- DR. CAMEA DAVIS IS AN ARTIST AND ARTS BASED QUALITATIVE RESEARCHER. HER EXPERTISE IS IN CRITICAL POETIC INQUIRY, A CREATIVE, ANALYTIC METHODOLOGY CAPABLE OF AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF MINORITIZED POPULATIONS WHILE AIDING THE RESEARCHER IN BEING AN ACTIVE WITNESS OF PARTICIPANTS’ STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE, INCLUSION, AND VISIBILITY.
- DAVIS ALSO PERFORMED AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED FIRST WAVE HIP HOP ARTS LEARNING COMMUNITY AND THEATRE ENSEMBLE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON. DURING HER TIME IN FIRST WAVE, SHE TOURED NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY PERFORMING DYNAMIC SPOKEN WORD POETRY AND LEADING WORKSHOPS ON COMMUNITY Engagement AND ART.
- SHE CONTINUES TO USE SPOKEN WORD POETRY AS AN ANALYTIC TOOL FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON CRUCIAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT THE LIVES AND LEARNING OF MINORITIZED PERSONS.
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In 2014, the Lilly Endowment of the Arts sponsored Davis’ tour of Europe during which she wrote travel poems about the nation’s iconic art for inclusion in an English Language Arts curriculum for middle level learners.
Davis is also a long-standing public spoken word artist and host. She has been featured at numerous performance venues including Hi-ARTS Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Brave New Voices international youth festival, Line Breaks Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Tedx Evansville, and many other venues.
Davis is also a long-standing public spoken word artist and host. She has been featured at numerous performance venues including Hi-ARTS Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Brave New Voices international youth festival, Line Breaks Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Tedx Evansville, and many other venues.