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Blake translates a present day world which depicts personal nostalgia, recontextualizing appropriated and personal images. A first generation Black person in an immediate family of white Americans, she grew up surrounded by iconography and other paraphernalia specific to American culture and first-world consumption. Conflicting agency as a consequence of existing between contradictory circumstances, she chooses to acknowledge this connection which drives her to depict an experience in contemporary society with subject matter related to cultural movements specific to the turn of the twenty-first century and present day.<\/p>\r\n
Her practice involves the systematic curation of information which is accessed through the Internet and interpersonal communication. From music to video games, fandom, and social issues, she creates visual work which investigates her relationship to the imagery. Blake is most interested in the collapsing of time, how information intersects conceptually, and the irony of her position in the work she is investigating.<\/p>\r\n \r\n
Bethani Blake (b. 1999) is an artist, curator, and educator based in Hartford, CT. She received her B.F.A in Painting and Performing Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2021 and has exhibited work in Connecticut. Georgia, and Ohio. Blake is currently the Amistad Associate Curator for the African Diaspora at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art where she organizes exhibitions and heads an artist residency.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n DoYeon Kim is a traditionally trained Korean artist who plays the gayageum, a traditional Korean string instrument, and has developed a uniquely broad approach to music, incorporating Korean music, jazz, and improvisation, among other influences. Notably, she introduced the gayageum into the improvisational music scene worldwide. Her recent collaborative projects have broadened to include dancers, actors, and visual artists. Robert Carl\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0music is performed regularly throughout the US and abroad. It concentrates on solo, chamber, orchestral, vocal, choral, and electroacoustic media. Its aim is to create a sense of space that provides the listener with a sense of freedom and openness. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (the 1998 Charles Ives Fellowship as well as a 2106 Arts & Letters Award).<\/p>\r\n Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, UCross, Djerassi, Millay, Bogliasco, Camargo, Copland House, Tokyo Wonder Site, and Bellagio. He lived in Japan for three months as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in 2007.<\/p>\r\n New World Records<\/em> has released three CDs of his works (music for strings; electroacoustic pieces inspired by Japan; and large ensemble\/orchestral).\u00a0Neuma<\/em> has just released a two-disc retrospective featuring music in precise tuning with technological extensions. In 2021, an all-orchestral CD was released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; and\u00a0Harmony<\/em>, an opera based on the meeting of Charles Ives and Mark Twain, with libretto by Russell Banks, premiered in August 2021.<\/p>\r\n Robert writes regularly on new music in a variety of forums and magazines and is the author of\u00a0Terry Riley\u2019s In C<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press). In 2016, Bloomsbury Press released Jonathan Kramer\u2019s posthumous text\u00a0Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening<\/em>, which Mr. Carl edited. In fall 2020, Bloomsbury also published a book of his essays titled\u00a0Music Composition in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century: A Practical Guide to the New Common Practice.<\/em><\/p>\r\n He was chair of Composition at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, from 1992-2022. In Fall 2022, he was Slee Professor of Music at the University at Buffalo.<\/p>\r\nLearn more about Robert here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.robertcarlcomposer.com<\/a>","image":"","startDate" : "2025-02-23","endDate" : "2025-02-23","dateCreated":"2025-02-17 14:51:37","offers":[{"@type":"Offer","description":"Tickets","validFrom":"Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:30:00 -0500","url":"https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/fj-NgxoYpG8TTdrnt9mf8A","priceCurrency":"USD","availability":"InStock","potentialAction" : {"@type": "BuyAction","description":"Purchase Tickets","startTime":"Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:30:00 -0500","target" : "https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/fj-NgxoYpG8TTdrnt9mf8A"}}],"location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Real Art Ways","telephone":"(860) 232-1006","sameAs":"https://www.realartways.org","image":"https://www.realartways.org/wp-content/themes/toolset-bootstrap/img/logo-realartways.png","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"56 Arbor St #1","addressLocality":"Hartford","addressRegion":"CT","postalCode":"06106","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"@context":"https://www.schema.org/","@type":"Event","name":"Creative Cocktail Hour","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/february-2025-cch/","description":"<\/a>\r\n\r\n ","image":"https://www.realartways.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMAGEWEBSITE.jpg","startDate" : "2025-01-16","endDate" : "2025-03-17","dateCreated":"2025-01-31 16:59:28","location":{"@type":"ArtGallery","name":"Real Art Ways","telephone":"(860) 232-1006","sameAs":"https://www.realartways.org","image":"https://www.realartways.org/wp-content/themes/toolset-bootstrap/img/logo-realartways.png","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"56 Arbor St #1","addressLocality":"Hartford","addressRegion":"CT","postalCode":"06106","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"@context":"https://www.schema.org/","@type":"VisualArtsEvent","name":"Thin Ice
