DownEast is an indoor and outdoor juried competition. The indoor exhibition takes place at Emerge Gallery from  March 1 - 28, 2024 and the outdoor exhibition can be viewed all over Pitt County from March 2024 until February 2025. Click here to download the Downeast Sculpture Map

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2024 - 2025 Outdoor Sculptures:

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	Muse #2 1st Place Hanna Jubran Grimesland, NC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834

Whatever 2nd Place Austin Sheppard St. Pauls, NC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834

   

	Gray Wolf Return 3rd Place John Nativo Cleveland, OH Location: Winterville Fire and Safety 2593 N Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590

	Dragon Jonathan Bowling Greenville, NC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834

	Icosahedron Retro Space Junk Version Kirk Seese Lutherville, MD Location: Winterville Library 2613 N Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590

	Black and Red David Skora New Hartford, CT Location:  Winterville Town Hall 2571 Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590

   

Radial Adam Walls Tryon, NC Location: Chico's Mexican Restaurant 521 Cotanche Street Greenville, NC 27858

   

	Bouquet of Sunflowers Jonathan Chandler Halifax, VA Location:  Greenville Town Common 105 E 1st Street Greenville, NC 27858

   

Steel Saguaro Joe Chirchirillo North Bennington, VT Location:  Greenway at Jarvis Street Greenville, NC 27858

   

	Color Tree Carl Billingsley Greensboro, NC Location:  Greenway at Stancill Drive Greenville, NC 27858

   

	Reclaimed Tension Kevin Vanek Greensboro, NC Location:  Greenway at Harding Street Greenville, NC 27858

Daydreamer in Red Jessica Bradsher Greenville, NC Location:  Greenville Museum of Art 802 Evans Street Greenville, NC 27834

   

	WhirlWind David Skora New Hartford, NC Location:  Wahl-Coates School of the Arts 2200 E 5th Street Greenville, NC 27858

	Tumbling Dice Richard Whitehill Earlysville, VA Location:  Farmville Community Building 3866 S Main Street Farmville, NC 27828

	Three Little Birds Richard Whitehill Earlysville, VA Location:  Ayden Town Hall 4144 West Avenue Ayden, NC 28513

                                                

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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