Tuskegee Experiment

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 600 black men—399 in the late stages of syphilis and 201 in a control group. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from Macon, one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” (1) their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis, which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”

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Prison System

I’m a supporter of:

The Innocence Project

A national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/

Prison Policy Initiative

The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and the national welfare
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/

Prisoners of the Census:

Maps tracking the proliferation of prisons.
http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/prisonproliferation.html

Blue Mountain Center

During a “Prison Issues” residency at Blue Mountain Center I performed with a wonderful poet, Jorge Antonio Renaud.

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Paul Rucker

As an interdisciplinary artist, I combine mediums. I find inventive ways to integrate live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art. The music I create on cello involves extended technique, prepared cello and electronics. My compositional style ranges from improvised to strictly notated. My visual artwork incorporates infrared beams, lasers, touch pads, glass instruments, sound, video, photography, animation, and large-format printing.

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January 21 – May 20

10th Northwest Biennial

Four Score
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma, WA

February 3–24

Living Arts Gallery/Tulsa Opera

PROLIFERATION
Living Arts Gallery
Tulsa, Oklahoma

February 25

Artist Trust Auction

Solo Cello Performance
Artist Trust
Seattle, WA

February 29

Stafford Creek Corrections Center

Solo Cello Performance
Stafford Creek Corrections Center
Aberdeen, WA

March 2

Artist in Residence

Dimmitt Middle School
Seattle, WA

March 16

Magma Festival

Hollow Earth Radio - Magma Festival
Performing with Tari Nelson-Zager, Byron Au Yong
Chapel Performance Space
Good Sheppard Center
Seattle, WA

March 8–11

Armory Art Fair

Armory Art Fair
New York, NY

April 17

TEDx Talk Tacoma

Solo Cello
TEDx Talk Tacoma
Museum of Glass, Tacoma
Tacoma, WA

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