DownEast is an indoor and outdoor juried competition. The indoor exhibition takes place at Emerge Gallery from |
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2025 - 2026 Outdoor Sculptures:
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Drosera Titanus
1st PlaceJohn Parker Glenside, PA Location: Farmville Community Building 3866 S Main Street Farmville, NC 27828 |
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Industrial Oaf: Delicate Dump
2nd PlaceKevin Vanek Greensboro, NC Location: Greenway at Stancill Drive Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Umusambi
3rd PlaceEthan Morrow Cary, NC Location: Winterville Library 2613 N Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590 |
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The Point
Jordan Parah Greenville, NC Location: Winterville Fire and Safety Building 2593 N Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590 |
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Embrace
Carl Billingsley Greensboro, NC Location: Winterville Town Hall 2571 Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590 |
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The Patriot
Christian Happel
Ruskin, FL Location: Chico's Mexican Restaurant 521 Cotanche Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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The Pollinator
Kirk Seese
Lutherville, MD Location: Greenville Town Common 105 E 1st Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Green Projector
Joe Chirchirillo North Bennington, VT Location: Greenway at Jarvis Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Birth of Moons
Robertus van der Wege
Greensboro, NC Location: Greenway at Harding Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Slag
David Skora New Hartford, CT Location: Greenville Museum of Art 802 Evans Street Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Rocket with Light
Howard Russo St. Charles, IL Location: Wahl-Coates School of the Arts 2200 E 5th Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Life
Adam Walls Tryon, NC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Perception #2
Chris Plaisted
New Hartford, CT Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Seven Sisters Rose Window
Beau Lyday Valdese, NC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Pegasus
Jonathan Bowling Greenville, NC Location: Ayden Town Hall 4144 West Avenue Ayden, NC 28513 |
Jessica Bradsher is a visual artist specializing in metal sculpture and painting who lives and works in Greenville, North Carolina. She creates with themes ranging from whimsical to contemplative in her outdoor sculptural pieces.
Her work has led her to recently install public sculptures across the United States. Jessica earned her MFA in 2018 at East Carolina University and currently teaches visual arts and sculpture at John Paul II Catholic High School in Greenville, NC.
She believes it is important to be an example to her students of a productive, working, successful artist to show the next generation the possibilities found within the arts.
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2024 - 2025 Outdoor Sculptures:
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Joni Younkins-Herzog is a sculptor living in
Athens, Georgia and a former sculpture
professor with a Master of Fine Arts from
Indiana University. Younkins-Herzog’s work
has been featured in exhibitions across the
country, including New York, Fort Lauderdale,
San Francisco, the “Art Prize” in Grand Rapids,
Michigan; internationally in Pabianice, Poland, Cajabamba, Peru, and Sang Arts Village,
Ghana.
Her sculptures combine beauty with absurdity
often blurring the lines between reality and
fantasy. Utilizing many mediums, she lures the
viewer in with luscious colors and materials,
to contemplate anxious content in proximity.
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2023 - 2024 Outdoor Sculptures:
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JUROR
D. Lance Vickery was raised in Florida. Early,
as an aspiring two-dimensional artist, deeply
rooted in formalism, Lance attended Florida
State University, where he met Charles Hook.
Hook changed Lance’s perception of art and
sculpture. Hook held the position that all
“Sculpture is real, all painting and
photography, no matter how realistic is
abstract. Two-dimensional work always
requires the viewer to imagine the third
dimension.”
Lance is currently an Assistant Professor at
the University of North Florida and President
of the International Conference for
Contemporary Cast Iron Art [ICCCIA].
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2022 - 2023 Outdoor Sculptures:
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JUROR
James Matson is a sculptor and set designer living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He started off as a potter but kept sticking chunks of steel and wood into chunks of clay until it wouldn’t fit in the kiln anymore. His work centers around personal narratives seeking to find those universal moments that we share as individuals. His focus on the relationship between space and form is central to all his sculptural work.
He recently retired from teaching after thirty-five years of Sculpture, Ceramics, and Three-Dimensional Design. His work has been seen both here and abroad and is part of several collections.
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