Alisha B Womrsley received the 2025 UVP Residential Commission for her proposal, Children of NAN: a Survival Guide (working title), a film for future black femmes. The work will consist of a series of performed philosophies, myths, rituals, survival strategies on various landscapes staged in a mobile set handcrafted by Wormsley, which she will bring to Syracuse in July 2025 for a month at Sankofa Reproductive Health & Healing Center.

About the Artist

Alisha B Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the Black matriarchal lens, challenging contemporary views of modern American life through whichever medium she feels is the best form of expression. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts with longtime collaborator Li Harris. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and is an Assistant Professor of Art and Social Practice in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.

Artist’s website: alishabwormsley.com