Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Alisha B. Wormsley Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Alisha B. Wormsley is among the recipients of the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships. The award is widely considered one of the most prestigious honors for visual artists and provides generous funding to allow artists to undertake ambitious projects. Fellowships are awarded in other fields including the humanities, mathematics, the sciences, computer science, engineering and other areas of the arts. Across her work in many mediums - including print, film, digital media, sculpture, sound, social practice and cultural production - Wormsley investigates collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color. Working with communities around the world, she fosters artistic engagement and celebrates identities. Wormsley received the Guggenheim Fellowship for her collaborative project with Li Harris "D.R.E.A.M = A Way to AFRAM," a project about imagineering various technologies and applied sciences to continue the ancestral practice of creating safe places for Black people to exist abundantly on this planet and beyond. The project has a film in progress that will screen at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center from April 14 through Aug.