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Visual Arts | Live Arts | Cinema

Real Art Ways is now accepting applications for Step Up 2012, an exhibition opportunity for emerging artists.
Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2012.
Learn more in Visual Arts or download the Adobe PDF application form directly.

We welcome work samples and proposals for our gallery spaces, live arts programming, or video and film for screening in our cinema and video spaces. Artists working in new media and working with interactive and web-based platforms are also encouraged to submit proposals. But in order to help you, please note the following:

Real Art Ways History

Before you submit materials, you may want to look around our website and see what we do. Check out our public art projects, our past exhibitions, and the rest of our program archives. This won’t tell you what we are looking for in future programming, since Real Art Ways is in constant evolution, but it will give you some idea of what our general programming sensibilities are; innovative, contemporary and non-commercial are good guideposts.

Patience

We closely review unsolicited proposals, but since we are a busy, non-profit alternative space and we take pride in looking carefully at each of them, it can sometimes take us a while to get back to you.

Deadlines

Unless otherwise noted, we accept and review submissions on an ongoing basis.

Cinema

For information on how to plan a post-film discussion, or to submit film suggestions, click here.

Live Arts: Music, Performance, and Literary Submissions

BEFORE SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL: Review our mission and goals. Browse current Live Arts programming, and look through our Live Arts archives. If you think we're a good fit for each other after learning more about who we are and what we do, please send us a proposal.

PROPOSALS

Please submit the following:

  • Cover note - please address why we'd be a good fit for each other

  • Work samples

  • Reviews

  • Photos (if relevant)

Feel free to include any other information (including a link to your official website) that you think we'd find helpful. Send all proposals to John Odonnell. We prefer email, but you may also submit via snail mail:

Live Arts Submissions
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street
Hartford, CT 06106

Visual Arts Submission Guidelines for Artists and Curators

Open Call for Emerging Artists in NY, NJ, and New England:

Our annual open call, Step Up, accepts submissions from March - May each year.

Unsolicited Submissions in general

We accept unsolicited submissions from artists and curators for our visual arts programming. While the majority of our exhibitions are not the result of unsolicited submissions, there are shows every year that come to us this way.

Visual Arts, New Media Submissions

Resumes, statements, bios and press clippings are all helpful but not nearly as important as good quality, labeled images of your work.

  • We accept images in .jpg format.

Audio, Video Guidelines

  • If you're using snail mail to send music and/or video, these can be burned onto a CD and/or DVD.

Send all submissions to:

Visual Arts Submissions
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street
Hartford, CT 06106

or email them to Visual Arts.

If you send a self addressed stamped envelope, we will return your materials.

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