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. She states her work is "the future, and the past, and the present, simultaneously."

Life

Wormsley was born in

Sewickley, Pennsylvania Sewickley is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, west northwest of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River. It is a residential suburb of Pittsburgh. The population was 3,827 according to the United States Census 2010, 20 ...

and raised in the

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area. She currently resides in

and is an adjunct professor of art at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. She earned an MFA in film and video at

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

in New York, she studied Anthropology in undergrad and photography and digital media at the

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ...

in New York. She has been a teaching artist at various cultural institutions, including The Studio Museum of Harlem, the

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, The Romare Bearden Foundation, the

, and the

August Wilson Center for African American Culture The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is a U.S. nonprofit arts organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that presents performing and visual arts programs that celebrate the contributions of African Americans not only in Wester ...

. Wormsley is a recipient of a 2022

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in Fine Arts.

Selected awards

* City of Pittsburgh's Mayor's Award for Public Art * Homewood Artist Residency * Flight School Fellowship

Selected public art installations

* ''Larimer Well Project'', Pittsburgh, PA * ''The People are the Light'', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA * August Wilson Park, ''Stargazing'', Hill District, Pittsburgh, PA * Activist Print, ''We Live,'' Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA'

Selected exhibitions and screenings

* ''Afronaut(a)'' film series DVD Magazine, UNDERGROUND * ''Children of NAN'' featured film, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit MI * ''Performing Blackness :: Performing Whiteness'', Allegheny College, Meadville, PA * ''PROOF'', with Lisa E. Harris, StudioXX, HTMLLES Festival, Montreal, Canada * ''Transformation of Oshe'', August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA * ''My Mythos'', Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wormsley, Alisha Carnegie Mellon University faculty Bard College alumni Artists from Pittsburgh 21st-century American women artists People from Sewickley, Pennsylvania Year of birth missing (living people) Living people