For the sixth iteration of Nasty Women Connecticut’s annual exhibition, we look to the writing of bell hooks to make sense of feminisms’ shortcomings to further her project of gathering as an essential activity of feminist movement. We design this year’s exhibition as a space for creative forms of gathering and hosting that celebrates openness and inclusivity, but also makes space for our contemporary skepticism to come to the foreground. What’s arts capacity to mobilize feminist movement and positive social change?

Evoking hooks’ text, The Will to Change, Nasty Women Connecticut presents work by artists, designers, poets, curators, performers, community-organizers, cultural producers and thinkers of all backgrounds that wrestles with these questions through the illumination of first-person perspectives.

This exhibition will be on view at the Lyman Allan Art Museum from June 18 - August 12, 2022. The address is 625 Williams St, New London, CT 06320. Parking is free and the building is handicap accessible.