Evil Bobs is a self taught artist from Wendell, NC. Bobs' early work was mainly focused on pen and ink illustration and is using the smART program to focus on his painting. Bobs' art touches on the surrealist imagery that you see in many popular contemporary art magazines such as Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose.
Website: evilbobsart.com
Jamil Burton, born 1975 in Newark, New Jersey is an American artist and illustration painter. He lived a large part of his life in the states of New Jersey and North Carolina and attended Northern Nash Sr. High school, graduating in June of 1993. Jamil has formal training in fine art and illustration; Savannah Art & Design, St. Paul’s College and Katherine Gibbs School. He has completed numerous commissions professionally various companies, galleries, organizations and schools such as Williford Elementary School, Mount Vernon High School, The United Way. He has illustrated children's books, most recently, Hannah's World in collaboration with Tara S.Lewis and Oli the Octopus written by Kenneth Hamilton. Inspired by his community and the love of life and family, Jamil hopes to paint images of love & happiness. Painting a picture of his community and society, the good and bad, Jamil hopes to provoke thought, a feeling, and emotions. Take a look at the windows (paintings) of his soul.
Annelise Brady grew up in a household of modern artisans. Her father was a builder and her mother, a painter. From an early age, she would accompany her parents and eventually assist on job sites for their business, Frame to Finish. She developed professional skills while painting the trim on houses, oftentimes two stories up or higher. As an artist, drawing, sketching, and journaling are ways for her meandering mind to vent. What might seem like random doodles in her journal reveal intricate linework and details upon closer glance. This combination of professional experience and artistic sensibility led to the opportunity to paint murals. She has painted three murals, designed graphics, and assisted other artists on separate projects. Her primary focuses are painting, ceramics, and baking. She often draws inspiration from the process and materials, loves getting her hands dirty, and gets energized by the feeling she gets when she knows people understand and enjoy her work. She’s frequently found mixing creative cocktails at downtown Kinston establishments or teaching classes at Community Council for the Arts.
Maner Nobles is a North Carolina native and retired state employee whose passion is helping people and creating art.
Maner graduated from Woodington Consolidated School and Lenoir Community College. She has national certification in several behavioral disciplines and management strategies. She can't remember a time when she couldn't create art. She won an art contest as a teenager which provided her with training, materials and encouragement to make good art.
For the last nine years she has painted and exhibited her work nationwide. Her pieces have been juried into local and national shows and purchased for private collections. She does commissions routinely and is the lead painter for the Senior paintings and the Lenoir County Council on Aging. She is a member of the Lenoir County Artist League. Her long-term goal is to create a therapeutic art program for seniors.
Airdnassela is a self-taught painter whose work rises from the threshold between the seen and the remembered. Her early acrylics were elemental, pure color and pure instinct, before a profound rupture led her fully into oil, a medium that allowed her to articulate the symbolic, the mythic, and the interior with new precision. Her figures appear mid-transformation, illuminated by an inner light that refuses to be extinguished, each canvas a record of the soul returning to itself.
Though rooted in painting, her practice is ever evolving; she moves fluidly toward installation, mixed media, and any form that can hold the truth she is trying to reveal. Her work is not confined to a medium; it is an ongoing act of remembering.
Joanne McCobb is a multimedia conceptual installation artist whose work explores social, environmental and cultural subjects. Her pieces often function as stories or starting points for conversation, reflecting ideas about culture back to the viewer. Some works also draw from personal experiences that McCobb translates into visual form. Through her practice, she encourages audiences to question the world around them while considering their own relationship with the artwork.
McCobb’s work reflects influences from conceptual artists of the 1970s, including John Baldessari, as well as the Arte Povera and Land Art movements. More recently, her use of projection and sound has expanded those influences. She has been particularly captivated by the work of Bill Viola and Peter Campus.
Kristy Kelly Writing is something that Kristy's done for as long as she can remember. Her writing career started with a few stories published with small presses. In 2019, she began writing for Neuse News as a journalist. She raised four children to adulthood and they rewarded her with four grandchildren with one on the way. In 2021 she started a video podcast about Lenoir County called Local Hogwash.
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Maximillian Mozingo's work reflects his motto: Art is Life. Goldsboro artist Maximillian specializes in fine art, murals & custom clothing and paints in with a myriad of mediums: acrylics, oils, spray paint, and does mixed media pieces as well. Art means everything to and he truly believes that this is his purpose and mission in life.
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Michael Mosca graduated in 2002 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he studied sculpture and painting. Michael has spent the past 18 years investigating marks and movement created from his subconscious and represented in his large-scale charcoal drawings or his paintings in oils. Michael has shown his work regionally and internationally over the last 18 years. He has participated in several international artists colony's and residences. Currently, he is participating in the smART Kinston City Foundation.
Pat Rooney is a Boston-born artist who has dabbled in in most forms of creative media and settled on painting as his main focus. Currently Living in Exile in Eastern North Carolina with his wife and three dogs.
Bishop is a printmaker and graphic designer based in Greenville, North Carolina. They work primarily in lithography and screen printing, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, mental health and major life transitions. Their artwork reflects their experiences with anxiety and life changes, using anthropomorphic animal characters and a nostalgic, storybook style to tell those stories.
Bishop graduated from East Carolina University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a concentration in printmaking. While attending ECU, they developed a love for screen printing and lithography and continue to enjoy sharing those crafts with others.
They currently work at Magic Mile Screenprinting as a screen printer and graphic designer. Outside of their professional and artistic work, Bishop enjoys crocheting, nature walks and crafting.
https://printsbybishop.com/ | @printsbybishop Instgram
Marissa "squeeky" Goldberg is a California born artist who has made her way in the art scene all over the west coast and Pacific north west, through out magazines, books , CD covers as well as in gallery's and museums. She is now currently living in eastern North Carolina. Marissa loves to make art out of the cute, funny and the macabre ideas. She works with a variety of mediums and loves to explore the bright and dark side of life
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