GSU art professor to speak in Union Museum February 8
Grambling State University art professor Rodrecas Davis will discuss the life and art of Clementine Hunter on Saturday, February 8, at 11 a.m. in the Union Museum of History and Art. A display of 50 original Hunter artworks will be on display in the museum at that time. The talk is free and open to the public. The museum is located at 211 N. Main St., Farmerville, Louisiana.
Davis is head of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at GSU. A native of Monroe, Georgia, 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. His work has been featured in the Politics Issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, ColorLines, and over 60 exhibitions. He is an inaugural recipient of the Take Notice Fund Grant, awarded by the National Performance Network (Ford Foundation).