Thursday, June 30, 6 PM – 8 PM – Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse at MoCA Westport

Thursday, June 30, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

MoCA Westport
19 Newtown Turnpike
Westport, CT 06880

The exhibition is a collaboration with The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery) and the Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA), exploring how female artists, utilizing textiles as their medium, subvert the social expectation of crafting by lambasting this soft medium with political and social awareness.

The exhibition was curated by Melanie Prapopoulos, Maria Gabriela Di Giammarco, and Mario Andres Rodriguez of The CAMP Gallery.

Portions of this exhibition were originally shown at The CAMP Gallery Miami in partnership with FAMA in 2020. This inaugural collaboration featured predominantly female artists exploring their relationship with themselves and their communities at the intersections of femininity, race, history, and feminist sociopolitics. The 2020 exhibition coincided with the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women in the United States the right to vote, the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a Presidential election year.

The original exhibition has now expanded to include fiber works from artists in the Northeastern United States in an effort to reflect on action in the context of time while exploring the feminine experience and identity across space.

This version of the exhibition focuses on flags; the flag banner is used as a symbol of solidarity for the women of the suffrage movement and as an emblem of protest. The flags in Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse were assembled using mixed media and the fiber arts to ignite positive social change.

To bolster this exploration of the history of textile work within the scope of the feminine experience, Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse is being shown alongside works by sculptor Shelly McCoy and artist Aurora Molina, as well as an interactive fiber installation.

The exhibition is on view through September 4, 2022. Summer gallery hours are Wednesday 12 – 4 PM | Thursday 12 – 7 PM | Friday – Sunday 12 – 4 PM. Admission to MoCA Westport is currently complimentary for all visitors made possible through the generous gift of an anonymous donor.