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Artist News: Rashaun Rucker's Work on View at the Smithsonian and University of Michigan

Rashaun Rucker’s work is in two new exhibitions, Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American Art & Culture, and Never Free to Rest, opening September 13, at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities.

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EXHIBITION DETAILS:

RECKONING: PROTEST. DEFIANCE. RESILIENCE.
September 10 - TBA
National Museum of African American History and Culture
1400 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC
4th Floor, Visual Art and the American Experience
Located in the museum’s Visual Art and the American Experience space, the exhibition explores the Black Lives Matter movement, violence against African Americans, and how art depicts Black resistance, resilience, and protest. The the newly acquired portrait of Breonna Taylor painted by renowned artist Amy Sherald is on view in the exhibition until May.

NEVER FREE TO REST
September 13 - October 15, 2021
Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer
Free and open to the public
Special Viewing: Rashaun Rucker in Conversation with curator Amanda Krugliak
September 22, 2021
Gallery opens at 6:30pm, Conversation begins at 7pm

Rashaun Rucker, Left at First Light, on view at the University of Michigan

Rashaun Rucker, Psychological Redlining (13 Studies), Smithsonian Museum permanent collection