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March 2, 2006 TIM ROLLINS founde=
d Kids
of Survival, an art program devoted to at-risk youth, in the =
In late
2005, Rollins came to =
The
works in "We See the Promised Land: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. with the
Youth of Atlanta" include symbolic self-portraits on pages of Langst=
on
Hughes' "What Happens to a Dream Deferred?" and strikingly colo=
red
shapes painted on pages of King's speeches and writings. "Letter fro=
m a
Birmingham City Jail," for example, contains pages overpainted
with vertical stripes that suggest prison bars. A piece from 2006, "I
Have a Dream," is a page from King's speech almost completely obscur=
ed,
suggesting that his dream has become dimmed in our own time. =
But the
bright optimism of the larger works, which look a little like the spiritu=
ally
inclined geometry of Kasimir Malevich, oversh=
adows
this small testament of skepticism. Rollins' students don't make "yo=
uth
art." They make serious contemporary art, and all the work at =
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THE 411: Through April 22. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturdays. =
Langston
Hughes' "Dream Deferred" and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Promised Land" and other literatur=
e get
interpreted by Kids of Survival with the Youth of Atlanta. =
Photo = Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Promised Land&= quot; gets interpreted by Kids of Survival with the Youth of Atlanta.
Copyright 2006 The=
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