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DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our "HONORING ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG" exhibiti
 on (June 21 - October 19\, 2025) and in celebration of his birth centenary
 \, join Jade Dellinger\, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Flori
 da Southwestern State College\, for this illustrated and insightful lectur
 e on "Bob Rauschenberg in Florida & The Moon Museum: Apollo XII's Secret A
 rt Mission." Exploring a little-known chapter in the history of the U.S.-S
 oviet Space Race and an art project unknown even to the NASA astronauts\, 
 the "Moon Museum" was the first-ever "Space Art" object and secretly sited
  the drawings of Rauschenberg\, Andy Warhol\, Claes Oldenburg\, Forrest My
 ers\, David Novros and John Chamberlain on the lunar surface in 1969. Bob 
 Rauschenberg attended the Apollo XI launch and purchased his first propert
 y on Captiva Island in the late 1960's - living and working in the Sunshin
 e State until his death in 2008. He would have turned 100 on October 22nd\
 , 2025. At the invitation of the U.S. Department of State\, Dellinger has 
 shared his findings about this project at museums\, galleries and universi
 ties in Tbilisi\, Georgia\; Caracas\, Venezuela\; Kyiv\, Ukraine\; Ljublja
 na\, Slovenia and many more.\n\n \n\nAbout the Presenter\n\nJADE DELLINGER
  has served for more than a decade as Director of Exhibitions & Collection
 s at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers\, but is known best 
 locally for his exhibition program and related events at FSW’s Bob Rausc
 henberg Gallery. As a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of South Flo
 rida and with an M.A. in Arts Administration from New York University\, Ja
 de has collaborated on curatorial projects with major museums in the U.S.\
 , Europe\, Mexico and South America for almost twenty years prior to his a
 rrival in Southwest Florida. Beginning his curatorial career by inviting a
 rtist-friend Doug Aitken to present his first site-specific video installa
 tion "I’d Die for You" (1994) at the Pasco Art Center in Holiday\, Flori
 da\, he curated Maurizio Cattelan’s US museum debut "Choose Your Destina
 tion: How to Get a Museum-Paid Vacation" a year later and organized sculpt
 or Keith Edmier’s "EK/KE" project (a collaborative exhibition with legen
 dary motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel) at the USF Contemporary Art Museum
  in 1997. He worked closely with Edmier and new collaborator – 70’s po
 p icon - Farrah Fawcett on a show for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  in the mid-aughts. Dellinger has organized major one- and two-person muse
 um shows for such artists as Yoko Ono\, Ann Hamilton\, Peter Greenaway\, W
 ayne White\, Allan McCollum\, Guerilla Girls\, Keith Haring\, Laurie Ander
 son\, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac\, as well as\, numerous travel
 ing solo Rauschenberg exhibitions at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery\, Black 
 Mountain College Museum + Art Center/Asheville\, University of Kentucky Ar
 t Museum/Lexington and elsewhere. He has written for international publica
 tions including Sculpture\, Flash Art\, Art Papers and Guitar Afficionado\
 ; and co-authored the books\, "Are We Not Men? We are DEVO!" (SAF Publishi
 ng Ltd.\, UK 2003/2008) and "The Beginning Was the End: DEVO in Ohio" (Uni
 versity of Akron Press\, OH 2024)\, which trace the history of the seminal
  1980s New Wave band. Jade has been featured in The New York Times and has
  appeared with the late Apollo XII astronaut Alan Bean on the popular PBS 
 "History Detectives" television program. Since his arrival at FSW\, Jade h
 as presented his research on “Bob Rauschenberg & The Moon Museum: Apollo
  XII’s Secret Art Mission” at the invitation of the U.S. Department of
  State at museums\, galleries and universities in Tbilisi\, Georgia\; Cara
 cas\, Venezuela\; Kyiv\, Ukraine\; Ljubljana\, Slovenia and elsewhere. In 
 2022-23\, Jade guest curated "Don't Blame it on Zen: The Way of John Cage 
 & Friends" for MoCA/Jacksonville.\n\n \n\nAbout MOCA\n\nThe Museum of Cont
 emporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA) is the only museum in Northeast Florida d
 edicated to contemporary art. MOCA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization a
 nd a Cultural Institute of the University of North Florida. The museum ser
 ves the community and its visitors through exhibitions\, collections\, edu
 cational programs\, and publications designed to enhance an understanding 
 and appreciation of contemporary art with particular emphasis on works cre
 ated from 1960 to the present.\n\nLocated in the heart of historic Downtow
 n Jacksonville\, MOCA is one of the city’s most significant cultural ass
 ets. Among the most prominent contemporary art museums in the Southeast\, 
 MOCA’s exhibitions and programs set the pace for arts and art-integrated
  programming on a regional and national stage. Renowned in this community\
 , MOCA casts the spotlight on Jacksonville as a burgeoning\, vital arts de
 stination.\n\nThe museum is also a cornerstone of Jacksonville’s multibi
 llion-dollar downtown revitalization plan with exhibitions and programs th
 at bring new visitors to the civic core during the day\, at night\, and on
  weekends.
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SUMMARY:Ideas of Our Time: Bob Rauschenberg in Florida and The Moon Museum
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 rg-in-florida-the-moon-museum
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