Greater Chicago Area
Felicia Holman is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and traveler who writes essays / reflections and reviews on art, culture, travel and wellness. Her written work has been published on such platforms as SeeChicagoDance.org, Sixty Inches From Center and Public Media Institute. Felicia is also a former arts administrator and co-founder of Afrodiasporic performance collective, Honey Pot Performance (c. 2001). Felicia's recent projects include a 2025 Chicago Critics Table Fellowship with UChicago's Arts + Public Life, a 2024 Soham Sunset Artist Residency and a 2020-2022 RADLOW Fellowship with Threewalls.
Recent projects include: Chicago Critics Table Fellowship @ APL/UChicago (2025), Soham Sunset Artist-in-Residence (2024), Artist-in-Residence @ Empire of Dirt Residency (2022-2024), RADLOW Artist Fellowship @ Threewalls (2020-2022), "The Communication Glow Up" (Nov. 2019), Public Newsroom Guest Curator @ City Bureau (Fall 2019), "Envisioning Equity Conference" Communication Session facilitator, (Mar. 2019), visiting presenter at South Shore International College Prep (Sep. 2018), "Moving Dialogs: Culture in Motion" wrap up (Aug-Sep. 2018), visiting presenter at TRACE (Jun. 2018), "Papelitos Guardados/Paper Memories: South Shore" workshop series facilitator (Jun-Sep. 2018), "Crafting A Creative Career" workshop (Feb. 2018).
Crafting, presenting and marketing critical performance and public humanities programming which advances intimate and nuanced stories of humanity. Previous admin duties included: editor/publisher of 'HPP News' (monthly e-newsletter), media/PR contact, stage / house manager.
Directed Links Hall's artist performance rental program ("Linkage Partnerships"), representing over 70% of Links Hall's annual earned income.
Directed and supported external messaging (Marketing & PR) for Links Hall artists and programs. Worked closely with Links Hall's Production/ Programming and Development teams to support Links' mission, programming and development goals. Role highlights include: Composed Annual Appeal letter which exceeded the campaign's goal by $2,000 (Nov. 2017), provided vital logistic & marketing support for international visiting presentations "Bridge Dance Festival" (April-May 2018) and "As Much As You Want" (May 2018), steered marketing/PR strategy for Links' annual benefit "THAW" (March 2018; 5th anniversary of partnership w/Constellation) and Links Hall's 40th anniversary season (August 2018 - June 2019), staff producer for 'Links to Haiti' artistic exchange trip (Dec. 27, 2018 - Jan. 4, 2019).
In addition to the operational / logistic support I provided in my previous 'Studio Manager' role, as Artist Services Manager, I provided "A & R" and marketing support for presenting artists at Links Hall.
The Art Leaders of Color Network (ALCN) is a Chicago-based collective, exchanging programming insights and ideas as Black people working in administrative & curatorial capacities in the art world. ALCN's MISSION is to deliver critical presentation insights and initiatives that enlighten and empower artists/ audiences/ critics/ producers/ venues/ donors & funders to seek and support boundary-pushing arts programming. For more info, visit www.thealcn.com.
"Everyone in the Chicago performing arts scenes knows Felicia Holman. As a member and marketing & communications manager for Honey Pot Performance, Felicia makes sure to support artists from all around the city. She has also curated exhibitions at places like Columbia College as she works to support artists in her day job at Links Hall, one of the city’s established venues for community-based and emerging artists. Moreover, Felicia is a vibrant and fiercely intelligent person whose knowledge of music -- particularly Prince -- rivals that of any leading music critic or scholar. Her character, “Felicia,” is a Gen X'er, Black cis-femme, Cerebral/Artistic/Resourceful Social Butterfly, still "finding herself". She (re)negotiates her dynamic metrics of personal/professional success based on the empirical lessons/skills gleaned during her homeschooled Latch Key Kid upbringing on the Southside of Chicago."