New Display Honors Winston-Salem Women In The Arts

City officials in Winston-Salem are dedicating a new display honoring women in the arts. The four selected all have strong local ties to the Triad. 

Among the artists highlighted is award-winning actress Rosemary Harris. Her career spans over sixty years. She's most well known to modern audiences as Aunt May in the original Spider-Man trilogy of films.

Actor and educator Flonnie T. Anderson was the first African-American to act and direct in the Little Theatre. She also taught for over 30 years in local schools.

The display also honors Nell Davis Britton - an author and slam poet who scores musicals, including one about the master brickmaker George Henry Black, whose Winston-Salem property is in the National Register of Historic Places.

It also includes sculptor Earline King, who died in 2011, whose work appeared in galleries across the globe.

Mayor Allen Joines will reveal the display at Winston Square Park at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2018.

Correction: The audio version of this story included an incorrect pronounciation. Earline King is pronounced uhr-LEEN King.