DownEast is an indoor and outdoor juried competition. The indoor exhibition takes place at Emerge Gallery from |
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2026 - 2027 Outdoor Sculptures:
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Capriole
1st PlaceJessica Bradsher Greenville, NC Location: Wahl Coates School of the Arts 2200 E 5th Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Orbital Motion
2nd PlaceHanna Jubran Grimesland, NC Location: Chico's Mexican Restaurant 521 Contanche St Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Scorpionis Grande
3rd PlaceJohn Parker Glenside, PA Location: Pitt County Government 415 Government Circle Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Spinnaker Bench
Carl Billingsley Greensboro, NC Location: Alice F. Keene Park 4561 County Home Road Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Lean Forward to Go Forward
Chelsea Tinkenburg Lynchburg, VA Location: Greenville Museum of Art 802 Evans Street Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Becoming
Aisling Millar
Jacksonville, FL Location: Dickinson Avenue and Pitt Street Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Constellation
Matt Amante Winterville, NC Location: Greenway at Jarvis Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Industrial Complex
David Skora
New Hartford, CT Location: Greenway at Stancill Street Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Ordnance
Ben Lock Durham, NC Location: Greenway at Harding Drive Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Doppler Effect
Hanna Jubran Grimesland, NC Location: Pitt-Greenville Airport 400 Airport Road Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Bound
Jonathan Burger New Bern, NC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Element
Joni Younkins-Herzog
Athens, GA Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Vessel
Bob Doster Lancaster, SC Location: ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center Greenville, NC 27834 |
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Riverbend I
Kyle Lusk Brevard, NC Location: Ayden Town Hall 4144 West Avenue Ayden, NC 28513 |
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Delilah
Joni Younkins-Herzog Athens, GA Location: Winterville Town Hall 2571 Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590 |
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Internal Intersection
Matt Amante Winterville, NC Location: Winterville Fire and Safety Building 2593 N Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590 |
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Phoebe
Doug McAbee Laurens, SC Location: Winterville Library 2613 N Railroad Street Winterville, NC 28590 |
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Horse 23
Jonathan Bowling Greenville, NC Location: Oliver Murphy Park 3414 NC-121 Farmville, NC 27828 |
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Change in Direction
Adam Walls Tyron, NC Location: Farmville Community Building 3866 S Main Street Farmville, NC 27828 |
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Under the Same Sky
Jordan Parah
Greenville, NC Location: Jefferson's Florist 310 W 9th Street Greenville, NC 27834 |
Sculptor Jordan Parah has been a visual artist her whole life, drawing on a childlike imagination to inspire her metal sculptures today. Her work challenges the intrinsic properties of metal and is formed into harmonious compositions that exemplify coexistence, creating balance and harmony out of diversity. She received a BFA in Sculpture and minor in Art History from East Carolina University in 2014. Today, Parah runs her business, Parahdise Sculpture, creating contemporary aluminum and steel sculptures in Greenville, NC. She also works at City Art Gallery and has worked in museums and galleries for 15 years. With over a decade of experience in public art exhibitions, her focus is large-scale outdoor commission work, which can be found throughout the southeast including the Greenville Museum of Art, UNC Rex Hospital Cancer Center, Wake Forest Renaissance Arts Center, The Pointe at Barclay in Wilmington, and Novant Health. Her sculptures are in private collections across the United States. Parah also actively serves on the ACE Committee at the Greenville Museum of Art and the Civic Arts Committee in Greenville.
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2025 - 2026 Outdoor Sculptures:
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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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