Gather at the Koehnline Museum of Art for the Opening Night Reception for Oakton's Annual WGSS Art Show, "Feminist Responses in a Tumultuous Time." The Opening Night Reception takes place on September 30, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

For this year’s annual juried WGSS art exhibition, Oakton College invited female-identifying, trans, and non-binary professional artists to submit a single work that provides a feminist lens through which to understand this socio-political moment. We asked artists for work that contends with the simultaneous anger over loss of autonomy and safety as well as hope for a better world. We were particularly interested in works that explored the social and ecological impacts of increasing nationalism, fascism and xenophobia on various socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, religious, ability-based, and international/global/regional groups. technique. Each submission expressed the creative and diverse ways in which women, feminist, queer and other minoritized groups use art to resist the attempts to divide and diminish us both at home and abroad. We are very grateful to the artists for their willingness to share their unique perspectives and considerable talents with the Oakton community.

Viewings of the exhibition run from September 30 through October 31 at the Koehnline Museum of Art during regular museum hours of 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturdays.