Alisha B. 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. Wormsley’s work has been honored and supported by a number of awards and grants. Her recent projects include: The People Are The Light (part of the Hillman Photography Initiative), afronaut(a) film and performance series (Homewood Artist Residency), Children of NAN: Mothership film series, and archive, and There Are Black People in the Future body of work. These projects have been exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum, Octavia Butler conference at Spelman University, Carnegie Museum of Art, Johannesburg SA, Studio XX, Project Row Houses, Houston Art League, Rush Art Gallery, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and most recently the Mattress Factory. She is currently working on: a public park design around community and sustainable water, a temporary installation in Pittsburgh’s Market square, and creating a public program to use her text “There Are Black People In the Future” to open up the discourse around displacement and gentrification. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Art at Carnegie Mellon University.