Jorge Felix

Jorge Félix is an artist, cultural administrator and community curator native of Caguas, Puerto Rico and resident of Chicago since 1993. Félix has a B.A. in visual arts communications from Sacred Heart University, Santurce, Puerto Rico (1990), an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University, Ohio (1993) and an M.A. of Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001). Félix works in arts commissions and as an independent curator and nonprofit consultant with a focus in studio-arts education and arts and cultural integration in educational programming.

Jorge Félix engages in community work while serving on review panels for city and state grants as well as travels nationally and internationally participating in panels and conversations addressing students in lectures. Felix volunteered serving in advisory boards for organizations such as Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, COOP Image, Association of Latino Men for Action (ALMA), the Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness, En las Tablas Performing Arts Center and others. Felix passion for community service started at an early age while serving the community by means of his evangelical ministry. Now Felix continues his commitment to social service through the arts, cultural education and community development. Félix is active within the arts and museum community of Chicago with emphasis in the Puerto Rican and Latino communities. Felix chaired the Greater Humboldt Park’s Building Community Through the Arts Task Force (2004-2007)..Félix was co-founder of Boricua PRIDE (2011), Félix served for three years in advisory capacity of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs’ MVP (Multicultural Voices and Perspectives) Series. Félix is co-founder of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, a consortium of 28 Chicago ethnic museums.

Félix maintains an active studio and works as a scenic designer for several theater companies. Félix received a the Chicago After Dark Award 2007 for Outstanding Achievement in Set Design for UrbanTheater’s production 'Eulogy for a Small Time Thief', and received outstanding reviews for his design in the production of Jose Rivera’s BrainPeople. In 2010 Propeller Fund awarded Félix an independent curatorial grant toward his research for the exhibit ChicagoRICANS. The Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness Task Force also commissioned him with the development of the exhibit Everyone Matters, which deals with issues of mental health in the Latino Chicago community and broke attendance records at the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture.

Félix volunteers find homes for abandoned pets and he is an avid gardener. You can find more information about him in Facebook .