A free panel conversation with artists Alisha B. Wormsley and Lenka Clayton.
Moderated by Bunker Projects Board Member Tara Fay Coleman.
Where: Alphabet City Bookstore, 40 W North Ave & Livestreamed
When: 3:00 - 4:45 PM on Sunday, August 28th.
Moderated by Bunker Projects Board Member Tara Fay Coleman.
Where: Alphabet City Bookstore, 40 W North Ave & Livestreamed
When: 3:00 - 4:45 PM on Sunday, August 28th.
Art is often characterized as a “labor of love” — working artists are frequently challenged with professional precarity yet expected to commit entirely to their craft. Grants, residencies, galleries and museums support such cultural workers, but often overlook the unique needs of and demands faced by one important group: parent artists. Join us on August 28th for Home/Making: Practice and Parenthood, a panel with Alisha B. Wormsley and Lenka Clayton, two Pittsburgh-based mothers and working artists who have both created residencies that address the unique needs of parent artists in different ways. Moderated by Bunker Projects’ board member Tara Fay Coleman, an artist and mother herself, Wormsley and Clayton will speak to their experiences as artists and mothers, and discuss how they navigate these roles in their studios, homes, and the residency programs they run. Books by each artist will be available for purchase.
The panel will be followed by a 15 minute Q&A with the audience, and book signing. It will also be live-streamed, tickets available below.
The panel will be followed by a 15 minute Q&A with the audience, and book signing. It will also be live-streamed, tickets available below.
This event is brought to you by Bunker Projects’ Bunker Review in partnership with City of Asylum. This event is a fundraiser for the Bunker Review; if you’re attending this event, please consider donating to the Bunker Review — your support will ensure that we can keep creating programming like this, as well as publishing innovative, critical writing. More info about donating can be found at the bottom of this page.
About the speakers:
Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Wormsley’s work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the black womxn lens. Alisha is a mother, and founder of Sibyls Shrine, an arts collective and residency program for Black womxn, trans women, and femmes who are m/others and identify as artists, creatives and activists. Most recent exhibitions include; the Oakland Museum, VCUArts Qatar, Southbank Arts Centre, Times Square Arts and the Mattress Factory Museum. Wormsley’s newest project, D.R.E.A.M. A Way to Afram, with collaborator Li Harris, was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Clayton is also a mother, and the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents. There are currently over 1,000 artists-in-residence in 62 countries. In 2022, An Artist Residency in Motherhood celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
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Tara Fay is an independent curator, producer, and conceptual artist from Buffalo, NY. Her work consists of a multidisciplinary praxis that is an exploration of identity, motherhood, Black womanhood, and taking up space. Through her practice, she mines her own lived experiences for subject matter, with a goal to intertwine her life and her work. She serves as a board member, at Bunker Projects, and is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She has curated exhibitions for various institutions, which include Phosphor Project Space, Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and Brewhouse Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
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Board of DirectorsJessica Rommelt, Founder
Anna Nelson Tara Fay Coleman Nina Friedman Harrison K. Smith Anna Mirzayan |
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