Insights: Fred Rouse III

Meet community activist Fred Rouse III, the co-founder of The Fred Rouse Foundation, President of the Tarrant County Coalition for Peace and Justice, who serves on the board of Transform 1012.

Fred Rouse III will discuss his efforts towards honoring the life and memory of his grandfather, Mr. Fred Rouse (1898-1921). Fred Rouse's 1921 lynching is the only recorded lynching in Forth Worth, a known hub for the Ku Klux Klan. The Center, in an act of reparative justice, returns resources to the communities that were targeted for violence and economic marginalization in North Texas.

Sedrick Huckaby and Fred Rouse III met through their research on Mr. Fred Rouse. With no known images of Mr. Rouse, Huckaby created Contemplating Fred Rouse, a video projection capturing the artist's repetitive charcoal drawings of male figures being drawn, erased, and redrawn, progressing from older men to the artist's own teenage son. Through this artwork, Huckaby attempts to imagine not only what Mr. Fred Rouse might have looked like, but who he could have been.

This event is free and open to all. 

Date: Monday, January 12, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum, 605 Azie Morton Road, Austin, TX 78704