Mellisa Felix served as executive curator at [sm]art Curators, a non-profit initiative curating residencies in Italy, international exhibitions, and annual festivals.
In 2021 Mell chaired the [sm]art Compositions, a distinguished international Committee of curators composed of artists, academics, and cultural leaders across disciplines with focus on Visual Art, Literature, Poetry, Performance Art, Public Art, Photography, and Dance.
Mell has enjoyed a distinguished career teaching in academia as associate professor of writing at the University of Maryland, (Global Campus), based in the UK.
She is a novelist in the process of querying her Young Adult novel, The Code of Them All.
Mellisa has placed in the top three in international writing contests, such as Gotham Writer’s Group/Serendipity Literary Agency YA Novel Discovery, and she has worked on her novels at writing residencies abroad, to include the Palazzo Rinaldi artists residency in Italy.