Felicia Megginson: Re-Framing Nature
March 4, 2026–
September 12, 2026
Felicia Megginson, "Manifestation- Woodlands 4," 2003. Courtesy of the artist.
Felicia Megginson: Re-Framing Nature
March 4, 2026–
September 12, 2026
Reilly Gallery Smith Center for the Arts
Exhibition Opening Details
Artist-led Tour & Reception
Wednesday, March 4, 5pm
Reilly Gallery Smith Center for the Arts
About the Exhibition
Felicia Megginson’s solo exhibition transforms self-portraiture into an exploration of the artist’s dynamic relationship with the natural world. Using multi-exposure photography and shadow play, she layers her own image with the landscape, dissolving distinctions between human presence and environment. Nature is not presented as a distant backdrop. Instead, Megginson embeds herself within place, intertwining her form with living systems.
Re-Framing Nature foregrounds the act of making as much as the resulting image, inviting viewers to consider how images are constructed, altered, and understood—and how process itself can shape interpretation. As skin meets bark and shadow folds into light, the works embrace convergence, intricate textures, and poetic blur, revealing spatial dimensions that resist a visual order built on control, one that keeps us separate from nature and other living systems.
Organized by PCG Director Carol Stakenas.
About the Artist
Felicia Megginson is a Providence-based artist whose creative practice explores themes of identity, place, and lived experiences. She holds an M.A. in Studio Art from New York University and has participated in numerous exhibitions, fellowships, and residencies. Her work was featured in Nine Moments for Now (2018) and Harlem Found Ways (2017) at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard. She was also part of Debtfair, Occupy Museums’ contribution to the 2017 Whitney Biennial. She was selected to participate in the Bronx Museum of Art’s Artist in the Marketplace program and received a Polaroid film grant. She has participated in numerous residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL; Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Moose Lake, MN; Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY; Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY; and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, among others. Her work has appeared in Bomb magazine, Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs (2002), Studio magazine (The Studio Museum in Harlem), and TRANSITION: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora (Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University). Felicia has served on the Board of Directors at AS220 and taught courses on visual culture and image-making at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Supporters
Funding for this exhibition is generously provided by Providence College’s Division of Academic Affairs. In-kind support provided by Providence College’s Department of Art & Art History.
Installation Images
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Felicia Megginson, "Manifestation – Water Series 2," 2003. Courtesy of the artist.
