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Becci Davis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Visual Art at Brown University. She is a mother and conceptual artist whose work draws inspiration from nature, archives, memory, and the connections to place. Originally from Georgia, she now resides in Providence, Rhode Island. Davis engages in a research-based practice that creates new histories of personal geography through the accumulation of images and text that occupy space within the body. Her work includes a photographic essay project titled 'Ode to Home', which explores her hometown through a series of photographs and archival materials. She is also working on 'Shadow Dixie', a project documenting a performance series that highlights the significance of Confederate monuments in Georgia. Davis has received numerous accolades, including the Public Humanities Scholar Award from RI Humanities and the Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. She actively contributes to various boards, including Emergent Forest, which focuses on green burial, and Dirt Palace Public Projects, a Feminist art space.
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