After Progress
Adam Viens at Real Art Ways

Real Art Ways presents After Progress, a solo exhibition by Adam Viens  Viens is a mixed-media artist whose work delves into concepts of time, perception, memory, and philosophy. As a physical representation of intellectual and emotional processes, Viens’ work presents a combination of frantic, improvisational technique and slow, interpretive contemplation.  The result is admittedly abstract however, frequently edging in and out of vague spatial representation.  After Progress is predicated on personal interpretation, explains Viens, “The work is not didactic, it is…

Real Art Ways presents thick, hazy, cleer, blew, a solo exhibition by Shona Macdonald.  You’re invited to join us for an artist talk with Shona Macdonald and Peter Albano on Friday, October 24, at 6pm. Free admission – no registration necessary to attend. — thick, hazy, cleer, blew explores the effects of weather as ephemeral, mundane records of our daily lives. In addition to weather and forecasts, these three bodies of work explore the atmosphere and atmospheric perspective. ‘The Vapors so…

Real Art Ways presents It’s Going to Rain, a solo exhibition by Real Art Award winner Tielin Ding Before a storm comes,  swirling vortices of air,  bring leaves floating and in motion.  Brooms, fans, umbrellas；  gathering, murmuring；  It’s a party with flickering lights.  Yes, it‘s going to rain.    It’s Going to Rain is a multimedia exhibition that reflects on the relationships between objects, environments, and their shared states of uncertainty. John Cage asked, “When a truck passes by a music…

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The series takes place in person on the second Wednesday of the month from September 2025 through May 2026. Each night begins with an open mic featuring readers with one poem (one page) and continues with a poetry reading featuring regionally or nationally known poets. Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host Michelle Phương Hồ and Scott Frey on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 7pm. There will be an open mic this month for the first ten poets who sign…

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Experience music imagined and created in real-time. This series runs from September 2025 to May 2026. Check out the full schedule here! November 23 Performance:   Rob Brown-alto saxophone, flute   Anna Webber-tenor saxophone, flute   Matthew Rousseau-drums   Joe Morris-bass, compositions

In recognition of World AIDS Day, you’re invited to a community screening of Derek Jarman’s final feature film, BLUE. A single field of radiant blue fills the screen while Jarman, facing AIDS in the final month of his life, speaks of illness, intimacy, and eternity. With only voice and color, BLUE becomes a meditation on presence and absence, on the body in decline, and the spirit in defiant bloom. This screening will take place at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of…

  Saturday, December 6, at 7 pm – Real Art Ways welcomes trombonist, composer and arranger Papo Vázquez for our annual concert and holiday parranda. Bring an instrument and get in free! Otherwise, general admission is $10. Please note, the venue for this event will be Black Eyed Sally’s at 350 Asylum Street in Hartford. Parranda de aguinaldo (Christmas folk music), is an Afro-Indigenous musical form played during the holidays in various Caribbean and Latin American countries including Puerto Rico,…