shannon is a passionate digital strategist that develops and delivers creative technical solutions that tell a compelling story to educate and inspire. She has 8+ years professional experience in digital media, instructional design and technology, strategic management, project management, and marketing. It’s with this experience that she operates Master Shot Studios, a pre-production, production, and post-production video services company that produces digital stories…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Patrick O’Neill from Rusticat Woodworks! Patrick is an NEPA native, where he is an engineer by day. Nights and weekends are spent in his wood shop. What started out as helping a local TNR project building cat shelters turned into a creative outlet. After building the cat shelters, he began to complete wood projects around his home. This helped Patrick form Rusticat Woodworks in late 2020. With countless hours…
Every Sunday, we turn the spotlight on some great creatives. This week, we have Samantha Ziemba! Samantha is a local artist and certified art teacher based in Scranton. Her creative journey began when she was young, between the ages of three and five, where her love for expressing herself began to take shape through painting and dance. Growing up, Samantha always had a need to create. As a kid, she would choreograph dances in her bedroom or find any surface to paint or…