Joseph Smolinski","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/thin-ice-joseph-smolinski/","description":"UPDATE: Our Main Gallery will be used for the Hartford Film Showcase all day on Saturday, 2\/1. If you plan to visit Joseph Smolinski's \"Thin Ice\" exhibition, we recommend coming after 2\/1. Thank you!<\/h5>\r\n--\r\n
Real Art Ways presents Thin Ice<\/em>; a solo exhibition by Joseph Smolinski.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nThin Ice, 2020\r\n\r\nDigital animation, 6 min. 31 sec.\r\n\r\nI was born in the 1970\u2019s shortly after the Oil Embargo that brought our country to a halt. The period of 1975-1980 was a missed opportunity to learn from our unsustainable addiction to fossil fuels and embrace innovative new green technologies. In hindsight, this inaction has set us on a course of grave danger all while marketing campaigns from corporate entities steered popular culture away from the environmental movement of the time. I distinctly remember watching 80\u2019s automotive commercials from Ford, Dodge and Chevrolet of rugged trucks ripping through the landscape and performing off-road feets in slow motion. Phrases like \u201cBuilt Ford Tough\u201d and \u201cLike a Rock'' were designed to perpetuate toxic masculinity with little regard to sustainability. These tropes come from a long line of colonial views of the environment in which a landscape must be tamed and conquered. Thin Ice is an animation project that draws from formulaic American truck commercials and my memories of growing up in Minnesota. Each Spring the nightly news would air reports of the latest automobile stranded and sinking through the thinning ice of area lakes. Fueled by automotive fetishism and masculine folly this moving image is a striking metaphor of the state of the environment.\r\n\r\n-Joseph Smolinksi\r\n\r\nThin Ice<\/em> was curated by David Borawski\r\n
About the Artist<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nJoseph Smolinski is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in New Haven, CT. His practice questions the shifting roles of technology within communication networks, energy, and oil companies, and the industrial, agricultural infrastructure, which indelibly shape the so-called natural environment. Smolinski received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin (1999) and his MFA from the University of Connecticut, Storrs (2001). Group exhibition venues\u00a0<\/span>include Diverse Works, Houston, TX; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Solo exhibitions include Mixed Greens Gallery, NY; Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and ArtSpace, New Haven, CT. His\u00a0<\/span>work has been discussed in Art in America, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Art Papers. He is a recipient of the Connecticut Commission of the Arts 2012 Artist Fellowship, the 2014 Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University, and a 2012 Artist Resource Trust Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. He has been an artist in residence at Wassaic Projects, 2021 and the Happy and Bob Doran\u00a0<\/span>Connecticut AIR Program at Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace, New Haven.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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Priya N. Green","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/distant-bystander-priya-n-green/","description":"Real Art Ways presents Distant Bystander<\/em>; a solo exhibition by Priya N. Green\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nPriya N. Green\u2019s work delves into the fragile interplay between sight, perception, and reality. Anchored in the relentless repetition of images from the 24-hour news cycle, Green\u2019s paintings grapple with the tension between agitation and desensitization. This constant barrage of mediated visuals shapes her response: a search for emotional connection amidst the noise.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRooted in large-scale oil paintings, Green\u2019s recent series draws from found images of protests and crowds in India. As the daughter of Indian immigrants, Priya\u2019s art has long been a way of tracing her ties to family and heritage. Yet, technology complicates these connections. Screens, paradoxically, bring us closer while magnifying a sense of distance. They serve as both portals and barriers, framing the world while distancing us from its immediacy.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDuring the pandemic, this dissonance became sharper, as life was filtered through glowing devices. Priya N. Green\u2019s paintings are an exploration of this modern condition\u2014our yearning for presence in an increasingly mediated reality.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDistant Bystander<\/em> was curated by Peter Albano.\r\n\r\n
