2020-2022 Threewalls RaDLOW fellow Felicia Holman is a native Chicagoan, independent cultural producer/facilitator, and a co-founder of Afrodiasporic feminist creative collective Honey Pot Performance. She is also a 2020-2021 Re:Place Research and Performance resident artist and a member of the Co-Prosperity Programming Committee (CoPro ProCo).
Felicia's creative/ professional and social practices are firmly grounded in critical thought, intersectionality, community building and embodied storytelling. Her recent projects include commissioned performances for Illinois Humanities and the 5th annual Instigation Festival, as well as written contributions at See Chicago Dance, Performance Response Journal, 6018North, and The Quarantine Times (published by the Public Media Institute). Felicia relishes her artrepreneurial life and sums it up in 3 words---"Creator, Connector, Conduit".
DIY / self-presenting performing artists.
"Don't cast your pearls before swine", "Don't be unequally yoked", and "Scratch your own itch"! 💯
I have a pantheon of she/heroes, but the one that leads the pack is Prince Rogers Nelson. He has been my muse and hero since I was 11 years old. His singularity as both a commercial AND independent Black interdisciplinary artist from the midwest affirms my own intersectional identities.
My discernment.
Prince songs (music & lyrics).
Basic waist-hula hooping.
The laughing Tracee Ellis-Ross.