Alisha Wormsley

Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work is about collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color.[1] She states her work is "the future, and the past, and the present, simultaneously."[2]

Alisha Wormsley
Born
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMilton Avery School of Fine Arts, Bard College
Known forinterdisciplinary artist
Patron(s)Carnegie Mellon University

Life

Wormsley was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania and raised in the Pittsburgh area. She currently resides in Pittsburgh[3] and is an adjunct professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University.[4] She earned an MFA in film and video at Bard College in New York, she studied Anthropology in undergrad and photography and digital media at the International Center of Photography in New York.[5]

She has been a teaching artist at various cultural institutions, including The Studio Museum of Harlem, the Children's Aid Society, The Romare Bearden Foundation, the International Center of Photography, and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.[6] Wormsley is a recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.[7]

Selected awards
  • City of Pittsburgh's Mayor's Award for Public Art[8]
  • Homewood Artist Residency[9]
  • Flight School Fellowship[10]

Selected public art installations
  • Larimer Well Project, Pittsburgh, PA[11]
  • The People are the Light, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA[12]
  • August Wilson Park, Stargazing, Hill District, Pittsburgh, PA[13]
  • Activist Print, We Live, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA[14]

Selected exhibitions and screenings
  • Afronaut(a) film series DVD Magazine, UNDERGROUND[15]
  • Children of NAN featured film, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit MI[16]
  • Performing Blackness :: Performing Whiteness, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA[17]
  • PROOF, with Lisa E. Harris, StudioXX, HTMLLES Festival, Montreal, Canada[18]
  • Transformation of Oshe, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA[19]
  • My Mythos, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA[20]

References
  1. "Activist Print: Alisha B. Wormsley: We Live - The Andy Warhol Museum". The Andy Warhol Museum. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  2. "The Future Is Present and All Around | The Offing". The Offing. 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  3. "Resume: A newsmaker you should know / Artist Alisha Wormsley's work plus her students' creations to be displayed". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  4. "School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University Alisha Wormsley". www.art.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  5. "The People Are the Light | Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh". Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 2017-12-10. Archived from the original on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  6. Klein, Barbara (2012). "Reimagining Home". Carnegie Magazine. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  7. "Alisha Wormsley". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  8. Saffron, Jen. "Mayor Peduto Announces Public Art Award Winner - Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council". www.pittsburghartscouncil.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  9. "Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program awards $204,000". NEXTpittsburgh. 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  10. "Past Fellows | PF/PCA". pfpca.org. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  11. "Alisha Wormsley is using her art to promote water sustainability in Pittsburgh". NEXTpittsburgh. 2017-06-16. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  12. "The People Are the Light". Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  13. "Art Commission Meeting Minutes" (PDF). City of Pittsburgh. August 25, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  14. Lipput, Henry. "Alisha B. Wormsley Makes Art in the Fifth Dimension". communityvoices.post-gazette.com. Archived from the original on 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  15. "Afronaut(a) Film Series presents Underground". Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  16. "Charles H Wright Museum of African American History - Brown Paper Tickets". www.brownpapertickets.com. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  17. "Allegheny College Art Galleries To Present "Performing Blackness :: Performing Whiteness" « News Center | Allegheny College - Meadville, PA". sites.allegheny.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  18. "PROOF | Lisa E. Harris & Alisha B. Wormsley - Studio XX". Studio XX. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  19. "Roving Eye: Flying High in Pittsburgh - Art in America". Art in America. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  20. Ytash, Womack (October 2013). Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture (First ed.). Chicago. ISBN 9781613747964. OCLC 858861923.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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