Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition by Real Art Award winner Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo.

Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo (b. 1999 in Burlingame, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist creating liberatory visions. Both historical liberation struggles and current resistance movements are central to how Adeyemo constructs the scenes in her work. At the intersection of assemblage, painting, and sculpture, Adeyemo pulls from the visual sensibilities of graffiti, protest art, Cuban solidarity posters, hand-drawn shop signs, and sensibilities (so-called “naive” art) as a means of contributing to a lineage of opposition. Adeyemo’s work includes a trash foraging practice, where she collects found and discarded objects from the street. She considers them to be “rejected by-products of a capitalist use-value structure,” and regards them animistically. They exist not only as found objects, but as fragments of experience, which she works with rather than on.

Founders Gallery: Gallery on the Green presents the August POP-UP Exhibit, an Art Tag Sale, and shows by Kate Emery and Steve Silk

 Exhibit: August 9, through September 1

Opening reception: August 10, 6-8PM – Free and open to the public. 

Time again for the very popular Pop-Up Show at Gallery on the Green.  The Pop-Up is a wonderful opportunity to purchase member art work no larger than 24 x 24 inches and priced at $250 or less.  You will find pieces to enhance the beauty of your home and office or to give as a unique gift.  For just the three weekends in August, choose from these special prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, collages and fiber art by the juried membership of the gallery.  At this special show you will be able to take the items at the time of your purchase.

Also on the first floor is an Art Tag Sale with priced-to-sell artwork, art books and art supplies (paints, markers, pencils, canvases, frames, paper, matting materials, camera equipment, etc.)  All items were donated by member artists and all proceeds benefit the Gallery.

 In the upstairs gallery Kate Emery and Steve Silk are showing “Scale of Wonders: Images of Intimacy and Awe,” depicting places from far away as well as those close to home and dear to our hearts. Both artists are long-time Farmington residents who have shared ideas, locations, and color techniques in their respective creations, whether made by paint or pixels. Different though their work may be, it highlights their shared reverence for and connection to the natural world.  These artists are donating a portion of their sales to the Farmington Watershed Association. 

Kate Emery began painting three decades ago as a part-time passion that grew with time and is now, after retiring, a full-time pursuit.  Emery says that “growing up in New England, with a passion for walking in the woods or along the river, I love places that envelop us, shrinking us back to the small, but connected pieces of a whole. It is from that place, with reverence, that I love to paint.”

 Steve Silk is a former newspaper photographer who worked many years at the Hartford Courant, and later at Fine Gardening magazine before transitioning to become a freelance photographer. His work has won scores of state, regional, and national awards. His current photographs represent a new direction: an idealized view of the natural world enhanced by use of photoshop to blend images taken over a period of time.  A dedicated traveler, Steve’s images in this show include scenes from Iceland and New England. Silk says that he has “always been drawn to photographing other worldly scenes where humans are either absent or nearly so in the grand scheme of things.”

An opening reception is on August 10, 6-8 p.m. The public is warmly invited to attend this free reception.

The Canton Artists’ Guild at the Gallery on the Green, the longest continuously-running artist guild in the state, has 3 separate galleries and hosts month-long exhibitions nine times a year. The gallery is located near the intersection of Dowd Avenue and Route 44 at 5 Canton Green Road in Canton. Hours are Friday – Sunday, 1-5 pm. The main floor gallery is handicapped accessible.

Real Art Ways presents a new community art project “No Guns, All Play” on Saturday, August 10, at 11:30 am at George Day Park (across from 56 Arbor Street).

The public is invited to this community event; refreshments will be served.

“No Guns, All Play” is a sidewalk tattoo, commissioned by Real Art Ways and designed and created by artist Steed Taylor. Walkways in the neighborhood park will be painted with brightly colored designs and will include the participation of neighborhood children.

Steed Taylor has created 50 similar works in cities including Beijing, New York City, Washington DC, Chicago and West Palm Beach.

Taylor’s street tattoos repurpose public space for art and bring socially engaging art to where people live.

This collaboration with Taylor stems from Real Art Ways’ commitment to its immediate neighborhood, including Park Art, a program for neighborhood youth that Real Art Ways has offered since 1990.

Youth in Park Art will observe and participate in the creation of “No Guns, All Play” beginning Wednesday, August 7, when Taylor arrives to begin the work.

This project is made possible by Love Your Block, a program of the City of Hartford, with additional support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council.

To learn more about Steed Taylor, you can check out his work here: https://steedtaylor.com

High Society: A Conversation about Art and Pharma

at Real Art Ways

56 Arbor St., Hartford CT

Date: August 01, 2024

Time: 6:00-7:00pm

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Parkville Fiber Arts Coop

56 Arbor Street, Hartford CT

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Chloe Atreya

Tidal River Reverses Flow

at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London

“Join us for an evening reception for the pop-up installation The Tidal River Reverses Flow by artist Chloe Atreya. Exploring human geography, genealogy, and language, The Tidal River Reverses Flow centers on family, history, and the desire to cultivate a relationship with the 10-mile radius encircling the midpoint of the Connecticut Thames (Pequot) River. Chloe E. Atreya is a multiracial artist and physician-scientist currently based in San Francisco, California, who previously lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut. This program will feature a brief talk about the artwork and a poetry reading by Evelyn Atreya.”

Time: 5 – 7 PM

Cost: Members Free / Non-Members $10

RSVP to 860.443.2545 ext. 2129 or email us info@lymanallyn.org
Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Address: 625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320

Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Denisse Griselda Reyes.

"I only found you when I stopped trying," Reyes’s first solo show in Connecticut, features short films, familial ephemera, and a new body of paintings that humorously explore themes of self-formation, reparative representation, and archival preservation. I only found you when I stopped trying serves as a thoughtful response to Reyes’s previous show, Did you have a hard time finding me? at A.I.R. Gallery. The titles draw inspiration from Yuri Herrera’s book, Signs Preceding the End of the World.

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Parkville Fiber Arts Cooperative

56 Arbor Street

Hartford, CT

“Come learn the practical and creative art of Visible Mending! FREE for Hartford residents + donation-based for everyone else.”

“Darning is the technique of mending a hole in cloth with a needle and thread alone. The process incorporates basic stitching and weaving to create beautiful, functional repairs. With a visible mending approach, we learn the basics on a provided fabric sample, incorporating embroidery stitches, weaving patterns, and color theory along the way. Everyone goes home with a completed sample and small kit to continue their mending at home. Optional: bring a personal garment that needs mending to consult on the best approach.

This workshop is free for Hartford residents and donation-based for everyone else. Simply register for free, and make a donation via Venmo or gofundme. Our Venmo is @ParkvilleFiber and our gofundme is here. Suggested donation is $45 to fully cover materials and instructor fee, however please donate within your means. Limited capacity of 8 participants. The week of the workshop, you'll receive an email with details on parking and building access. Thank you for supporting PFAC!”

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Saturday, July 13th, 5-8pm

The Arts Indistry: Loading Dock Gallery

93 Talcott Road

Hartford, CT

Parkville Fiber Arts Cooperative

56 Arbor Street

Hartford, CT

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