LIBRARY CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH ARTIST DISCUSSION

The High Point Public Library hosted an artist discussion celebrating Black History Month with Phyllis Bridges on Feb. 22.

Bridges, a native of High Point, has been deeply involved in African-American art and High Point’s Black history for the last fourteen years. In 2008, she opened Yalik’s Modern Art, an art gallery featuring fine Black art by local African Americans. Also featured at this event was Yolanda Grier, a poet, author, visual artist and arts educator living in High Point. Grier also hosts “Creative Healing with Yolanda,” a podcast that invites people into conversations about healing and wholeness.

These artists showcased some of their work, and attendees had the opportunity to meet and talk with them and other local artists.