Alisha B. Wormsley
Inter Disciplinary Artist
Education
MFA candidate Bard College Film/Video
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Photography and Digital Media, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2017 Artup Artist Selection travel to South Africa
2016 AW Mellon Fund for afronauta: DVD Magazine
City of Pittsburgh Mayor’s award for Public Art
2015 Nominated for a USA Artist Fellowship
Investing in Professional Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation
Pittsburgh Foundation Advancing Black Art Grant
2014 Heinz Award for Homewood Artist Residency Program
Artist in Residence, Studio XX, Montreal Canada
Featured Artist for HTMLLES Feminist Digital Art Festival, Montreal Canada
Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity Grant for travel to Montreal
Sprout Seed Award for afronaut(a): an exploration in film, Pittsburgh PA
Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative Funding for afronaut(a)
Selected Artist for CSA PGH, http://www.csapgh.com, Pittsburgh PA
Flight School Fellowship: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts/Pittsburgh Filmmakers
2013 Artists in Residence, 2 month summer residency, Arts League, Houston TX
AW Mellon Fund for afronauta: an Exploration of Futurist films
Pittsburgh Foundation Award for film series Children of NAN
2012-13 Artist in Residence at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2012 Artist in Residence, Unity Lodge, Accra, Ghana
2011 Pittsburgh Foundation Artist Award, Reverse Migration Project:
2010-11 August Wilson fellow, The August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh PA
2010 Lyman Fund for Found Art and Excess global project
2009 Tribeca Film School projects grant with Romare Bearden Foundation
2009 Artist in Residence, Galeria Arte, Santiago de Cuba
2009 Southern Exposure Teaching Artist Grant
2008-10 3 year Multi-Media Arts Residency, Project Row House, Houston TX
2003 Awarded NYFA project grant to finish writing project in France
2002 UC Berkeley Kroeber Travel Grant- photo-documentary in Santiago de Cuba
1998 Rotary Student Discovery Scholarship to travel to Germany, Spain, France,
England, Prague, Italy and Morocco
Public Art Installations
2018
Selected Market Square Public Artist
2017
Larimer Well Project, Lead Artist Design Public Well, Pittsburgh PA
Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
August Wilson Park, Stargazing, Lead Artist, Hill District, Pittsburgh PA
Activist Print, We Live, Solo Print Installation, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
Exhibitions/Screenings
2018
Artup exchange South Africa, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA
2017
Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
Activist Print, We Live, Solo Print Installation, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2016
afronaut(a) film series DVD Magazine, UNDERGROUND
John Reigert, Group Show, SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2015
Hands Up, group show, Pittsburgh arts for Social Practice, Pittsburgh PA
HereAfter, with Ryan Lammie, ArtSpace 616, Sewickley PA
Children of NAN screening, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit MI
Children of NAN featured film, Inkanyiso collective, Johanesburg South Africa
2014
Performing Whiteness/Performing Blackness, Allegheny College, Meadville PA
PROOF, Solo show, Studio XX, HTMLLES Festival, Montreal Canada
Solo Video works Screening, Cinema Politica, Concordia University, Montreal Canada
Afronaut(a) 2.0 film Salon Series, Kelly StrayHorn Theater, Pittsburgh PA
PROOF, Art League, Houston TX
Braddock Art Lending Library, on rotation as part of Transformazium arts collective
@ Carnegie International, CMA, Pittsburgh PA
CSA PGH @ Fieldwork, Pittsburgh PA
Afrofuturist Affair @ Yell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Afronaut(a) film Salon Series, Kelly StrayHorn Theater, Pittsburgh PA
On Paper, 4925 Penn Ave Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
Fresh Works @ the Alloy, Pittsburgh PA
Divine Intersections, Iona Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
Unnamed, Multi Media Performance Exhibition, Arts League, Houston TX
Intersections, Arts League of Houston, TX
Studio Enertia @ the Beauty Box, Project Row House, Houston TX
There Are Black People In the Future, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
Octavia E. Butler Celebration of the Fantastic Arts, Spelman University, Atlanta GA
Black ExistentialismS: Situating Black Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, PA
2012
For Autistic Black Boys Who Are Too Curious, La Maison Fleur, Detroit MI
Salon II, Maison Fleur, Detroit MI
Hear Now, Kelly StrayHorn Theater, Pittsburgh PA
Errare, SXSW, Austin TX
Sonando En Color, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Fashioned in Time, Corridor Gallery, New York, NY
Willow, Trig and Track, etown Gallery, Honolulu HI
2011
Cry of the Third Eye, Director of Photography for film by Lisa Harris, Project Row Houses, Houston TX
Gertrudes Lot, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, - Pittsburgh Biennial
Transformation of Oshe, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Stacks, Sewickley Arts Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA
My Mythos, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
