Felicia Greenlee was born in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her family would settle back in their hometown of Seneca, South Carolina in 1979.
After graduating from Clemson in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she began working as a textile designer for La France Industries in 1994. During her employment with LaFrance Industries in 1995, she was invited to participate in a traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “Black Women: Achievement Against the Odds”.
Marrying her high school sweetheart in 1995 and with the birth of their son in 1997, Felicia decided to become a stay-at-home mom and began freelancing as a design consultant. She worked with several textile companies on the east coast and started her own home décor line. In an effort to expand her home décor line, she entered a licensing agreement with a textile company in 2003. She would license her artwork in other markets and eventually walked away from the textile industry. No longer concentrating on textiles, she began creating a large volume of watercolor and colored pencil works and speaking about her work to young students in her spare time.
Today, she devotes her time to creating her “wood collages”. She finds it challenging to find shows relating to the black experience in America. Although, the outcry of social injustices has sparked some conversation in the arts, it is still few and far between. No matter the circumstances, Felicia will continue to do what she loves, creating art that invokes social change.
Felicia and her husband still reside in Seneca, South Carolina.
After graduating from Clemson in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she began working as a textile designer for La France Industries in 1994. During her employment with LaFrance Industries in 1995, she was invited to participate in a traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “Black Women: Achievement Against the Odds”.
Marrying her high school sweetheart in 1995 and with the birth of their son in 1997, Felicia decided to become a stay-at-home mom and began freelancing as a design consultant. She worked with several textile companies on the east coast and started her own home décor line. In an effort to expand her home décor line, she entered a licensing agreement with a textile company in 2003. She would license her artwork in other markets and eventually walked away from the textile industry. No longer concentrating on textiles, she began creating a large volume of watercolor and colored pencil works and speaking about her work to young students in her spare time.
Today, she devotes her time to creating her “wood collages”. She finds it challenging to find shows relating to the black experience in America. Although, the outcry of social injustices has sparked some conversation in the arts, it is still few and far between. No matter the circumstances, Felicia will continue to do what she loves, creating art that invokes social change.
Felicia and her husband still reside in Seneca, South Carolina.