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.

On Thursday April 29 Senghor Reid and Rashaun Rucker had a virtual discussion on Zoom to talk about their most recent bodies of work and the intersections in their individual practices. The talk was hosted by Melannie Chard and M Contemporary Art gallery in Ferndale, Detroit, Michigan.

Join us on Thursday April 29 at 6 PM EST via Zoom for an exclusive conversation between gallery artists Rashaun Rucker and Senghor Reid.

An essay about Rashaun Rucker’s upcoming exhibition Up From the Red Clay by Juana Williams.

In first exhibition of his drawings in five years, Rucker explores the connections between rock pigeons and African-American males — “marginalized person, marginalized animal,” says Rucker.

The Vanguard Artist Collective is a semi-formal nod to pioneering Chicago-based black art collectives like the Organization of Black American Culture and AfriCOBRA, which were founded during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

“We push each other to be better artists and better people — even when it’s critical,” says Rucker.

M Contemporary Art was a part of Detroit Art Week from July 16 - July 21, 2019 with a lineup of events including the opening of Brian Day’s “A Moment Away,” a collection visit at the Burris Law offices, and studio tours with Senghor Reid, Scott Vincent Campbell and Robert Mirek.