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About the Artist<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nPriya N. Green (b. 1986 New Jersey) is an artist whose layered oil paintings explore ideas of reality and perception through the pervasive images found in the news. Green\u2019s work forms a response to the phenomenological impact of abs orbing information and seeking truth through the screen. She uses the materiality of paint to address the veracity of the photographic images that have penetrated the twenty-first century psyche. As the granddaughter of a Bollywood screenwriter, Green believes her fascination with images is an inherited trait. By extracting and manipulating these images through paint, she forms an emotional connection to these events that are otherwise intangibly experienced through a screen.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGreen received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Green has shown her work nationally at many institutions including the Jersey City Museum, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Zimmerli Art Museum, and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In 2023, Green had her<\/span> first museum solo exhibition<\/span><\/a> at the D\u2019Amour Museum of Fine Arts at the Springfield Museums in Springfield, MA. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the international Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and a fellowship from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2023, Green\u2019s work was featured in John Seed\u2019s book<\/span> More Disruption: Representation in Flux<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a poignant survey of forty-three internationally acclaimed painters whose works address issues of realism within contemporary painting. Green\u2019s work is collected both privately and in public institutions such as the Springfield Museums, University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Forbes Library, and Western New England University.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGreen lives and works in Springfield, MA with her husband, artist Andrae Green, and their three children.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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Christa Whitten","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/shadows-taller-than-our-souls-christa-whitten/","description":"Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition by Christa Whitten.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nCairns have long served as way-finding constructions in terrain where the trail may become unclear. These carefully stacked rock piles act as navigational aids and are trusted to guide the way in critical conditions, such as when dense fog or storms obscure the path. They provide direction in uncertain times. These cairns are offered as places to pause and reflect, reminding us to focus on the waypoints in the storm and move with them. When we act in line with a purpose, the resulting shadows are long and contain a multitude of ripples. <\/span>\r\n\r\nShadows Taller Than Our Souls<\/em> is curated by David Borawski.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n
About the Artist<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nChrista Whitten is a visual artist known for vibrantly colorful, evocative work, often utilizing paper in two-dimensional and sculptural applications. Her work\u2019s intention is to provide an opportunity to access the intangible inner landscapes we carry within and explore their relationships to wider contexts. She has exhibited throughout New England, including the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Silvermine Art Center (where she is a guild member), ArtWalk Hartford, and the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton, MA. In addition, she enjoys collaborating with other artists to produce work for publication, such as \u2018snffbx press\u2019 artist books and illustrations for a children\u2019s book entitled \u201cReach for the Stars.\u201d She lives and works in northern Connecticut.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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Join us on\u00a0<\/strong>Saturday, February 22, 4:00 pm\u00a0<\/strong>for a conversation with author Kent Dunlap to celebrate the launch of his new book, The Neck: A Natural and Cultural History<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"Attitude and attention, thought and speech, movement and sensation, air and sustenance, they all depend on the neck....Mr. Dunlap\u2019s fascinating discourse travels through anatomy, paleontology, anthropology, the arts, the zoo, museums, medicine, murder and more.\" -\u00a0WSJ<\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\nA 300-million-year tour of the prominent role of the neck in animal evolution and human culture.