Paul's profile
Paul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines media, integrating visual art with sound, original compositions, and live performance. His work is the product of a rich interactive process through which he investigates human rights issues, historical events, community impacts, and basic human emotions surrounding his subject matter. Much of his current work focuses on the prison industrial complex and the many issues that accompany incarceration.
Rucker has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies for his work in visual art and music. In 2013, he was named the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and is currently a resident at Creative Alliance. In the past two years he has received awards for visual art from the Creative Capital Foundation, a 10-week residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in California, and a performing arts grant from the MAP Fund to combine animation and live performance.
As a musician and musical director, Rucker performs as a solo cellist, leads his LARGE ENSEMBLE of 22 musicians, and works with others on collaborative compositions. He and his ensemble, respectively, were awarded Best Emerging Artist and Outside Jazz Ensemble of the Year in 2007 by Earshot Jazz in Seattle, and he was also named Jazz Artist of the Year in 2007 by the Seattle Music Awards. Rucker plays regularly as a solo cellist; past performance venues include the Jacksonville Jazz Festival and The Stone in New York City. He was also invited by legendary filmmaker David Lynch to perform for the opening of Lynch’s film, Inland Empire.
As a public artist, Rucker has created work for the Museum of Flight and 4Culture in Seattle, and for the City of Tacoma, WA. Past residencies include the Blue Mountain Center, Ucross Foundation, OMI International Arts Center, the Banff Centre, Pilchuck Glass School, and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Paul is a self-taught visual artist and cellist.
Rucker has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies for his work in visual art and music. In 2013, he was named the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and is currently a resident at Creative Alliance. In the past two years he has received awards for visual art from the Creative Capital Foundation, a 10-week residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in California, and a performing arts grant from the MAP Fund to combine animation and live performance.
As a musician and musical director, Rucker performs as a solo cellist, leads his LARGE ENSEMBLE of 22 musicians, and works with others on collaborative compositions. He and his ensemble, respectively, were awarded Best Emerging Artist and Outside Jazz Ensemble of the Year in 2007 by Earshot Jazz in Seattle, and he was also named Jazz Artist of the Year in 2007 by the Seattle Music Awards. Rucker plays regularly as a solo cellist; past performance venues include the Jacksonville Jazz Festival and The Stone in New York City. He was also invited by legendary filmmaker David Lynch to perform for the opening of Lynch’s film, Inland Empire.
As a public artist, Rucker has created work for the Museum of Flight and 4Culture in Seattle, and for the City of Tacoma, WA. Past residencies include the Blue Mountain Center, Ucross Foundation, OMI International Arts Center, the Banff Centre, Pilchuck Glass School, and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Paul is a self-taught visual artist and cellist.
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