{"id":175383,"date":"2026-04-25T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:39:09","slug":"local-students-recognized-at-congressional-art-competition-at-everhart-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175383\/","title":{"rendered":"Local students recognized at Congressional Art Competition at Everhart Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 From paintbrush to Capitol display, local student artists took center stage Friday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/everhart-museum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Everhart Museum. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The walls were filled with local student artwork as Congressman Rob Bresnahan hosted an Art Competition Awards Ceremony. <\/p>\n<p>Each year, members of Congress select a winning high school artist from their district, whose work is then displayed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitthecapitol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Capitol<\/a> for an entire year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 17 high schools participated in the art competition.<\/p>\n<p>First-place winner Arimeya Janov from Wilkes-Barre Area High School, created a drawing of apples, saying she enjoys illustrating fruit. She shared her excitement about having her artwork displayed at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m so shocked.  I feel so grateful. I&#8217;m so excited. I feel so blessed. It\u2019s just unbelievable honestly,\u201d said Janov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love the vibrant colors. And I like the golden frame. I just love it, it\u2019s so beautiful. And I just fell in love with the picture, so I had to draw it,\u201d said Janov.<\/p>\n<p>Second-place winner Destiny Kyle, also from Wilkes-Barre Area High School, shared her unique assignment and the artwork she ultimately created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to pick an animal and given them an occupation. So, for mine, I was like, what animal do I go for? What job do I go for? Originally, it was just going to be a hare working as an investigator. And I decided, well, I&#8217;m going to give him a partner to work with. So I made an elk to go along with him,\u201d said Kyle.<\/p>\n<p>Students were also joined at the Everhart Museum by their friends, family, and art teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 From paintbrush to Capitol display, local student artists took center stage Friday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-175383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}