\r\n\r\nHumans give a lot of attention to the neck. We decorate it with jewelry and ties, kiss it passionately, and use it to express ourselves in words and songs. Yet, at the neck, people have also shackled their prisoners, executed their opponents, and slain their victims. Beyond the drama of human culture, animals have evolved their necks into various shapes and uses vital to their lifestyles.\u00a0The Neck<\/i>\u00a0delves into evolutionary time to solve a living paradox\u2014why is our neck so central to our survival and culture but so vulnerable to injury and disease?\r\n\r\nBiologist Kent Dunlap shows how the neck's vulnerability is not simply an unfortunate quirk of evolution. Its weaknesses are intimately connected to the vessels, pipes, and glands that make it vital to existence. Fun and far-reaching,\u00a0The Neck<\/i>\u00a0explores the diversity of forms and functions of the neck in humans and other animals and shows how this small anatomical transition zone has been a locus of incredible evolutionary and cultural creativity.\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\nPROGRAM:\r\n\r\n4:00 - 4:30 - Refreshments\r\n\r\n4:30 - 5:00 - Kent will be interviewed by Tema Kaiser Silk<\/a> from New England Public Media\r\n\r\n5:00 - 5:30 - Audience Q&A\r\n\r\n5:30 - 6:00 - Book signing\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\nThis event is FREE to the public, but will require advance registration.\r\n\r\nBooks will be sold onsite by River Bend Bookshop<\/a>, on the day of the event. Concessions will be open and available if guests want to purchase beverages, popcorn, and snacks.\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\nPhoto by\u00a0Nick Caito\r\n\r\nKent Dunlap\u00a0is a Professor of Biology at Trinity College in Hartford, where he teaches physiology and anatomy and researches the neurobiology and behavior of fish (animals without necks!). In the summers, he makes pottery and sculpts ceramic animals.\r\n\r\n ","image":"","startDate" : "2025-02-22","endDate" : "2025-02-22","dateCreated":"2025-02-18 18:48:25","offers":[{"@type":"Offer","description":"Tickets","validFrom":"Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0500","url":"https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/sJKxF4uJRnjwThcmHzXSlw","priceCurrency":"USD","availability":"InStock","potentialAction" : {"@type": "BuyAction","description":"Purchase Tickets","startTime":"Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0500","target" : "https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/sJKxF4uJRnjwThcmHzXSlw"}}],"location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Real Art Ways","telephone":"(860) 232-1006","sameAs":"https://www.realartways.org","image":"https://www.realartways.org/wp-content/themes/toolset-bootstrap/img/logo-realartways.png","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"56 Arbor St #1","addressLocality":"Hartford","addressRegion":"CT","postalCode":"06106","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"@context":"https://www.schema.org/","@type":"Event","name":"North Sun","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/north-sun/","description":"
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Join us on\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, March 14, 6:30 pm\u00a0<\/strong>for a conversation with author Ethan Rutherford to celebrate the launch of his new book, North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cNORTH SUN is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is\u00a0completely exhilarating.\"- Edward Carey, author of Little, The Swallowed Man<\/em>, and Edith Holler: A Novel<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cThis book is bonkers and I loved every rollicking, awkward, solemn, gorgeously written, isolated, melancholic, beautiful moment I spent with Arnold Lovejoy, his thoughts, his crew, the unending ice, and the sea, the empty-not-so-empty sea. Ethan Rutherford\u2019s NORTH SUN<\/em> is a damn harrowing sorrowful delight.\u201d\u2014Manuel Gonzales, author of The Miniature Wife<\/em> and The Regional Office is Under Attack!<\/em>\r\n\r\n\"Haunting, hallucinatory, and unrelentingly gorgeous, NORTH SUN<\/em> feels as real as a history and as strange as a myth. The depths of Rutherford's imagination left me enraptured and unsettled. This is the kind of book that will keep talking to you long after you've finished reading.\" - Jennifer duBois, author of The Last Language<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how, but Ethan Rutherford did it: He wrote Moby Dick for our times.\u201d- Emily Barton, author of Brookland<\/em> and The Book of Esther<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cThe evocative first novel from Rutherford (after the story collection\u00a0Farthest South<\/em>) depicts the end of the whaling era in the late 1870s. Worn-out captain Arnold Lovejoy is tasked by whaling baron Mr. Ashley with retrieving his son-in-law, Benjamin Leander, who\u2019s gone native on the Alaskan coast after his ship was crushed by the ice, leaving his wife Sarah and their frail child behind. Accompanying Captain Lovejoy aboard the whaleship\u00a0Esther\u00a0are two others with tasks of their own: mysterious passenger Edmund Thule and a presence unseen by most, a seabird-man spirit named Old Sorrel who\r\nbegins to haunt the crew halfway through the voyage.