S1 EP37: FSW's Bob Rauschenberg Gallery Director Jade Dellinger discusses DEVO, Purvis YOUNG: Honey in the Sky, Rauschenberg and more


Jade DELLINGER has served ten years now as Director of Exhibitions & Collections at Florida SouthWestern State College, but is known best locally for his exhibition program and related events at FSW’s Bob Rauschenberg Gallery. Beginning his career with the Contemporary Art Museum at U.S.F./Tampa, he curated Keith Edmier’s EK/KE project (a collaborative exhibition with legendary motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel) in 1997, and worked closely with the sculptor and new collaborator – 70’s pop icon - Farrah Fawcett on a show for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the mid-aughts. Dellinger has organized major solo and two-person museum shows for such artists as Yoko Ono, Ann Hamilton, James Franco, Wayne White, Allan McCollum, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring and Jack Kerouac. He has written for international publications including Sculpture, Flash Art, Art Papers and Guitar Afficionado; and co-authored the book Are We Not Men? We are DEVO! (SAF Publishing Ltd., UK 2003/2008), which traces 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 has 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; Caracas, Venezuela; Kyiv, Ukraine; Ljubljana, Slovenia and elsewhere... 
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