THE ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG MUSEUM

CAPTIVA FLORIDA

RAUSCHENBERG MUSEUM(click to link)

from google image for education only

A trip I have always wanted to make is to the Sanibel/Captiva Islands of Florida, just off the West Coast of Florida.  Though Robert Rauschenberg spent a good bit of his life in NYC, he later moved to Florida where he worked and built a magnificent studio.  Another little known area of Rauschenberg's life is his work with Autism.  He offered workshops for public school art teachers to develop lesson plans working with autistic children and art.  When I was teaching in special education I applied once, but did not get in due to the large number of teachers who wanted the opportunity as well. I also admired his foundation work with the Robert Rauschenberg World foundation.
I highly advise if you live nearby or are a Rauschenberg fan like I am, you make the journey to go see his museum and studio. 

THE MAGICAL HISTORY OF BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER OF ART

Black Mountain Drew the Finest Creative Minds of Its Time

Black Mountain Art Center

Robert Rauschenberg  at Black Mountain                       from google image for educational purposes only

"It was one of the most engaging, risky, and romantic seed-enterprises in the history of higher 

education." - Alexander Eliot, former student 

". . . it really became kind of recognized [at BMC] that art could be anything, and could be made out of anything, and that it didn't necessarily cross boundaries -- they thought - between theater, the visual arts, dance, music, etc., that you could mix all this up and make a multi-media - or . . . environmental art." - Kenneth Noland, former student 

"BMC was a crazy and magical place, and the electricity of all the people seemed to make for a wonderfully charged atmosphere, so that one woke up in the mornings excited and a little anxious, as though a thunderstorm were sweeping in." - Lyle Bonge, former student 
- See more at: http://www.theartstory.org/school-black-mountain-college.htm#sthash.0xrwMtRI.dpuf

THE ARTISTS JOB IS TO BE A WITNESS TO HIS TIME
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG       MIXED MEDIA                                                        FROM GOOGLE IMAGE