\r\n\r\nAs Lovejoy sails the\u00a0Esther\u00a0to the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska in search of Leander, his crew hunts whales for oil and sport. Chronicling in brisk and poetic prose their numerous travails, needless deaths, and hidden perversions, Rutherford plumbs the depths men will sink to in extracting what they desire from nature and their fellow man. This harsh and stark ballad of a bygone time will move readers.\u201d - Publishers Weekly<\/em>\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\nPROGRAM:\r\n\r\n6:00 - Doors Open\r\n\r\n6:30 - 6:45 - Poet Clare Rossini will open the program\r\n\r\n6:45 - 7:15 - Ethan will show a short presentation and read an excerpt from North Sun<\/em>\r\n\r\n7:15 - 8:00 PM - Book signing\r\n\r\nMusic courtesy of\u00a0Sinan Bakir<\/a>\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\nThis event is FREE to the public, but will require advance registration.\r\n\r\nBooks will be sold onsite by River Bend Bookshop<\/a>, on the day of the event. Concessions will be open and available if guests want to purchase beverages, popcorn, and snacks.\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\n(Photo of Ethan Rutherford by Lou Russo)\r\n\r\nEthan Rutherford is the author of two story collections\u2014Farthest South<\/em> and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories<\/em>\u2014and for these works has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize and CLMP\u2019s Firecracker Award, received honorable mention for the PEN\/Hemingway Award, was a\r\nBarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award.\r\n\r\nNorth Sun<\/em>, or the<\/em> Voyage of the Whaleship Esther<\/em> is his first novel.\r\n\r\n ","image":"","startDate" : "2025-03-14","endDate" : "2025-03-14","dateCreated":"2025-02-18 18:49:10","offers":[{"@type":"Offer","description":"Tickets","validFrom":"Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:30:00 -0400","url":"https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/uEz-R41S6j8n8vRpDKZZnw","priceCurrency":"USD","availability":"InStock","potentialAction" : {"@type": "BuyAction","description":"Purchase Tickets","startTime":"Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:30:00 -0400","target" : "https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/uEz-R41S6j8n8vRpDKZZnw"}}],"location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Real Art Ways","telephone":"(860) 232-1006","sameAs":"https://www.realartways.org","image":"https://www.realartways.org/wp-content/themes/toolset-bootstrap/img/logo-realartways.png","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"56 Arbor St #1","addressLocality":"Hartford","addressRegion":"CT","postalCode":"06106","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"@context":"https://www.schema.org/","@type":"Event","name":"Improvisations Now","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/improvisations-now-march-16/","description":"
Experience music imagined and created in real-time. This series runs from September 2024 to May 2025. Check out the full schedule\u00a0here<\/a>!<\/h5>\r\n
March 16 Performance:<\/h5>\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\nDoYeon Kim-gayageum\r\n
<\/span>During her traditional Korean training, she won numerous international competitions for her gayageum performances, including the Dong-A Ilbo Traditional Music Competition (Gold Prize, 2009), and the On-Nala Korean Music Competition (Gold Prize, 2011). DoYeon is also a graduate of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was the first student ever admitted to the school playing any kind of Korean traditional instrument. She joined the faculty at her alma mater (2022). She also holds graduate degrees from Berklee\u2019s Global Jazz Institute.
<\/span>She has worked with numerous composers, performing several world premieres, and has been an invited guest lecturer for gayageum and Asian music at Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Universidad Nacional De Colombia, Dartmouth College, and many other universities. The Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra, a traditional music orchestra in Korea, has invited her as a music director (2021), and improvisation conductor (2023). DoYeon makes an effort to share a new and broader approach to music, drawing from Korean traditional music, improvisation, and development of original playing techniques.
