Archive
2021: Silent Fire
March 15 - Aug 15
In an effort to extend, de-silo and affirm the relevance of Yale’s 2019 initiative— “Women at Yale” — students from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music are partnering with Nasty Women Connecticut to curate a digital exhibition that merges women-composed performance dating back to the 1600s with contemporary art.
2020: Rituals of Resistance
March 8 - April 8
Contemplating the necessarily ritualistic, redundant and performative aspects of protest, Nasty Women Connecticut invites artists to address the age old legacies and technology-driven activities of organizing and demonstrating.
2019: Complicit: Erasure of the Body
March 4 - 31
Harnessing the complexities of the #MeToo Movement, Nasty Women Connecticut challenges artists to mine the act of complicity. How, when one’s voice is removed, is our body, sense of self and spirit also erased? What happens when this compromise is scaled up to the level of an institution, or nation state?
2018: Silence Breakers
March 8 - April 5
Artists working across disciplines address issues of consent and abuse, security and insecurity, as they are experienced, inherited and radically imagined in the home.
2017: Nasty Women New Haven
March 9 - April 8
New Haven joins over forty-one cities worldwide in the movement to organize an unjuried/uncensored Nasty Women exhibition in the wake of the 2016 presidential elections. This one month event publicly protests the white house administration’s plan to roll back reproductive rights, and raises funds to support Planned Parenthood of Southern New England.