A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined

Image by Carolyn Castaño

Two exhibitions. 57 participating artists. Works on paper, painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and community workshops.

This fall, the Association of Hysteric Curators presents A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined, a multi-venue exhibition at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College and the Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery.

Through goddesses, monsters, mythological figures, supernatural beings, and speculative futures, participating artists consider transformation, gender equity, power, resistance, and the possibilities that emerge when familiar stories are reimagined through contemporary feminist experience.

Monsters challenge the status quo. Goddesses illuminate unknown possibilities. Between them lies a space where myth and reality collide and where we can ask what must end, what might emerge anew, and how another world might be possible.

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art

Chaffey College5885 Haven AvenueRancho Cucamonga, CA 91737

Exhibition: September 8–November 14, 2026

Opening Reception with the ArtistsSaturday, September 1212–2 p.m.

Join the Association of Hysteric Curators for the opening celebration of the Wignall Museum iteration of A Racket of Banshees. Meet the artists and spend an afternoon with art, music, and food. The event is free and open to the public.

Museum HoursMonday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m.Saturday: Noon–4 p.m.

Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery

Los Angeles Valley College5800 Fulton AvenueValley Glen, CA 91401

Exhibition: September 14–October 17, 2026

Opening Reception + Live PerformancesTuesday, September 1512–2 p.m.

Closing Reception + Performance Art FestivalSaturday, October 172–4 p.m.

The LAVC exhibition brings together two additional strands of the larger Goddesses and Monsters project: AHC’s traveling works-on-paper exhibition and its ongoing performance practice.

The works-on-paper exhibition arrives in Los Angeles after presentations at The Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Gallery. At LAVC, these works are joined by objects and documentation from performances presented as part of Art in Odd Places VOICE/WEHO in July 2025, along with a video installation of Scarlett Kim’s BEASTS.

Live performance is central to the LAVC exhibition. AHC artists will perform at both the opening reception on September 15 and the closing Performance Art Festival on October 17. The performances will be different at each event. Come to the opening and come back for the closing. The racket will be live.

Gallery HoursMonday: 1–6 p.m.Tuesday: Noon–5 p.m.Wednesday: 1–3 p.m.Thursday: Noon–5 p.m.

An Exhibition That Keeps Changing Form

A Racket of Banshees expands an ongoing AHC investigation that began with the 2023 online exhibition Goddesses and Monsters with LADIES’ ROOM.

Since then, the project has moved between digital space, galleries, museums, works on paper, video, performance, and the street. In July 2025, AHC presented Goddesses and Monsters: A Racket of Banshees as part of Art in Odd Places 2025: VOICE in West Hollywood. Across three days, artists used ritual, sound, installation, embodiment, and participatory performance to explore divinity, monstrosity, ecological crisis, resistance, and feminist transformation.

The 2026 exhibitions extend this history while bringing new artists and new forms into the conversation. Rather than treating mythology as something fixed in the distant past, A Racket of Banshees approaches myth as a living language: something inherited, contested, transformed, and continually retold.

What happens when the monster refuses to remain monstrous? What happens when the goddess steps outside the roles assigned to her? What can ancient stories reveal about the structures governing contemporary life, and what new stories might we need to imagine different futures?

Together, the artists of A Racket of Banshees create a contemporary feminist pantheon that is deliberately unruly, contradictory, embodied, and alive.

Participating Artists

Amanda Adkins, Adina Andrus, Susan Arena, Attic Portrait, Melanie Elyse Brewster, A. Laura Brody, Carolyn Castaño, Alessia Lupo Cecchet, Ching Ching Cheng, Monet Clark, Alice Clements, dama, Chelsea Dean, Victoria Delgadillo, Palmer Earl, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Tawny Featherston, Rachel Finkelstein, Malado Francine, Manu Gao, Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Julija Goyd, Zeal Harris, Tyler Hubby, Scarlett Kim, Raghubir Kintisch, Ibuki Kuramochi, Leslie Lanxinger, Zini Lardieri, Taryn Lee, Janet Levy, Marne Lucas, Maya Mackrandilal, Amanda Majors, Aline Mare, Patricia Maurides, Sarana Mehra, Alexandra Neuman, Matt Odom, Ruby Osorio, Lisa Oxley, Snežana Saraswati Petrović, Leah Piepgras, Mary Anna Pomonis, Mei Xian Qiu, C. Ryu, Jovi Schnell, Margie Schnibbe, Anke Therese Schulz, Carole Silverstein, Allison Stewart, Amy Swartelé, Kayla Tange, Rhonda Urdang, Marjan Khoshbakhti Vayghan, Ever Velasquez, and Carey Watters.

Make a Racket

A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined is organized by the Association of Hysteric Curators, a feminist art collective founded in 2014. Through exhibitions, performances, dialogue, and creative action, AHC creates opportunities for artists while imagining alternative feminist futures through collective practice.

Follow @associationofhystericcurators, @wignallmuseum, @chaffeycollege, and @lavcgallery for artist features, exhibition updates, and performance information.

Wignall Museum of Contemporary ArtSeptember 8–November 14, 2026Opening: September 12, 12–2 p.m.

Los Angeles Valley College Art GallerySeptember 14–October 17, 2026Opening + Performances: September 15, 12–2 p.m.Closing + Performance Art Festival: October 17, 2–4 p.m.

Come see the exhibitions. Come see the performances. Come make a racket.