Artist Rashaun Rucker, Exhibition Juror, Gives Talk at Print Austin
The Contemporary Print--Artist Talk with Exhibition Juror Rashaun Rucker
The Art Galleries at Austin Community College and Print Austin invite you to join us for this hybrid event in which printmaker Rashaun Rucker will talk about his artistic practice and work from 5:30pm - 6:30pm in HLC 2.1550 on ACC Highland Campus.
This talk is held in conjunction with our newest exhibition The Contemporary Print for which Rashaun Rucker is the 2023 juror. The exhibition is a survey of traditional printmaking techniques and innovative approaches in contemporary printmaking.
Rashaun Rucker at Print Austin
ABOUT OUR JUROR: 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 12 and Clairmount. His work was recently featured in HBO’s celebrated series Random Acts of Flyness and Native Son. In 2019 Rucker was awarded the Red Bull Arts Detroit micro grant and was named a Kresge Arts Fellow for his drawing practice. In 2020 Rucker was named A Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee. Rucker was a 2021 resident at the International Studios and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York and is currently a Mellon Resident at the University of Michigan Institute of Humanities. Rucker’s diverse work is represented in numerous public and private collections.
