Rate My Professor Rodrecas Davis

Rodrecas Davis serves as a tenured Associate Professor of Art and Department Head of the Visual and Performing Arts at Grambling State University. A native of Monroe, Georgia, he graduated in 2006 from the University of Georgia Fine Arts program with an emphasis on drawing and painting. As a mixed-media artist, Davis's practice centers on drawing and painting, incorporating wordplay, lyrics, hip-hop culture, life in the American South, and the legacy of African history and spirituality. His artwork has appeared in the Politics Issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters and ColorLines, as well as over 100 exhibitions, including What it Look Like (W.I.L.L.) at the LSMSA Sharon Turcan Gahagan Art Gallery in 2026, Trismegistus: In the Garden at the Masur Museum of Art, and numerous others. Davis has also served as a juror for the 77th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition at the Swope Art Museum in Indiana.

In addition to his artistic endeavors, Davis has a background in arts journalism as a former columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald and Code Z Online: Black Visual Culture Now, where he provided academic and formal reviews of the arts. He has presented papers at academic conferences, including the HUIC Conference on manifestations of hip-hop culture in the visual arts. Among his honors, Davis is an inaugural recipient of the Take Notice Fund Grant awarded by the National Performance Network and Ford Foundation. In 2025, he was selected for a highly competitive Creative Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, chosen from 355 global applicants as one of only 45 residents. He delivered a public lecture on the life and art of Clementine Hunter at the Union Museum of History and Art in February 2025. Through his leadership in the Visual and Performing Arts department and consistent creative output, Davis contributes significantly to arts education and cultural discourse at Grambling State University and in the broader artistic community.