Cybele Maylone, the executive director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, acknowledges that a show focused on her state’s artists might be a tough sell. “Some people may hear the idea of an exhibition of art-making in Connecticut and immediately want to fall asleep,” Maylone told me. But that’s exactly what her museum now plans to do at least once a decade, and they’re kicking off this decennial project with I Am What Is Around Me—the first iteration of the concept, named for a line by Connecticut poet Wallace Stevens.