From Boston to Brooklyn, Wormsley contributes to major initiatives exploring collective dreaming, ancestral knowledge, and reparations as pathways to future worlds.
Cosmologyscape Receives Major Support in Boston
The Wiháŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College has received a $93,000 grant from the Wagner Foundation to support Cosmologyscape, a public art initiative co-led by Professor Alisha B. Wormsley and Kite, distinguished artist in residence and assistant professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard. Wormsley also received an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College.After debuting in Brooklyn last fall, the project is launching its next chapter in Boston with an exhibition at Wagner in January 2026. The project transforms public dreams into visual, sculptural, and digital installations, with elements in including Dream Mosaic tiles, a communal Dream Office, and a “Boston Dreaming” webpage projection, and other installations.
Futures of Repair Opens in Brooklyn
In New York, Wormsley’s installation A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair is part of “Futures of Repair,” a collaborative project with six Black artists organized by Intelligent Mischief and curator Mia Imani Harrison. Rooted in Black feminist cosmologies and ancestral veneration, Wormsley’s three-part experimental film unfolds across three large black weavings inspired by African American quilting motifs. Each segment centers Black women artists, healers, and caretakers in Oakland, Tucson, and the Appalachian Trail in West Virginia, exploring intergenerational labor of survival and “repair” as a spiritual, embodied, and relational act. The work will be on view through March 2026.