Kearen Enright Profile

Kearen Enright is a mother of 4 children, an artist, illustrator, and wildlife rehabilitator, who has found a way to combine all of her passions, in a small business called Rescue Creations. 

This video follows Kearen as she treats injured and orphaned wildlife and uses her art as a way of funding her efforts, creating a social awareness, and giving back to her community. We visit Ms. Enright’s clinic and art studio, located on her property in Portland,CT.  We follow her to various locations, an Earth Day celebration at the CT. Audubon Society, a craft show, and an adult daycare facility where she is volunteering and creating artwork, educating the public about local wildlife, and raising money for the caging, medicine, and food needed for the animals in her care.

Kearen Enright, grew up in Connecticut and earned a BFA from the University of Connecticut.  After graduating, Ms. Enright moved to New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles to work in theater and in film.  She worked on several shows on Broadway including “CATS," several feature films including Born on the of Forth of July, and on network television projects including the series “Dallas.”  

Kearen later moved to Chicago where she met her husband and in 1991 they returned to Connecticut  to raise their four children.   She freelanced as a muralist, scenic artist, and jewelry designer.  In 2000, Ms. Enright became a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and established a small craft business called Rescue Creations that funds her wildlife rehabilitation efforts.  All of the profits from this business go directly to pay for food, medicine, and caging needs of her animal patients.

Ms. Enright  volunteers on a regular basis with the elderly and at local schools teaching painting and craft classes.  She also teaches painting classes occasionally out of her home.  She currently has several children’s books in the works:  Quarry Story, a picture book about the history of the Portland Brownstone Quarries, and a series based on several of the real animals that have come through her clinic with amazing tales to tell.  

Kearen was featured in the July 2009 edition of Natural Awakenings Magazine, and profiled in 2010 in a short segment for a CPTV show called “All Things Connecticut”.

You can view her website at rescuecreations.com.