Screening and Artist Talk with Alisha B Wormsley

Join Revolutionary Care artist, Alisha B Wormsley for a screening from A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair. Join Revolutionary Care artist, Alisha B Wormsley for a screening from A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair, a three-part experimental film installation rooted in Black feminist cosmologies, ancestral veneration, and the ongoing call for reparations. Projected onto handwoven textiles inspired by African American quilting traditions, the work unfolds across Oakland, Tucson, and the Appalachian landscape of West Virginia, centering Black women artists, healers, and caretakers engaged in the embodied labor of survival and re-matriation. Through movement, ritual, and intimate acts of care, the films propose repair as aspiritual and relational practice—one grounded in land, kinship, and collective memory. From honoring the Earth as ancestor, to clearing space for healing, to invoking cosmic maternal power, each segment offers a distinct yet interconnected vision of restoration. Following the 22-minute screening, Wormsley will share additional video works and reflect on how this project connects to her broader practice, including her newest film in progress, The Temple of Our Survival. Alisha B Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose practice envisions the expansion of time and space and reMatriation. Her work transforms public space and collective imagination through projects rooted in liberated futures, ritual, and community care. Wormsley’s recent projects include Cosmologyscape, a 2023 Creative Time commission with collaborator Suzanne Kite, and major public art commissions such as the International Arrivals Corridor at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Her ongoing initiative There Are Black People in the Future—which generates dialogue around displacement and gentrification through exhibitions and community mini-grants—has been presented internationally, from the Oakland Museum of California to London’s Southbank Centre and San Francisco International Airport. She is the founder of Sibyls Shrine, a residency supporting Black artists who m/other, and is currently developing her film Children of NAN: A Survival Guide. The film presents tutorials and survival strategies for future Black femmes while exploring their relationship to ritual, craft, and the natural world. Wormsley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman/NYFA Award, and Assistant Professor of Art in Social Practice at Carnegie Mellon University. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist Artwork Credits: The Temple of Our Survival: Rituals of Repair by Alisha B Wormsley 2025-2026 Installation Tent with quilted cover and screen printed fabric on the interior, handmade rugs, pillows 41 x 31 x 1 in