Emerge Gallery & Art Center

The Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Pitt County by promoting artists and arts organizations, educating through the arts, and making the arts accessible to the entire community. It operates a facility with two galleries hosting rotating exhibitions and a sales gallery featuring local North Carolina artists. The organization offers workshops and classes for youth and adults in pottery, metal design and jewelry, painting, drawing and more. It also runs two community outreach programs, the Youth Public Arts Project and Art is Good Medicine, which benefit youth and those affected by cancer.