Cameron Davis
Cameron Davis is a painter and University of Vermont Senior Lecturer, Emerita, with the Department of Art & Art History where she taught Drawing, Painting, and Perspectives on Making. Davis was also a UVM Environmental Humanities Fellow and Environmental Program Affiliate where she taught & advised theses on Art & Ecology.
Her work explores notions of presence in nature within the formal language of painting. She is interested in frameworks, conceptually and through the painting practice, that situate humans within the web of life. Plant patterns serve as both a reference to life, and the basis for improvisational responses that in themselves reveal how life works; ecosystems of relationships that unfold through mutual transformations. (Andreas Weber) In the case of a painting, ideas, surface, mark, color, and shape, generate felt structures with emergent outcomes. Davis’ work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections nationally.
The Art of Belonging | Emergent Universe Oratorio
Journal Article
The Emergent Universe Oratorio (EUO) is a musical and poetic composition for chorus, orchestra, and orator, of the Great Story of our vast evolving Universe, the new scientific cosmology of our cosmic birth, to galaxies, stars, Earth, life, of human emergence and transformation. It is a response to the greatest crisis in the history of humanity, and if we can respond as one thread in the tapestry of living Earth, it is also its greatest opportunity.