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Our next exhibition, Cronos is juried by artist and curator of Real Art Ways, Peter Albano. Albano is a Hartford based artist, educator, curator, and gallerist. After receiving his BFA, Albano spent 18 months spelunking Hartford’s underground Park River and producing documentative/interpretive work mapping the riverway, under a project titled The Hog River Revival. Later, Albano became a resident muralist/sculpture artist at Wild Bill’s Nostalgia in Middletown, CT. In 2021, Winebox founded The Arts Industry and Loading Dock Gallery in West Hartford, eventually becoming the Visual Arts Manager at Real Art Ways in Hartford. In addition to his roles at Real Art Ways and The Arts Industry, Albano serves as the honorary curator for Hartford Theaterworks’ art gallery in celebration of their 40th anniversary season. Peter Albano is also an adjunct professor and lecturer at the University of Hartford.

While making art under the pseudonymPaco Winebox, Albano has been the recipient of a 2014 Arts Catalyze Placemaking Grant, 2016 Regional Initiative Grant, and 2023 Artist Fellowship Grant. Albano’s artwork will be on display at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from January through March of 2026.