Damon Davis

Damon Davis is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist who works and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. His scope includes illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art. His most identifiable work, All Hands on Deck, helped shape public perception of the Ferguson Uprising as part of the broader international human rights movement. Davis has work in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History, and has exhibited at the MoCADA and San Diego Contemporary Museum of Art. Davis is founder of independent music and art imprint, Far Fetched. He is a recipient of The Riverfront Times Master Mind Award (2013), and Best Hip Hop Producer SLUMfest Award (2014). The documentary short A Story To Tell (2013), which profiled Davis, his work and creative process, won an Emmy Award Mid America for Best Short Form Program. Whose Streets? is his first foray into feature-length documentary; Filmmaker Magazine selected him and Director Sabaah Jordan for their 2016 “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Davis is a 2015 Firelight Media Producers Lab Fellow and a 2016 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab Fellow at Skywalker Sound.