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Hartford Courant – February 3, 2026

Hartford Film Showcase comes back bigger and stronger for second year

WTNH News Channel 8 – January 27, 2026

Nyberg: Hartford’s Real Art Ways getting ready for large expansion

Connecticut Public – December 5, 2025

A Hartford arts organization is bringing a Caribbean Christmas tradition stateside

Hartford Business Journal – November 21, 2025

Real Art Ways hosts ceremonial groundbreaking on long-planned $24M Hartford expansion. 

Hartford Courant – November 21, 2025

A $24M expansion of a major CT arts center is to start soon. A place “great ideas’ will come from. Download: A $24M expansion of a major CT arts center is to start soon. A place “great ideas’ will come from. __ Reader View

Connecticut Drag – October 7, 2025

Real Art Ways in Hartford blended drag, nature, and imagination in a night of living art.

WFSB Channel 3 – October 6, 2025

Great Day Connecticut: Pizza, A Love Story.

Hartford Courant – September 21, 2025

Hothead Paisan comics hot again with new collection of CT artist’s provocative 1990s creation.

Hartford Courant – September 10, 2025

CT foundation awards $6M in grants in a show of support for theaters, museums and arts nonprofitsDownload: Hartford Courant_CT foundation awards $6M in grants_9-10-2025

Hartford Courant – August 30, 2025

Share in the communal, celebratory art form of drag this week in CT arts

Hartford Courant – August 1, 2025

56 CT projects are vying for part of $950M. Major housing projects and an arts venue made the list. Download: Courant CRDA August 2025

ArtForum – July 9, 2025

Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2025 Grantees. 

Fox61 – May 22, 2025

Hartford Foundation awards more than $780,000 to summer programs in and around the city. 

New Britain Herald – May 5, 2025

Professor from CCSU appears in the documentary ‘Secret Mall Apartment.’ 

Hartford Courant – March 22, 2025

Priya N Green and Christa Whitten exhibit marks crossroads in different ways at RAW.

New Haven Independent – March 10, 2025

First Generation Black – What a Concept

Hartford Courant – February 9, 2025

Out-of-the-ordinary CT Valentine events from a slasher film to Surrealist games. 

CT Insider – February 4, 2025

CT movie director wins big at Sundance Film Festival for ‘Ricky.’ 

Hartford Courant Op Ed – February 3, 2025

Hartford and the new age built on arts and innovation

Hartford Business Journal – January 27, 2025

With new financing plan in place, Hartford’s Real Art Ways targets 2025 launch of $20M expansion

Hartford Courant – January 24, 2025

Hartford Film Showcase at Real Art Ways celebrates local filmmaking achievements. 

Hartford Courant – October 4, 2024

Comic monologist Josh Kornbluth mixes brain science with social justice at Real Art Ways

CT Insider – September 16, 2024

Real Art Ways to screen film about famed Connecticut boxer Willie Pep, host Q&A with actors. 

Connecticut Public Radio – August 12, 2024

At a CT playground, a new art exhibit calls attention to gun violence, one name at a time. 

New Haven Independent – August 1, 2024

Finally, Crying for Megan

WFSB / Channel 3 (CBS) – July 26, 2024

MIDAS playing at Real Art Ways. 

Hartford Courant – June 23, 2024

How Hartford became the star of the upcoming feature film ‘Midas,’ opening this week in CT

Great Day Connecticut – February 2024

WFSB Interview on No Bodies

CT Insider – October 2023

New cinema screens, renovated galleries coming to Hartford’s Real Art Ways through CT grant.

Hartford Business Journal – September 29, 2023

Hartford’s Real Art Ways anticipates 2024 launch of $23m overhaul after securing state grant. 

Hartford Courant – September 29, 2023

State grant propels CT arts organization toward massive expansion. ‘It’s a transformative project.’ 

Hartford Business Journal – February 20, 2023

Real Art Ways’ Executive Director, Will K. Wilkins, named one of 2023’s Power 50 

Hartford Courant – June 30, 2022

Real Art Ways receives inaugural grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.

Hartford Courant – June 16, 2022

“‘And all things hushed’ is a leisurely, contemplative piece that lets you see Real Art Ways from whole new perspectives.” 

Hartford Business Journal – January 31, 2022

From Modest Beginnings, Real Art Ways’ $14.7M Expansion Aims to Create Major Center of Contemporary Art

Hartford Courant – November 17, 2021

Generating Creativity       

The New York Times – December 4, 2009
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The New York TImes – January 29, 1984

An Arts Neighborhood in Hartford

The New York TImes – August 1, 1982