Real Art Awards 2023

Call for Artists!

Each year, Real Art Ways encourages emerging artists to apply for the Real Art Awards. If you are an artist, know an artist, or want to learn more information, please visit our website below!

In addition to a $2,500 prize, six artists will receive a solo exhibit at Real Art Ways, an exhibition publication with essay, curatorial assistance, and the opportunity for an artist talk.

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Cinema
Opens Friday, 7/7!

Past Lives
Showings at 3:05, 5:10, & 7:15!

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they reunite in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
"It’s a film full of quiet magic; of the power of words not spoken, and the enduring strength of love." - Seattle Times
"... a lyrical slow burn of a film that expertly holds back wellsprings of emotion, until it unleashes a deluge." - Washington Post
"It’s a movie that understands how yearning lives in your body even when you think you’ve set it aside." - Financial Times
"...liberates your tears and makes you fall in love with it. It is almost assuredly predestined to be the single best movie you see this year." -
Rolling Stone
97% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Re-Opens Friday, 7/7!
(You asked, we listened! Back for a limited run!)

Exhibition on Screen:
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
Showing at 1:00!

In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. The show sold out within days of going on sale. This film offers you the chance to experience the exhibition of the century on the big screen. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the genius of Vermeer and his fascinating and mysterious life.

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective brings together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance.

In all, 28 of his surviving 35 works.

"This is more than an exhibition. It's a miracle." - The Guardian

"There will never be another Vermeer show as great as this one." - Washington Post

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Opens Friday, 7/21!

Barbie
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place.
Unless you have a full-on existential crisis.
Or you're a Ken.

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Directed by Greta Gerwig.
Starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, Michael Cera, and Helen Mirren.

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Mark Your Calendar!
Creative Cocktail Hour
Thursday, 7/20 6-10pm!
(Outside, Weather Permitting)

Live Music: A 20-piece Disco-Punk Brass Band, based in Brooklyn!
Art Exhibition Openings
Visual Arts
Food and Beverages
Hands-on Art Making Activities Great for all Ages
And You!

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In Our Galleries:

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2022 Real Art Award Recipient Romina Chuls

Photo by John Groo

Drawing, sculpture, indigenous embroidery and knitting techniques.

Chuls explores feminist issues and reproductive choice surrounding Peruvian and Latin American women.

Romina's exhibition was recently featured in the Hartford Courant!

Check out the full article here!

Join us for an artist talk with
Romina Chuls!
Saturday, 7/8 at 2:30pm.

Chuls will take viewers around each work while discussing her artistic practice and delving deeply into the themes of her work, specifically through issues experienced by Peruvian and Latin American women, including territorial demarcation, nationalism, and sexual and reproductive rights.

Informed by her study of pre-Hispanic textiles and ceramics archives, Chuls articulates an understanding of abortion as part of a collective and more-than-human fertility cycle.

Speaking Sentences Backwards

Featuring Paloma Izquierdo, Miguel Gaydosh, Matthew Schreiber, Laura Henriksen, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and Dylan Hausthor

Curated by Cody Boyce

Photo by John Groo

Photography, sculpture, video, sound, holography, poetry, and design.

The featured artists look to broaden thresholds of perception, receiving signals through environment, radio waves, sub-bass frequencies, interference patterns the infra- and ultra- ranges of experience.