<\/span>DoYeon has performed throughout the world leading the Kim Do Yeon Band, and alongside many improvisers, including Tyshawn Sorey, Joe Morris, Agusti Fernandez, Tony Malaby and Anthony Coleman. Her first album, GaPi (2017), intimately combined traditional Korean music and jazz, and was nominated for a 2018 Korean Grammy Award in the crossover album category. The same year, DoYeon released the free improvisation album Macrocosm with Joe Morris, and performed on Jim Snidero\u2019s Korean themed jazz album Project-K (2020), alongside Dave Douglas, Orrin Evans, Linda Oh and Rudy Royston. DoYeon Kim was recognized by Grammy.com as one of 7 Musicians Pushing Ancient Asian Instruments Into The Future (2021), and is performing projects at Roulette as a Van Lier Fellow (2023).<\/span><\/p>\r\nLearn more about DoYeon\u00a0here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n\r\nDan O\u2019Brien-tenor, soprano, alto, baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute\r\n\r\nDan O'Brien is a woodwind player (alto sax, flute, clarinet) who was quite active in the early Contemporary period prior to the pandemic. He performed with Leap of Faith<\/em>, The Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub-Units<\/em> project at Third Life Studios<\/em> in Somerville, 3 of the 6 Graphic Scores for the full Leap of Faith Orchestra, Mekaniks,<\/em> and Turbulence<\/em>. He came to our scene along with Zach Bartolomei, also a reed player, and they performed together on most of the sets.\r\n\r\nLearn more about Dan\u00a0here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\nBrad Barret-bass\r\n\r\n\u201cA true virtuoso of the double bass with unlimited abilities. The possibilities of Free Music afford him the challenge to operate on the frontier of music, while his great technique grounds him with precision and musicality.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Joe Morris<\/em>\r\n\r\nBrad Barrett is a bassist, improviser, and educator. His practice engages the tools of improvisation and southern musical traditions to interrogate the complex interplay between freedom and structure. The\u00a0Jazz Times\u00a0<\/em>has described Barrett\u2019s style as \u201cdiced bits of Derek Bailey skronk\u201d infused with \u201cDelta blues twang,\u201d and the\u00a0Free Music Collective<\/em>\u00a0has lauded his playing as \u201csingularly rhythmically genius.\u201d In 2019, his first album,\u00a0Cowboy Transfiguration\u2014<\/em>featuring Joe Morris on guitar and MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey on percussion\u2014garnered critical acclaim for its distinctive sonic landscapes and virtuosity. Unlike conventional approaches to composition that place decision-making authority in the hands of a single composer, the compositional frameworks in\u00a0Cowboy Transfiguration<\/em>\u00a0challenge players to maximize their creative freedom while adhering to rules for shared leadership. Over the past decade, Barrett has worked as an in-demand freelance musician; has performed with jazz luminaries such as Jason Moran, Sheila Jordan, Julian Lage, Evan Parker, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Taylor Ho Bynum and Rakalam Bob Moses; and has appeared on several noteworthy albums. In addition, Barrett is an award-winning educator whose innovative teaching practice has been consistently supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Barrett holds a DMA in Contemporary Improvisation and a MM in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory.\r\n\r\nLearn more about Brad\u00a0here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\nJoe Morris-percussion, electronics\r\n\r\nJoe Morris is a composer\/improviser multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, double bass, mandolin, banjo, banjouke electric bass and drums. He is also a recording artist, educator, record producer, concert producer\/curator and author. His is considered to be one of the most original and important improvising musicians of our time. Down Beat magazine called him \u201cthe preeminent free music guitarist of his generation.\u201d Will Montgomery, writing in The Wire magazine called him \u201cone of the most profound improvisers at work in the U.S.\u201d\r\n\r\nHe is originally from New Haven, Connecticut. At the age of 12 he took lessons on the trumpet for one year. He started on guitar in 1969 at the age of 14. He played his first professional gig later that year. With the exception of a few lessons he is self-taught. The influence of Jimi Hendrix and other guitarists of that period led him to concentrate on learning to play the blues. Soon thereafter his sister gave him a copy of John Coltrane\u2019s OM, which inspired him to learn about Jazz and New Music. From age 15 to 17 he attended The Unschool, a student-run alternative high school near the campus of Yale University in downtown New Haven. Taking advantage of the open learning style of the school he spent much of his time playing music with other students, listening to ethnic folk, blues, jazz, and classical music on record at the public library and attending the various concerts and recitals on the Yale campus, including performances by Wadada Leo Smith. He worked to establish his own voice on guitar in a free jazz context from the age of 17, drawing on the influence of Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor,Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman as well as the AACM, BAG, and the many European improvisers of the \u201970s. Later he would draw influence from traditional West African string music, Messian, Ives, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Lyons, Leroy Jenkins, Steve McCall and Fred Hopkins. After high school he performed in rock bands, rehearsed in jazz bands and played totally improvised music with friends until 1975 when he moved to Boston.