The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) and Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA) are partnering with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Westport, CT. for a forty-artist exhibition held at MoCA from June 30–September 4, 2022. The exhibition, a textile survey of the ways in which gender, culture, and sociopolitics intersect, was the inaugural collaboration for CAMP and FAMA’s annual exhibition, Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse, in 2020.

Inspired by the gendered history of textile and fiber work and seeking to both open dialogue and democratize access to artistic practice, Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse sees topics such as capitalism’s effect on the body; the interplay of race and gender in fine art; reproductive justice; bodily autonomy; ageism; immigration and displacement explored through textiles. The result is a subversion of textiles’ perceived nature—soft, easy, women’s busy work—birthed from poignant and biting, sometimes jarring, social commentary.

“The timeliness of this exhibition is not lost in the obvious, but becomes another rung in the continual search for equality. At the time of the original exhibition’s opening on September 19, 2020, we mourned the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As we approach 2022’s [opening], we worry about the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade—that a right awarded in our lifetime would teeter on the balance of being revoked, turning reproductive and body rights over to a moral minority instead of the individual,” says CAMP founder, Melanie Prapopoulos.

The opening reception for Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse at MoCA Westport will be held on June 30, 2022 from 6–8 PM. The event is free and open to the public.