The family and friends of Robert Rauschenberg invite you to a celebration of his life from 5 - 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, 2008 in the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall and bob Rauschenberg gallery on the Edison College Campus in Fort Myers Florida.

A tribute will begin at 5:30 in the Mann Hall. Photographs of Bob's life and his "Ruminations" print series will be on view from 5-8 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibition closes on July 3

Gallery Lecture Series

January 30, 2008 1 P.M.
Donald Saff, a longtime friend of Rauschenberg’s, is an artist, printmaker and educator who has been a major force in the American prints and multiple movement since the 1960s. Saff founded Graphicstudio / The Institute for Research in Art in 1968 on the campus of USF, in Tampa. 

September 7, 2007, 7 P.M.
Chicago Artist Jane Calvin
In conjunction with the exhibition, “Discontinuum”

November 2, 2007, 7 P.M.
Florida artist Mark Messersmith 
In conjunction with the exhibition, “A Southern Landscape” 

March 11, 2008, 1 P.M.
Martin Z. Margulies
In conjunction with the exhibition, “New Century New Painting: Recent Acquisitions from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection”