Spotlights

Spotlight: Riley Jackson Earthly Peaces

Spotlight: Riley Jackson Earthly Peaces

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Riley Jackson of Earthly Peaces! Riley was always very lucky with being able to find 10 to 15 four leaf clovers at a time. She tried to keep them in a picture frame to be able to show them off, but sadly it did not work. She started to experiment with resin to preserve them and fell in love with it!  Riley loved the idea of taking a…

Spotlight: Jessica Maietta

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Jessica Maietta! Jessica Maietta attended Keystone College for her BA of the Arts, with a double concentration in Mixed Media and Art Therapy. Maietta’s work has been shown at various venues around NEPA. She is influenced by the artists Paul Kley and Hilma Af Klint.  Maietta’s visionary philosophy of art is to capture multi-dimensional concepts using abstraction, symbolism, and mixed media. Maietta approaches her work in a meditative…

Spotlight: Mike Reznick

Spotlight: Mike Reznick

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Mike Reznick! Mike is an artist from Kingston, PA and the gallery curator at Black Fuse Gallery & Tattooing. By day, Mike works with individuals with intellectual disabilities at Keystone Community resources. The way Mike found art was due to his dyslexia as images helped him learn. His art is created through things that either happen to him or that he has found interesting in life. He prefers…

Spotlight: Leann Walsh

Spotlight: Leann Walsh

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Leann Walsh!  After graduating from King’s College and heading down to Philadelphia to get her Master’s degree in Molecular Biology at Drexel University, Leann began really struggling with anxiety. In order to cope with the stress of a new environment and graduate school, she started painting in her free time. Leann found that the simultaneously chaotic and organized style required to paint galaxies was a relaxing escape from…

Spotlight: Travis J. Prince

Spotlight: Travis J. Prince

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Travis J. Prince!  Best known for his painting “Chancellor Williams,” Travis Prince is a self-taught portrait artist from South Carolina. His focus on education, social issues, and relationships within the black community is put in the forefront of his work. His medium of choice is oil paints, but he sometimes incorporates inks, spray paints and other mediums as well. He hopes that his art will spark conversations on…

Spotlight: Beckie Henderson

Spotlight: Beckie Henderson

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Beckie Henderson! Ever since she could hold a pencil, Beckie has always loved to draw. Her grandfather was a watercolor artist and her father is extremely creative. As a child in England, Beckie won local art shows and a nationwide Saturday morning TV show contest with a submission of Disney characters at the beach. As a teenager, she drew a lot of anime and comic book stuff and…

Spotlight: Justene Bartkowski

Spotlight: Justene Bartkowski

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Justene Bartkowski! As a NEPA native, Justene’s love for what’s around her is at the epicenter of her pursuit to capture the most beautiful moments behind the lens. This passion for photography and videography began in her hometown, and continued to grow as she began traveling the rest of the country and world.  Justene photographs/videos life in its most raw and honest form, finding the nostalgic and cinematic…

Spotlight: Jeremy Brown

Spotlight: Jeremy Brown

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Jeremy Brown! Jeremy Brown is the creator of Wallace.dog, an 8-bit corgi who loves adventures and acting out his favorite video games! Jeremy launched the Wallace.dog project on January 1, 2018. The project consists of 99 published animations, 1 game in-development, dozens of characters, and nearly 5,000 followers across all platforms. The titular Wallace.dog visits exotic dog parks, plays with hoo-mans and fellow animals, and pays homage to…

Spotlight: Aarika Whittle

Spotlight: Aarika Whittle

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Aarika Whittle of Whittle Bones! When Aarika was young, she was curious. She spent countless hours in the woods discovering wonders and getting lost in her own imagination. She turned to creation and art to make stories from her finds and fun. Aarika’s grandmother Josephine was the most incredible woman and constantly fueled her love and passion for nature and art. She bought Aarika her very own art…

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