Bob Rauschenberg Gallery

Next year, Florida SouthWestern State College will undertake a $14.5 million renovation of its Humanities Building. For the ensuing 20 months, the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery will operate out of an annex in FSW's Rush Library building.

Co-founder and original band member of the new wave band DEVO, Bob Lewis, is in Fort Myers to deliver a lecture, reading and Q&A event, Nov. 9, in conjunction with an exhibition now at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band. Lewis joins us in studio ahead of the event along with Rauschenberg Gallery Director Jade Dellinger. Dellinger is co-author of “The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio,” which serves as a definitive account of DEVO’s early history.

Filmmaker, director, producer, photographer, and “Godfather of the music video” Chuck Statler joins the show ahead of a film screen and Q&A at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery to talk about his pre-MTV era music video work, particularly with the seminal new wave band Devo.

The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery is exhibiting a film installation titled “The Exquisite Moving Corpse” through Dec. 10. The project is a collaboration of more than 60 internationally renowned artists, sequentially contributing one minute of film, but only having the final frame of the previous artist’s film to respond to. We’ll take a closer look with Gallery Director Jade Dellinger and initiating and contributing artist Jack Massing.

Internationally renowned artists William Wegman and Jack Massing are collaborating for the first time to create newly commissioned works in a site-specific exhibition now at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers. The exhibition is titled “William WEGMAN & Jack MASSING: TWO CLEVER BY HALF – A Call & Response Project.”

Internationally renowned artists William Wegman and Jack Massing are collaborating for the first time to create newly commissioned works in a site-specific exhibition now at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers. The exhibition is titled “William WEGMAN & Jack MASSING: TWO CLEVER BY HALF – A Call & Response Project.”

Last year’s selection of Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General brought new challenges to the U.S. Postal Service, that at one point, even threatened mail in voting. That prompted renowned artists and musicians Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe to launch the “Postcards for Democracy” project, that’s now become an exhibition at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery. The artists join us to explore the project along with gallery director Jade Dellinger.

The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers has opened a new site-specific installation of drawings and newly-commissioned paintings by artists Olivier Mosset and Mike Bidlo. We’ll explore the exhibition with gallery director Jade Dellinger and how works in the show echo back to paintings created by Rauschenberg himself nearly 70 years ago.

The work of Miami-based artist and musician Beatriz Monteavaro is distinctive for its densely drawn narrative images and environments. It’s also…

A traveling exhibition exploring the biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico and the ecological issues it faces is now on display at the Bob Rauschenberg…