Rush/Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - group show
2010
Architechturally, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Lilith, Project Row House, Houston TX
New Century, Brecht Forum, New York NY
Group Show, Romare Bearden Foundation, New York NY
Group Show, Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY
Found art installation, Moraine Park, PA
Espacio Entramada, Galeria Arte Universal, Santiago de Cuba
2008
Group Show, Aperture, New York, NY
Lilith, Project Row House, Houston TX - Installation and Performance of multi media opera
Willow, Trig and Track , Le Petit Toukouleur, Brooklyn NY
Group Show, Lawndale Art center, Houston TX
Group Show, Freeman Carter Gallery, Houston TX
2006
Carballino, Spain – Designed and Installed collage mural exhibited for the Festa de Pulpo
Tribes Gallery, New York, NY - exhibition of works and installation of a photOpera
Helen Mills Theatre, New York, NY – group show benefit against domestic violence
Midtown Art center in Houston TX, – installation of a photOpera
Well-Hung Gallery, Houston TX – an installation of a photOpera
Three-Muse Gallery, Houston TX – exhibition of montage work
Java Studios, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY- exhibition of montage works in group show
Old Vic Theatre, London, England – exhibition of photographs on a play based on the Glass Menagerie
2005
a photOpera:
Mid Town Arts in Houston
Java Studios in Greenpoint Brooklyn
Giant Robot, San Francisco, CA- Group show for album and skateboard art
111 Minna San Francisco, CA– exhibited photography, montage art, and design work in group show
2004
World Stage: Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Kali Yuga: The Age of Chaos
Set Design for Indonesian Puppet Theatre performance directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, World tour
2002
Santiago de Cuba, Inter Nos, Taller de Cultura – Photo-document mural conference
Photographs exhibited at the Taller de Cultura and Galeria de Arte Universal
Panels
2017
Activist Print Panel Discussion, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2016
Pathways to Social Justice, Winchester Thurston, Pittsburgh PA
2015
Inernational Sculpture Conference, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh PA
Carol Brown Artist Award Selection Panel, Pittsburgh Foundation
By Any Means, Carnegie Lecture Hall, Pittsburgh PA
SIX x ATE, Silver Eye Photography, Pittsburgh PA
2014
BlackStar Film Festival @ Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh PA
Teaching Experience
2015-Present
Adjunct Professor Electronic Media Studio, Carnegie Mellon University
Exploring concepts of working with time based media
2011-2014
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION THROUGH THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Conduct trainings and workshops for teachers and organizational leaders on how to implement human rights into Arts Education
Teaching Artist, arts Education specialist --- 2004-Present
Artist-teaching residencies in various Institutions, Museums and Schools in nationally and internationally. I have extensive experience designing, writing and facilitating arts/project based curriculum in collaboration with exhibitions, school curriculum and various organizations (list below).
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
Gateway to the Arts, Pittsburgh PA
Studio Museum of Harlem. New York, NY
The Romare Bearden Foundation, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Pittsburgh, PA
International Center of Photography Bard College, New York, NY
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn NY
Dorothy Day Center/Faith Ringgold Museum, New York, NY
Children’s Aid Society, New York, NY
August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh PA
Miller African American Centered Academy, Pittsburgh PA
Rex Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Project Row House, Houston TX
Teaching Artist/public artist - Nationally and Internationally
Led and participated in numerous mural and public art projects in the US, South America, Caribbean, Europe and North Africa. (Detailed List upon Request)
set and graphic designer, encompass new opera, brooklyn, ny --- 2006-2008
Designed all media for events and publications. Contributed to set design compiling and creating images for projections.
Publications
2016
The Future is Present and All Around, by Tameka Cage Conely, The OFFING Magazine
2015
Interview, Venison Magazine, by Katherine Saviskas
Resume: A newsmaker you should know / Artist Alisha Wormsley's work plus her students' creations to be displayed, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
2013
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture- Ytasha Womack
2011
Roving Eye: Flying High in Pittsburgh by Eric Shiner, Art in America
Pittsburgh Biennial Catalog
22 women artists deliver provocative show at The Warhol
By Mary Thomas Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2011 La Times Magazine
2011 Pittsburgh Post Gazette
2010 Lea Muses, Lea Muses
Collections
Bronx Museum
Andy Warhol Museum
A. Moore Collection
Danny Simmons
Kim Collection
Romare Bearden Foundation
Johanne Bryant
Nancy Washington
Bearden Estate
Art Lending Library: Braddock Library
Xesus Carbidillo
Galerie Arte Universal: Santiago de Cuba