Alisha Wormsley Explained

Alisha Wormsley
Birth Place:Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Milton Avery School of Fine Arts, Bard College
Known For:interdisciplinary artist
Patrons:Carnegie Mellon University

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]

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

Selected public art installations

Selected exhibitions and screenings

Notes and References

  1. News: Activist Print: Alisha B. Wormsley: We Live - The Andy Warhol Museum. The Andy Warhol Museum. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  2. News: The Future Is Present and All Around The Offing. 2016-02-16. The Offing. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  3. News: Resume: A newsmaker you should know / Artist Alisha Wormsley's work plus her students' creations to be displayed. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2018-03-25. en.
  4. Web site: School of Art Carnegie Mellon University Alisha Wormsley. www.art.cmu.edu. 12 January 2018 . en-US. 2018-03-25.
  5. News: The People Are the Light Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 2017-12-10. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 2018-03-25. en-US. 2018-03-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20180326141524/https://carnegiemuseums.org/the-people-are-the-light/. dead.
  6. Web site: Reimagining Home. Klein. Barbara. 2012. Carnegie Magazine. March 25, 2018.
  7. Web site: Alisha Wormsley . 2022-04-28 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US.
  8. Web site: Mayor Peduto Announces Public Art Award Winner - Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Saffron. Jen. www.pittsburghartscouncil.org. en-gb. 2018-03-25. 2018-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20181220231019/https://www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/about/press-room/25-press-releases/3785-mayor-peduto-announces-public-art-award-winner. dead.
  9. News: Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program awards $204,000. 2016-07-05. NEXTpittsburgh. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  10. Web site: Past Fellows PF/PCA. pfpca.org. en. 2018-03-25.
  11. News: Alisha Wormsley is using her art to promote water sustainability in Pittsburgh. 2017-06-16. NEXTpittsburgh. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  12. News: The People Are the Light. Carnegie Museum of Art. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  13. Web site: Art Commission Meeting Minutes. August 25, 2016. City of Pittsburgh. March 25, 2018.
  14. Web site: Alisha B. Wormsley Makes Art in the Fifth Dimension. Lipput. Henry. communityvoices.post-gazette.com. en-gb. 2018-03-25. 2017-07-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170713022031/http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-living/arts-blog/item/40732-alisha-b-wormsley-makes-art-in-the-fifth-dimension. dead.
  15. News: Afronaut(a) Film Series presents Underground. Kelly Strayhorn Theater. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  16. Web site: Charles H Wright Museum of African American History - Brown Paper Tickets. www.brownpapertickets.com. en-gb. 2018-03-25.
  17. Web site: Allegheny College Art Galleries To Present "Performing Blackness :: Performing Whiteness" « News Center Allegheny College - Meadville, PA. sites.allegheny.edu. en-US. 2018-03-25.
  18. News: PROOF Lisa E. Harris & Alisha B. Wormsley - Studio XX. Studio XX. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  19. News: Roving Eye: Flying High in Pittsburgh - Art in America. Art in America. 2018-03-25. en-US.
  20. Book: Ytash, Womack. Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture. 9781613747964. First. Chicago. 858861923. October 2013.

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