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 Threewalls RaDLab fellow. Felicia's creative/ professional and social practices are firmly grounded in critical thought, intersectionality, community building and embodied storytelling. Her most recent published works include reviews for See Chicago Dance and Performance Response Journal, as well as a guest essay at The Quarantine Times (published by the Public Media Institute). Felicia relishes her artrepreneurial life and sums it up in 3 words – "Creator, Connector, Conduit".

Susan Musich

Twenty years as an educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago communicating fresh perspectives to non-specialist audiences infuse my approach to writing about art. Background research and reflection on the subject in relation to its contexts underpin my writing. This process supplements information with ideas to enhance the reader’s experience of and ability to evaluate the art.  

A set of open-ended questions drive my criticism: How does the artwork or exhibition engage contemporary audiences—and why? What elements of the work’s social and art historical context demand consideration? To what extent is it possible to interpret the artist’s larger intentions? Guided by these fundamental questions, my art writing offers readers a playing field for exploring art and its relationship to contemporary society, and for arriving at their own provisional conclusions.