World Premieres of Electroacoustic and Acoustic Music Hartford composers and Hartt School faculty Lief Ellis and David Macbride will present music involving winds, voices, percussion, and piano interior. Audio spatialization will be featured and audience members will be an integral part of the music making. Come experience music in a new and exciting way! […]
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, January 27 | 4 PM Peter Edlund explores the contradictions in utopian American landscape imagery. Taking aesthetic and visual cues from the work of artists ranging from the Hudson River School to Ansel Adams, Edlund’s paintings employ allegorical imagery to investigate contemporary issues. His landscapes reference the mythic images of Manifest […]
Join us for an informative and lively panel discussion, delving into a variety of subjects suggested by the exhibition, Stewart Crone: Pinned to the Wall. Panelists Peter Waite: Curator / Moderator Marty Baron: Art collector Stewart Crone: Artist Peter Good: Designer / Artist Chris Passehl: Designer Kelly Walters: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, UConn Discussion […]
Title: Wasteland Grade Range: 9th-12th grade Duration: 99 minutes Subject Areas: Art/Art History; Social Studies; International Studies; Sociology; Gender Studies; Environmental Science; Geopolitics ABOUT THE MOVIE Wasteland follows artist Vik Muniz as he journeys to his native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump. There, he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”- or, pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective […]
All are welcome to this family-friendly event. We will end the summer of Park Art classes with a party and exhibition! Activities begin at 1 PM with drumming lessons with Alvin Carter Jr. and Abu Carter Sr. and dancing lessons and performance by Tang Sauce and Kailah King. Also Self Suffice – RaPoetry. We will […]
Film + Panel Discussion Adapted from Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. The film focuses on the untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) – brilliant […]
Our Last Tango tells the life and love story of Argentina’s most famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83), who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart. Relaying their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos […]
FRANCOFONIA, directed by master Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK), is an urgent meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and 20th century European history, set in occupied Paris circa 1940. Applying his uniquely personal vision, Sokurov paints a fascinating portrait of two real-life characters: the Louvre’s wartime director, Jacques Jaujard, and Count Franziskus […]
Join us for an artist talk and discussion with Mohamad Hafez, followed by a Q & A session with audience members. This is a free event! Mohamad Hafez was born in Damascus, raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and educated in the Midwestern United States. A New Haven-based architect, Hafez uses plaster, rigid foam, […]
Vestiges from a Dream Pool Heidi Lau creates sculptures and paper works exploring Chinese folk archetypes, unexplainable superstitions, and inherited memories. For her exhibition at Real Art Ways, Lau presents a selected body of highly textured and glazed ceramic sculptures, some monumental and some miniature. All are embedded with elements from nature and folklore, carrying […]
Desperate Cargo Artist and architect Mohamad Hafez creates sculptures representing Middle Eastern streetscapes and buildings besieged by civil war, deliberately contrasted with verses from the Holy Quran. His work reflects the political turmoil in the Middle East through the compilation of found objects, paint, and scrap metal in miniaturized installations that are architectural in their […]
Beginning Monday, February 22, artist Alina Gallo will paint a life-sized egg tempera mural directly onto the walls of the Real Room, re-creating Keleti Station, a train station in Budapest, Hungary where thousands of refugees (many from Syria and Afghanistan) were stranded on their way to Germany, Sweden, and other European destinations during the summer […]
Keleti Station Artist Alina Gallo spent over a week painting a life-sized egg tempera mural directly onto the walls of the entire Real Room. The work re-creates Keleti Station, a train station in Budapest, Hungary where thousands of refugees (many from Syria and Afghanistan) were stranded on their way to Germany, Sweden, and other European […]
Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored— cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself […]
Park Art Real Art Ways free summer art program! 8 weeks long, 5 days a week, starting Monday June 23 through Friday August 15 from 1:00 – 4:30 pm. This program is designed for kids aged 3 to 13 years old. A parent or guardian is required for children under the age of 5. What […]
