Damon Davis (born 1985) is a multi-media American artist, musician and
filmmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri. His 2014 public art
installation "All Hands on Deck" has been collected in the National
Museum of African American History and Culture. He is also a founder
of Far-Fetched, a St. Louis-based artist collective, and co-director
of Whose Streets?, a documentary on the Ferguson unrest following
police officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The
film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.The child of a
sharecropper (his mother) and a Black Panther (his father), Davis grew
up in East St. Louis. He attended St. Louis University, initially
majoring in fine arts but graduating with a degree in
communications.Davis has worked as a professional artist since
2010.Davis formed the hiphop duo Scriptz 'N Screwz in 2011, in which
he participated using the stage name LooseScrewz. He next founded
artist collective and record label Far-Fetched, in 2013 releasing an
album eklektrip with collaborator Corey Williams (stage name Thelonius
Kryptonite). In 2016, Davis began releasing music under his own name,
with a three-part album cycle focused on Afrofuturist themes,
including science fiction, Creole mysticism and "alternative
blackness", in his words.
filmmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri. His 2014 public art
installation "All Hands on Deck" has been collected in the National
Museum of African American History and Culture. He is also a founder
of Far-Fetched, a St. Louis-based artist collective, and co-director
of Whose Streets?, a documentary on the Ferguson unrest following
police officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The
film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.The child of a
sharecropper (his mother) and a Black Panther (his father), Davis grew
up in East St. Louis. He attended St. Louis University, initially
majoring in fine arts but graduating with a degree in
communications.Davis has worked as a professional artist since
2010.Davis formed the hiphop duo Scriptz 'N Screwz in 2011, in which
he participated using the stage name LooseScrewz. He next founded
artist collective and record label Far-Fetched, in 2013 releasing an
album eklektrip with collaborator Corey Williams (stage name Thelonius
Kryptonite). In 2016, Davis began releasing music under his own name,
with a three-part album cycle focused on Afrofuturist themes,
including science fiction, Creole mysticism and "alternative
blackness", in his words.
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