Spotlights

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Cara Wengen! Cara is a mixed media artist living in Dallas, PA with her rescue dog Bruce Wayne.  She started CaraWengenCo in 2019, but has been drawing and illustrating for over 15 years. Her style alternates between pen and ink drawing and digital illustration, and usually combines a mix of both mediums. Her work is inspired by the frenzied, freewheeling, and oftentimes fragile life of 20-something females—with a…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Kathleen Nealon! Kathleen is from a small town in NEPA called Factoryville. She loved to explore the wild landscape of NEPA while growing up, which led her to venture to surrounding areas as well as different parts of the country and even the world. Branching out of her comfort zone really inspired her and strengthened her love for the outdoors, which then led her to discovering her passion…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Jamie Barrese! Jamie (Pesotine) Barrese is a photographer from Northeast Pennsylvania. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree with a concentration in Photography from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and has done Post Baccalaureate studies in Art Education. As a former photojournalist for The Standard-Speaker/Times-Shamrock she has won numerous awards including Keystone Press Awards from the PA Newspaper Association, along with the PA Women’s Press Association. …

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Kristin Keeney of the Shabby Peacock! Kristin has always possessed a creative streak from the time she was young. One of her relatives once told her as a child that he felt someday she would grow up to be an artist or an interior designer. Kristin went to college at The Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and initially earned a degree in Fashion Merchandising. She went back to…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Kathryn Roberts from Handling It Podcast! Graduating from college in the spring of 2019, landing a dream job and living in her favorite city in the world, New York, Kathryn accomplished every goal on her list all at once. However, she was lacking a sense of fulfillment. Having every detail of her life mapped out to suddenly not having a clue where she was headed led her to…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we are bringing back Caroline Khoury, a girl of many talents, to showcase her Etsy store cpartkdesign! Caroline Khoury, owner of Face the Art PA, started up her own Etsy page in 2020, during the start of the pandemic to keep herself busy. Though she loves painting on canvas, she started specializing in glasswork, specifically glass ornaments! The most popular order requests are universities, customized names, pets, and small businesses…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Kathleen Beckwith and Amy Burgerhoff of The Perfected Pineapple! Kathleen and Amy are sisters and co-owners of The Perfected Pineapple, located at 1808 N. Main Avenue in Scranton,  PA.  They officially opened  their business about 3 years ago, but had really started a couple years before that. About 5 years ago, Kathleen’s daughter had started a secondhand store outside of Philly. Amy and Kathleen began looking at flea…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Samantha Faith Amato of Samantha Faith Photography! Samantha Faith is a photographer, videographer, storyteller, and avid movie watcher! She was born and raised right here in NEPA and takes immense pride in it. Samantha fell in love with the idea of “content creating” from a very young age. When she was 9 years old, she was gifted her very first little red camera, and the rest is history……

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Ally Ham! Ally is originally from the Lehigh Valley area (Easton, PA) but has been living in Scranton for the last 4 years with her boyfriend and their dog Ziggy. She goes to Marywood University and is about to receive her BA in Art Therapy with a minor in Psychology.  Ally was born with a disability called Arthrogryposis, which affects the mobility in her arms and hands and…

Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Gary Cook! Gary first got into photography when he took a class on it in high school. This was back before digital so everything had to be processed in the darkroom. He really enjoyed the hands-on aspect of 35mm. He kept photography as a hobby as time went on and began using digital cameras.  About a year ago, Gary decided to get back into film photography. Because there…