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    Felicia Forte

    Jan 24, 2020 5 minutes

    A little over half a century ago, Detroit was the place to be. In the eyes of the wider world at least, this was the “Motor City”, the home of Motown, Aretha Franklin and Iggy Pop, not to mention Diego Rivera’s murals at the Detroit Institute of Art. The demise of the car industry and the middle-class flight to the suburbs, however, saw the midwestern US city spiral into bankruptcy in 2013. On the plus side, the resulting wealth of cheap real estate has encouraged an influx of enterprising creative types.

    And it is here that Felicia Forte finds herself after a rather peripatetic life to date. “My partner and I bought a house a year ago,” she explains. “We attempted to have a home studio, which I haven’t had for a really long time, but the

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