Rodrecas Davis

A native of Monroe, Georgia, Rodrecas Davis is a 2006 graduate of the University of Georgia Fine Arts program, with an emphasis on drawing and painting. Primarily a mixed media artist, Davis is also a former columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald and Code Z Online: Black Visual Culture Now. Davis has presented papers at several academic conferences, including the HUIC Conference (Hawaii University International Conferences) and Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, where he discussed manifestations of Hip-Hop culture in the visual arts. His work has been featured in the Politics Issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, ColorLines, and in over 100 exhibitions. Davis is a professor and Head of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Grambling State University, in Grambling, Louisiana. An inaugural recipient of the Take Notice Fund Grant, awarded by the National Performance Network (Ford Foundation). Davis served as juror of the 77th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition at the Swope Art Museum (IN) and was most recently awarded a Creative Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences for Arts & Culture Administrators.