Born and raised in the American South, Rucker reminisces on the church as a space for communal gathering, familial intimacy, and identity development.

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.