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.

Through utter shock, through grief, through disgust, through fear, through ANGER, through heartbreak -- through it all, we work. Through this chaos, we work. For our families, our communities, our sanctuaries, we work. Through exhaustion, we work. Through a pandemic, we are working.