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Your mother, and the rest of TV-viewing America, recognize him from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Get a Room With Carson & Thom, and appearances on shows with mononym hosts, like Oprah and Ellen. Tina Fey and Jennifer Lopez are clients. Brands like Riverhouse, Manhattan's first premium LEED-certified condo tower, Radio City Music Hall, Delta Air Lines, and the like consider him a partner. But designers know him as a sage businessman. Filicia, who parlayed his design-business success into ventures like Sedgwick & Brattle (the showroom in the New York Design Center that also carries his eponymous home line) is, at heart, a mix of these parts: businessman, performer, and, lest you forget, a professionally trained interior designer with a firm celebrating 20 years in business this fall.
Filicia graduated from Syracuse University with—"believe it or not," says Filicia, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design before embarking on his career at firms including Parish-Hadley, Inc., Robert Metzger Interiors, and Bilhuber and Associates for three and a half t
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Felicia Thomas is a mixed media artist and published author.
Originally from Kent, she has made her home in county Kerry where she has lived for thirty two years.
In 2007 she discovered mixed media as an art form and hasn’t looked back.
Having raised her family and worked in retail, she began teaching art classes in 2013.
Initially she taught children’s classes, all the while practicing and learning more about her chosen medium. This lead working with adult groups, and with people with additional needs. Felicia has also worked with elderly people suffering from dementia.
She established a personal style and started to sell her art work as prints, stationery and home wares to gift shops. She currently supplies five shops in Munster.
In 2013 she had an accident in which she lost 80% use of her right (dominant) hand.
Through patience and practising mindfulness she found herself not only able to continue painting, but found her mental health and positivity flourishing from the practise.
She continued her study of positivity, visualisation and mindfulness and began to
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Interviewee: Felicia Thomas
Interviewer: Suzanne Degnats
Date of Interview: December 12, 2012
Format: WAV file, transcript
Length of Interview: 84 minutes
Length of Transcription: 36 pages
Click here to hear the interview and read the transcript.
Biography:
Ms. Felicia Thomas was born on September 22, 1979, in Manning, South Carolina to a family of African American heritage. As a child, Ms. Thomas attended the African Methodist Episcopal church (AME). In her teens, she began independently exploring her faith and did not claim any religious affiliation. After attending Howard University and into her twenties, Ms. Thomas moved to Savannah. She actively attended and participated in a Pentecostal church and later a non-denominational church, but controversies in both communities eventually led her to abandon church attendance altogether. These negative experiences caused a major shift in Ms. Thomas’s religious orientation and spurred her personal religious reflection and exploration. At the time of the interview, Ms. Thomas considered herself spiritual, although she co
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