Rashaun Rucker
November 3 through November 28, 2020
Kresge Artist Fellow Talk: Thursday, November 12, 12-1pm
Detroit Free Press Article:
'Resting in Black': Artist creates socially conscious works about Black life in America by Duante Beddingfield
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2020/11/26/rashaun-rucker-resting-in-black-billboard-woodward-wayne-state-art/6271788002/?fbclid=IwAR1ZdxMyko60bQjDv8iktvLOUaQbP_vzUCznJ9VQd9GIDTxGNw-xKomaMNI
IN THE AIR: VOICES FROM DETROIT AND BEYOND features the third billboard installation with artwork created by Rashaun Rucker, on view November 3 through 28, 2020. To accompany the piece, an online artist talk will be on Thursday, November 12, 12-1pm.
Rashaun Rucker (b. 1978, Winston-Salem, NC) is a product of North Carolina Central University and Marygrove College. He makes photographs, prints and drawings and has won more than 40 national and state awards for his work. In 2008 Rucker became the first African American to be named Michigan Press Photographer of the Year. He also won a national Emmy Award in 2008 for documentary photography on the pit bull culture in Detroit. Rucker was a Maynard Fellow at Harvard in 2009 and a Hearst visiting professional in the journalism department at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013. In 2014 Rucker was awarded an artist residency at the Red Bull House of Art. In 2016 Rucker was honored as a Modern Man by Black Enterprise magazine. In 2017 Rucker created the original artwork for the critically acclaimed Detroit Free Press documentary 12th and Clairmount. His work was recently featured in HBO’s celebrated series “Random Acts of Flyness” and the movie “Native Son”. In 2019 Rucker was the first awardee Red Bull Arts Detroit grant and was named a Kresge Arts Fellow for his drawing practice. In 2020 Rucker was named a Sustainable Arts Foundation awardee. Rucker’s diverse work is represented in numerous public and private collections.
Design by Rashaun Rucker, on exhibit from November 3 through 28, 2020; S. Woodward and E. Canfield, Detroit
