About

BIO

Felicia Burse was born and still lives in north Louisiana.  She graduated with a Bachelor of General Studies with a concentration in Arts and a minor in Psychology from Louisiana Tech University in 2013, and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Southern University in New Orleans (SUNO) in 2018.   During her undergraduate years, she took classes in watercolor, drawing, foundations of architecture, photography, art history from prehistoric to the present, women in art history, and American art history.  Her grad work includes coursework in African diaspora art, curatorship, collections management, and museums’ relationships with their communities. 

She interned at the North Central Louisiana Arts Council in 2015, and at Louisiana Tech’s Special Collections, Manuscripts, and Archives (SCMA) dept during the 2017-2018 school year.  She helped curate the Rites of Passage: Africa exhibit at SUNO’s library in 2017 and re-imagined The Camp Ruston Collection exhibit while at the SCMA.  Her artwork has been exhibited in the 2008 high school art competition at Grambling State University, the Louisiana Tech School of Architecture student show in 2009, and in the Louisiana Peach Festival in 2019, where she placed second in the adult mixed-media category.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

When I want to communicate a message, sometimes I find it best to communicate visually as opposed to verbally or through the written word.  I have a minor in Psychology, and through my work, I want the viewer to see how I am responding to both my inner world and the outer world.  I like storytelling and playing with composition, focusing on color and negative space, to create the visuals that communicate how I’m feeling and/or to document a certain event or environment.  Through my art, the audience can learn about my commentary on the world, my feelings, and my relationship with Louisiana culture.

*Note: I’m not accepting requests for commissioned work at this time.*