A Canvas for the Community: Studio 136

High Point's Voices Discovered · Aug 26, 2026 · 9m

What does it take to build a creative economy in a mid-sized city? Sometimes, it starts with one teacher deciding the gap she kept seeing was hers to fill.

Page Gleeson, a longtime High Point art educator, spent years watching talented local artists drive to Winston-Salem or Greensboro just to find studio space or a place to show their work. Interior designers and showrooms weren't looking at local art — not because it wasn't good, but because there was nowhere for them to see it.

So Page went through the Artful Business Cohort with the High Point Arts Council, earned her LLC, and opened…