The People Are the Light
By Alisha B. Wormsley
Silver Eye Center for Photography, 2019
Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in.
120 pages
$65.00
WPA Note:
WPA’s Black Women as/and the Living Archive was organized by Tsedaye Makonnen around Alisha B. Wormsley’s film Children of NAN: Mothership. The project brought together Wormsley and the film’s cast and collaborators for a series of performances, discussions, and screenings that took place in 2020 and culminated in a publication of the same name.
Description:
Alisha B. Wormsley poetically documents a month-long series of public art installations and workshops held in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. Centered on healing and cleansing, this book invites you to reflect on Homewood’s past and present and see a vision for its future. Twelve artist-collaborators, curated by Wormsley, lead the events and performances that are documented in this book.
Artists in featured in The People Are the Light: Dina “Free” Blackwell, Nisha Blackwell, Ayana “Sade” Clarke, Yona Harvey, Robert Hodge, Joy KMT, Ayanah Moor, Bekezela Mguni, Staycee Pearl, Ricardo Robinson, Felicia Savage, Anqwenique Wingfield, and Alisha B. Wormsley.
About the Author(s):
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. Wormsley's work has been honored and supported with a number of awards and grants. Her recent projects include: The People Are The Light (part of the Hillman Photography Initiative), afronaut(a) film and performance series (Homewood Artist Residency), Children of NAN: Mothership film series and archive, and There Are Black People in the Future body of work. These projects have been exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum, Octavia Butler conference at Spelman University, Carnegie Museum of Art, Johannesburg SA, Studio XX, Project Row Houses, Houston Art League, Rush Art Gallery, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and most recently the Mattress Factory. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Art at Carnegie Mellon University.