Portrait of Alisha B Wormsley as part of Remnants of An Advanced Technology. Presented by CUE Art Foundation, 2022. Photo by David Michael Cortes.
Tarot Card Reading + Exhibition Walkthrough: Remnants of an Advanced Technology
With Alisha B Wormsley
Saturday, October 15th
2:00 – 4:00pm
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Join us in the gallery on Saturday, October 15th from 2–4 pm for a tarot reading and exhibition walkthrough with Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha B Wormsley as part of her first solo exhibition in New York City, Remnants of An Advanced Technology.
Wormsley will offer five-minute tarot card readings to guests on a first come, first served basis. Tarot is an area of interest and practice for the artist, and is present in the futurist world buildings of her works. Many of the quilts presented as part of the exhibition, for example, align with the archetypes of tarot: The Oracle, The Sorcerer, The High Priestess, The Time Traveler, The Sun, The Star, Strength, Justice, and more.
Following the tarot readings, Wormsley will take guests on a walkthrough to learn more about the exhibition and her ongoing Children of NAN archive.
This event is free and open to all. RSVPs are encouraged but not required. RSVP below.
About the Artist
Alisha B Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the lens of Black womxn, challenging contemporary views of modern American life through whichever medium she feels is the best form of expression. This includes actions such as creating an object, a sculpture, a billboard, a performance, or a film. Wormsley thrives in collaboration.
Over the last few years, Wormsley has designed public art initiatives including Streaming Space, a 24-foot pyramid with video and sound installed in downtown Pittsburgh, as well as several park designs and a newly commissioned public artwork at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Wormsley’s ongoing public program, There Are Black People In the Future, gives mini-grants to open up discourse around displacement and gentrification. In 2020, she launched Sibyls Shrine, an arts residency for Black creative mothers that has received support from the Heinz Endowments. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with longtime collaborator Li Harris to engage in site-specific fieldwork in international and national topographical locations, with the goal of making a film that establishes a series of portals to an inner space reality for Black exponential potential of Being. Wormsley was recently selected with collaborator Kite for Creative Time’s 2023 commissioned open call. Integrating media, public space, and public interaction, they will design invitations for rest and reimagination rooted in practices of Afro-Futurism and Indigenous Protocol.
Wormsley’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Oakland Museum, VCUArts Qatar, Speed Museum, Artpace, Times Square Arts, Mattress Factory Contemporary Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. She has received fellowships from Monument Lab and the Goethe Institute, as well as the Sundance Interdisciplinary Grant and the Carol Brown Achievement Award, among others. Wormsley holds an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College, and is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Health and Safety Protocols
We ask that guests wear masks or face coverings whenever possible. If you think you have a fever, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days, or have had close contact with anyone who is confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19, please stay home.
Access Notes
CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single-stall bathroom in the gallery. The closest wheelchair-accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square. If you have additional access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you.