Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Wormsley’s work is dedicated to the expansion and creation of time and space and the rematriation of Black/Indigenous Matriarch. Alisha is a mother, and founder of Sibyls Shrine, an arts collective and residency program for Black artists who M/other. Sibyls Shrine and her project, There Are Black People In The Future, both focus on the redistribution of resources and reimagination and rematriation of Black and Indigenous futures. Wormsley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. A 2023 Creative Time Commissioned Public Artist with Suzanne Kite, for their project Cosmologyscape, integrating media, public space, and public interaction, invitations for rest and dreaming rooted in practices of Afro-Futurism and Indigenous Protocol. Her newest film in process, Children of NAN: A Survival Guide, a film that presents tutorials and survival skills for future Black femmes, while exploring their relationship to ritual, craft, and the natural world won a 2023 Anonymous Was a Woman and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Environmental Art Grants Recipient and Sundance Interdisciplinary Grantee. Wormsley is an Assistant Professor of Art in the area of Social Practice at Carnegie Mellon University.
Alisha B. Wormsley, Remnants of an Advanced Technology, 2021. Photo by David Michael Cortes. Courtesy of the artist and CUE Art Foundation.
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Alisha B. Wormsley joins the Visiting Artist series in conjunction with the ICA at MECA&D's exhibition, otherwise, on view October 3 - December 13, 2025.
Storytelling has long been a way for people to make sense of the world and find agency in the face of significant adversity. In otherwise, exhibiting artists utilize elements of fiction in their work, transforming real-life issues into something otherworldly and innovative. Some artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from specific sources such as science fiction, oral traditions, and mythologies, while others craft intricate narratives inspired by real-world histories. Collectively, the artists in otherwise explore the potential of fictional storytelling to reimagine and reclaim historical and contemporary oppressions, paving the way for bold new futures.
Funded by the generous support of the TD Charitable Foundation.