The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of a new video exhibition. For Real This Time will showcase the work of artists Deanna Bowen, Allison Janae Hamilton, John Sims, Cauleen Smith, Martine Syms, Kara Walker and Bear Witness. During this extraordinary time, video has become the key medium contributing to the public sphere. “Artists in this exhibition are using the immediacy of video to reveal underexposed truths about the darker side of human behavior, offer ways to confront and process traumatic historical and recent events, and to spread messages of hope, each in their own distinctive visual language, said Ola Wlusek, Keith D. and Linda L. Monda Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. For Real This Time opens up a space for deeper reflection on the common experience of resilience across cultures in order to create a shift in our psyches that inspires tangible and effective change.