Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Jenny Matthews! Jenny Mathews is an elementary art teacher in the Scranton School District. Creating is what she was put on this Earth to do. More importantly, Jenny feels she has a responsibility in encouraging others to create. On top of being an educator of the arts, Jenny is a performance painter as well. In case you were wondering what that is, she is happy to explain. Jenny…
Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Hannah Irelan! Hannah is a 21-year-old full-time college student, student teacher, and jewelry designer. She channels her creative energy by making personalized, unique, and repurposed jewelry, particularly earrings. To see more of Hannah’s work, follow her on Instagram @ifhannahcouldfly or check out her Etsy shop. If you are interested in being featured as part of our Sunday Spotlight series, click here!
Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Barry Barosky! For Barry, growing up, visual composition just seemed to make sense, in a photo, in a room, in a painting, in architecture, and everywhere else. He knew when it worked and when it didn’t and he could usually pinpoint why on either side. Barry went to school for fashion, then for fine art, and now he’s considering looking into interior design/decorating. It all overlaps. Design in…
Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Rashida Lovely of Newave Studios! Rashida is the owner of Newave Studios, NEPA’s first black-owned multi arts and science studio! They offer hip hop, contemporary, African and cirque dance along with an intense STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) program for children and adults. Rashida has been teaching in Scranton for about six years. She teaches dance, art and science to underprivileged children and families in the…
Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Creating Change FTP! Creating Change FTP (For The People) is a brand-new, Scranton-based startup focused on activism, education, and intersectionality. The time has come to challenge and dismantle systemic oppression wherever it has taken root. CCFTP believes that society should truly be governed by the best interests of the people, not by the special interests of the elite. As a group, Creating Change FTP works toward restorative justice,…
Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have bedfordtowers! bedfordtowers is a 27-year-old photographer from Scranton, PA. He shoots all of his photographs on film. His main focuses are street photography and fashion photography. To see more of bedfordtowers’ work, follow him on Instagram @bedfordtowers. If you are interested in being featured as part of our Sunday Spotlight series, click here!
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…
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…
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…
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…