{"id":7491,"date":"2018-05-07T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2018-05-10T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:29:11","slug":"paul-rucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/paul-rucker\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3134\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7491-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/paulrucker.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/paulrucker.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/paulrucker.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_7597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7597\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Studio-Shot-mike-morgan_150618_7173.jpg?resize=650%2C974&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Studio-Shot-mike-morgan_150618_7173.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Studio-Shot-mike-morgan_150618_7173.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Studio-Shot-mike-morgan_150618_7173.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Rucker in Visual Art and Sound Studio at Creative Alliance. Photo by Mike Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulrucker.com\/\">Paul Rucker<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines media, integrating live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art. His work is the product of a rich interactive process, through which he investigates community impacts, human rights issues, historical research, and basic human emotions surrounding particular subject matter. Much of his current work focuses on the Prison Industrial Complex and the many issues accompanying incarceration in its relationship to slavery. He has presented performances and visual art exhibitions across the country and has collaborated with educational institutions to address the issue of mass incarceration. Presentations have taken place in schools, active prisons and also inactive prisons such as Alcatraz. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His largest installation to date, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rewindexhibition.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REWIND<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, garnered praise from Baltimore Magazine awarding Paul \u201cBest Artist 2015.\u201d Additionally, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rewindexhibition.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REWIND<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received \u201cBest Solo Show 2015\u201d and \u201c#1 Art Show of 2015\u201d from Baltimore City Paper, reviews by The Huffington Post, Artnet News, Washington Post, The Root, and The Real News Network.\u00a0 Rucker has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies for visual art and music. He is a 2012 Creative Capital Grantee in visual art as well as a 2014 MAP (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi-Arts Production)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fund Grantee for performance. In 2015 he received a prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters &amp; Sculptors Grant as well as the Mary Sawyer Baker Award. In 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, for which he is the first artist in residence at the new National Museum of African American Culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residencies include MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross Foundation, Art OMI, Banff Centre, Pilchuck Glass School, Rauschenberg Residency, Joan Mitchell Residency, Hemera Artist Retreat, Air Serembe, Creative Alliance, and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.\u00a0 In 2013-2015, he was the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at the Maryland Institute College of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was most recently awarded a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, TED Fellowship, and the Arts Innovator Award from the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fall, Rucker&#8217;s work will be featured at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in its inaugural exhibition, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Declaration<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Rucker is a iCubed Visiting Arts Fellow embedded at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7598\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7598\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=696%2C463&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=1068%2C711&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?resize=631%2C420&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/02-Rucker_Birth_of_a_Nation_Project.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birth of a Nation Project &#8211; Detail, Mannequins, Kente Cloth, Camouflage, Spandex, Satin, and Artifacts, 2015<br \/>Birth of a Nation Project: During 2015, I created at least one new Ku Klux Klan robe a week. I re-imagined KKK robes in Kente cloth, camouflage, white satin, and other fabrics. I created robes for infants, toddlers, teens, and adult men and women.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7599\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7599\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=640%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=1024%2C343&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=300%2C101&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=768%2C257&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=696%2C233&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=1068%2C358&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?resize=1253%2C420&amp;ssl=1 1253w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/03-Rucker_September-15-1963_Birmingham-Alabama.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 15, 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, 16&#8243; x 48&#8243; x 2&#8243;, Spruce, Purfling, Acrylic, 2013<br \/>One of a series of wood sculptures I created to acknowledge victims of racially motivated violence and significant civil rights events. This work represents the Alabama church bombing and deaths of four young girls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/paulrucker.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listPaul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines media, integrating live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art. 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