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In her Plate to Platelet series of paintings, Mia Brownell combines diagrammatic space with a stark black/white/gray palette that graphically delineates the ambiguous and contradictory spaces she is constructing. Occupying positions within these spaces are collections of fruit painted in a meticulous, illusionistic style. Sometimes the still life elements rest upon the fragments of […]
A one-of-a-kind musical experience will materialize as thirteen exceptional musicians gather in groupings from solo to large ensemble, creating fully improvised music on the spot. The musicians range from local to internationally known, young to not-so-young, all sharing a love and mastery of their craft as well as an affinity for collaboration. Jerome Deupree […]
Shields explores ideas about vulnerability, protection, blindness or obscured vision, and non-verbal/pictorial signification. The imagery stems from ancient Middle Eastern and African shields and armor (for humans as well as for animals in battle), but the work reflects a broad imagining of what shields might be, what they accomplish, and when and why they […]
Real Art Ways presents three concerts that explore distinct types of drums. Each concert includes a discussion with the performing artists. Kaoru Watanabe’s Néo featuring Fumi Tanakadate “Néo is so ethereal that words to describe it skip like a breeze on water. It encompasses time and space from a culture that remains elusive and exotic, […]
Combining unconventional materials in unexpected manners, Abductions and Reconstructions offers fresh takes on abstraction, collage, and sculpture. Curated by David Borawksi, three artists present a diverse range of aesthetic considerations. Meg Hitchcock uses sacred texts to craft intricate designs and imagery. The labor intensive practice of cutting minute details mimics the rituals and meditations contained […]
Real Art Ways presents five Academy Award Nominated films, one every day of the week starting Friday, February 9. Click on a title for ticket links and trailer. Faces Places Nominated: Documentary Feature Thursday & Monday | 2:30 PM Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: a passion for and the exploration of images, and […]
Enjoy a specialty cocktail while sifting through years of exhibition ephemera, outdated supplies and equipment, and miscellaneous objects and take some home with you! Items for sale include (scroll down for photos – much more is available): – Large scale stretcher bars, good for projection screens or paintings (96 in. x 75 in.) – […]
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 […]
