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.

Every four years since 1963, a small group of students has traveled to New York City, with University funds, to purchase art for Wake Forest’s Student Union art collection. They are charged with choosing works that reflect the times.