Program Description

Artist-led Tour & Reception:
Wednesday, March 4, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts

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.