Paul Rucker - Fall Update

[Paul Rucker]

Dear Friends,

 

This weekend, I’ll be a featured speaker/artist at the Race, Education, and Criminal Justice Conference at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA (see below for details).

 

I’m currently at Headlands Center for the Arts for a residency. It’s beautiful, and I feel very fortunate to be here. I’m developing my Creative Capital project, Recapitulation.

Previews of some of this work will take place early next year.

 

I just received the Conductive Garboil Grant, which Su Job created before her untimely death in 2008. A special thank you to her for her vision and generosity. This grant is awarded to artists that, “demonstrate a profound ability to challenge the limits of conductive creative discourse and its effects on our society, pushing the creative act beyond the accepted limits, definitions, or purposes of art while engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” I’ll be recognized for this award at Artist Trust’s 2012 Awards Party, November 1^st.

Attached photo of Su Job by Doug Vann

 

I’ve received a few other awards this year, including an Individual Artists Projects grant from 4Culture. I’ll use this grant to create a new body of work, Assassins, which will be featured in Gallery 4Culture.

 

My TEDx Tacoma talk from earlier this year can be seen here.

 

If you happen to be in the Bay Area, Headlands Center for the Arts is having a free open house October 28^th from 12pm-5pm.

 

Stay well,

Paul

 

 

Events:

October 6, 2012

Race, Education, and Criminal Justice Conference

University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

8:00am-5:00pm

Featured speaker/cello performance

 

October 28^, 2012

Open House

Headlands Center for the Arts

12:00pm-5:00pm

Cello performance

 

November 1, 2012

Artist Trust 2012 Awards Party

Seattle Center: Experience Music Project

6:30pm-8:30pm

Recognition of the Conductive Garboil Grant