Jessica Bradsher

Jessica Bradsher is an art educator and studio artist living in Greenville, NC. She completed her MFA in 2018 and is now growing her pet portrait business. She also continues to teach at the high school level as well as keeping up with welding for her sculpture career. Her sculptural and painting work often include realism focusing on the human figure and animals.

Scott Eagle

Scott Eagle is an Associate Professor and serves as the Area Coordinator for the Painting and Drawing program at the School of Art and Design, at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. His paintings and illustrations have been exhibited and reproduced internationally. Publications featuring his work include The Oxford American, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, Juxtapoz, and numerous books. Scott was selected by Creative Quarterly Magazine as one of their top 100 creatives for 2013 and his work is currently displayed on the exterior of the US Embassy in Beijing, China. He works in a wide variety of mediums including digital and is especially interested in the idea of the creative act as thinking through making.

Rakia Jackson

Rakia Jackson is an artist based in North Carolina. Currently a studio artist at The Art Lab where she is focusing on experimenting in her craft, working to build a large body of work, and learning herself as an artist. She received her BFA in Graphic Design, but her output of work is mainly painting. She works heavily in acrylic, gouache, and digital art however she acknowledges that she is multifaceted in many ways. While self-healing through crystal work and many forms of meditation the goal with her creations is explore translating her internal growth and emotions to works of art. She hopes to build with others and open space for conversations with other creatives who may have similar paths.

Don Neal

Don Neal is a retired geologist who taught in the Department of Geological Sciences at ECU for 40 years. Always a dabbler in art, he took to ceramics and painting upon retirement. Interest in texture and color has led him to abstract painting where color and texture allow for emotions to be revealed. Don takes inspiration from painters of the abstract expressionism school.

Catherine Spruill

Catherine Spruill is a native of Falkland, North Carolina. She received her BFA in Painting from ECU in 1979 and has made Greenville her home since then. Catherine retired from ECU, where she was a graphic artist for many years. Catherine works mainly in watercolor but enjoys other media as well. Combining her love of nature and the animals that inhabit the world, she draws inspiration from her own backyard.

Jun Vasconcelos

Jun S. Vasconcelos began creating art at a young age and was influenced by his surroundings, music, and issues of injustice. Originally from Brazil, art provided him with a voice to critique the injustice he witnessed. Jun specializes in modern art and mural paintings, while using bright colors, whether acrylic or spray paints, that draw attention. Jun’s art always involves organic movement with geometrical shapes or figures.

Catherine Walker

Catherine Walker’s images are made to be visually compelling. Each work represents the view with an aesthetic unity. Her subject matter is draws from her life experiences. She paints objects collected and treasured by people who are in her life. Catherine aims to present the view with something unique, but not inaccessible.

Beth Blake

Beth Blake's Work, "Listening," is the mural displayed on the side of Starlight Cafe, Greenville, NC. The garden serves as a surrogate to talk about diversity. The garden is messy, overgrown, and wonderful. It is populated by spiders, toads, snakes, and lots of rabbits. When the garden was started, the soil was depleted and the land empty, making it an unbearable place. The garden now showcases the great efforts to rebuild the soil, to enable plant growth and provide sustenance and safety for a range of insects, birds, and amphibians. The garden is like any community; when diversity is supported, lives flourish.

Dennis Wilkins

A new resident of Greenville, Dennis was looking for an art community when he found Emerge Gallery during PirateFest. Dennis creates paintings that range from abstract to realistic, in mediums like acrylic and watercolor. Dennis has a story for each painting and loves to share them with fellow artists and patrons.

MIKE LAMB

Mike Lamb is an artist and illustrator who graduated from ECU’s School of Art and Design with a BFA in Painting. Mike has illustrated a variety of publications and worked heavily in commissions. The last few years have brought him out of hibernation. You can find his work here at the gallery as well as at Alley Cat Records.