\r\n\r\nLearn more about Joe\u00a0here<\/a>.","image":"","startDate" : "2025-03-16","endDate" : "2025-03-16","dateCreated":"2024-12-19 11:40:48","offers":[{"@type":"Offer","description":"Tickets","validFrom":"Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:30:00 -0400","url":"https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/qjBvzFs4GNXeQBeKK4vSkg","priceCurrency":"USD","availability":"InStock","potentialAction" : {"@type": "BuyAction","description":"Purchase Tickets","startTime":"Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:30:00 -0400","target" : "https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/qjBvzFs4GNXeQBeKK4vSkg"}}],"location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Real Art Ways","telephone":"(860) 232-1006","sameAs":"https://www.realartways.org","image":"https://www.realartways.org/wp-content/themes/toolset-bootstrap/img/logo-realartways.png","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"56 Arbor St #1","addressLocality":"Hartford","addressRegion":"CT","postalCode":"06106","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"@context":"https://www.schema.org/","@type":"Event","name":"Infinity Avenue: A Concert, Retrospective, and 70th Birthday with Robert Carl","url":"https://www.realartways.org/event/infinity-avenue-a-concert/","description":" \r\n\r\n\"Robert Carl's music, to my ear at least, has always felt like the work of a particularly sensitive sonic observer of the world. Originally a student of history before he refocused his efforts into music, his interest in time, memory, and space are veins running through his compositions, his work more given to conjuring imagery than narrative plot. And whether inspiration is mined in the wake of a seascape or travelers on a speeding bullet train, the resulting music tends to carry a distinct organic beauty and rich, encompassing depth.\" - Julia Lu, NewMusicBox<\/em>\r\n\r\nRobert Carl has been in Hartford for 40 years, and while he has been all over the world presenting his music, this has been his home base. He\u2019s also had a similarly long relationship with Real Art Ways, going back to the 1980s.\r\n\r\nThis concert celebrates Robert\u2019s time here with a program of 5 recent pieces. Three were released last year on a CD by Neuma Records, featuring live acoustic instruments with computer-assisted electronic accompaniment. The other two are world premieres!\r\n\r\n
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Program:<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nUpdraft<\/em> (2013) for trombone and electroacoustic accompaniment\r\nMatt Russo<\/a>, trombone\r\n\r\nSplectar<\/em> (2021) for electric guitar with Max-computer processing\r\nMatt Sargent<\/a> (co-composer)\r\n\r\nInfinity Avenue<\/em> (2015) for open-form ensemble\r\nRobert Carl, laptop\r\nSteve Bonacci<\/a>, saxophone\r\nMatt Sargent<\/a>, electric guitar\r\nKyle Grimm<\/a>, contrabass\r\n\r\nWanderers<\/em> for extended pianist* (2023)\r\nRobert Carl, piano\r\n\r\nHaiku from a Horrible Year<\/em> for soprano and five instruments* (2020)\r\nTexts by William Deatherage\r\n\r\nGilda Lyons<\/a>, soprano\r\nAllison Hughes, flute\r\nAlex Kollias<\/a>, clarinet\r\nSelah Kwak, violin\r\nRoselyn Hobbs<\/a>, viola\r\nKyle Grimm<\/a>, contrabass\r\n\r\n*Premiere\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\n
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Join us Thursday, February 20, from 6 to 9 PM for our Creative Cocktail Hour.<\/h5>\r\n
Admission is free.<\/h5>\r\n
We'll have music, a food truck, custom cocktails, hands-on art-making activities, and exhibitions on view!<\/h5>\r\n
But most importantly, you'll be there!<\/h5>\r\n \r\n
On View:<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nThin Ice<\/em> by\u00a0Joseph Slominski<\/a>\r\n\r\nDistant Bystander<\/em> by Priya N. Green<\/a>\r\n\r\nShadows Taller Than Our Souls<\/em> by Christa Whitten<\/a>\r\n\r\nReal Wall:\u00a0Bethani Blake<\/a>\r\n\r\nFalse\/Idle by Doug Beattie (2FL 56 Arbor)\r\n
Live Music:<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nFelipe Fournier<\/a> Latin Jazz Quartet\r\n\r\nPerformers:\r\n\r\nLatin Grammy-Winning Artist Felipe Fournier - Vibraphone\r\n\r\nDan Martinez - Bass\r\n\r\nFernando Garcia - Drums\r\n\r\nNelson Bello - Percussion\r\n
Food:<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nCraftbird<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n(This CCH is made possible by generous support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council)<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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The series takes place in person on the second Wednesday of the month from September 2024 through May 2025. Each night typically begins with a poetry reading featuring regionally or nationally known poets, followed by an open mic featuring readers with one poem (one page).<\/h5>\r\nOn Wednesday, March 12, at 7 PM<\/strong>, Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host\u00a0Julie Choffel and Richard Michelson.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAuthors\u2019 books will be available to buy for book signing and conversation. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.\u00a0Bring a friend!\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis monthly event is free of charge. Ample parking is available via the 56 Arbor parking lot.\r\n\r\n--\r\n