RED, Feb. 1 - Mar. 11, 2012
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Library Series:

Spring 2012

"The Art of Mark Rothko" series presents discussions at libraries around the city that highlight the life and work of Mark Rothko, featuring scenes from RED and discussions with local artists and art critics.

• East Atlanta Library - 400 Flat Shoals Ave. SE, Atlanta, GA 30316
  Thursday Feb. 9 at 1:00 pm
  Director David DeVries will discuss RED and overview of Rothko's life and Tom Key will perform a reading from the play.
  404-730-5438

• Southwest Atlanta Library - 3665 Cascade Rd. SW, Atlanta, GA 30331
  Thursday Feb. 9 at 4:00 pm
  A general discussion on art history during the period of Mark Rothko's art ( 1940 - 1970) led by artist and Southwest Atlanta resident, Tom Swanston.
  404-699-6363

• Central Library - One Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GA 30303
  Monday Feb. 13 at 1:00 pm
  Catherine Fox, art historian and art critic will discuss Rothko's art & theories and Tom Key will perform a reading from the play.
  404.730.1700

About the Participants:

Catherine Fox is executive director and editor of ArtsCriticATL and its chief art critic. She was art and architecture critic at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 27 years, during which time she was Cox Writer of the Year and won awards from Green Eyeshade and American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. She has written for ARTnews and other publications and is an author of the first volume of "Atlanta Art Now," a 2011 publication devoted to critical discussion of Atlanta's visual artists.

Tom Key has served as Executive Artistic Director of Theatrical Outfit since 1995. Tom Key has performed at the Lambs Theater off-Broadway, the John F. Kennedy Center of Washington D.C., the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Theater Center and the Alliance. With the late singer-songwriter, Harry Chapin, he conceived and co-authored the off-Broadway musical hit, Cotton Patch Gospel. Most recently he has adapted John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces at T.O. and starred in T.O.’s The Young Man From Atlanta. Tom Key is dedicated to the Theatrical Art Form as a catalyst to creating community.

David De Vries began his career at the old Kress Building in shows like The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Moon for the Misbegotten and I’m Not Rappaport.  He went on to appear as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and has toured the country in the National Tour of Wicked.  Recent credits: Carapace (Alliance), Circle Mirror Transformation (TITS), Necessary Roughness (USA Network) and Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime). David is an award-winning audio book narrator and is the proud father of Willem.

Tom Swanston has exhibited his art work in 14 solo and 46 group gallery exhibitions - with the Lowe Gallery in Atlanta GA. and Los Angeles, CA., M-13 in New York, NY., EWFA, Boston, MA., and 707 Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. He has been included in 8 museum exhibitions and published in over 61 trade and lifestyles magazines. Swanston has been awarded two Ford Foundation grants, a Rubenstein Foundation grant and has been a Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences. Swanston’s work is included in private and corporate collections in China, Dubai, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, USVI, the Caribbean, and the United States.