1. In reaction to a perceived lack of coverage of black art, Alonzo Davis became an advocate for black art and artists.
13 Facts About Alonzo Davis
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Alonzo Davis was born on February 2,1942, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Alonzo Davis grew up near Tuskegee University where his father was a professor of psychology.
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Alonzo Davis's family moved from Tuskegee, Alabama to Los Angeles, California in 1955 where he was exposed to Asian art.
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Alonzo Davis became a practitioner of Zen meditation although he did not convert to Buddhism.
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Alonzo Davis moved to Sacramento in 1987, and to a residency in Hawaii in 1988.
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Alonzo Davis later moved to Hyattsville, Maryland, and died at a hospital in nearby Largo, Maryland, on January 27,2025, at the age of 82.
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The Alonzo Davis brothers got the idea for opening the Brockman Gallery during the drive back to Southern California from the 1966 Meredith March in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Alonzo Davis taught at Crenshaw High School until 1970 when he left to teach at series of schools including Manual Arts High School, Mount Saint Antonio College, Pasadena City College, and UCLA.
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From 1991 to 1992, Alonzo Davis taught at the San Antonio Art Institute.
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Alonzo Davis then served as dean of the Memphis College of Art from 1993 to 2002.
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Alonzo Davis painted a mural, Eye on '84, one of the ten murals commissioned under Los Angeles' 1984 Olympic Murals project.
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Alonzo Davis's mural was located on the southbound I-110 at the Third Street on-ramp across from Judy Baca's Hitting the Wall.