Neighborhood: 40 West Arts District

The Space I Am In
A solo exhibition featuring Alisha B. Wormsley

February 11 – March 30, 2021

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

Philip J. Steele Gallery

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD) presents The Space I am In by distinguished Pittsburg-based artist Alisha B. Wormsley in the Philip J. Steele Gallery.

Wormsley’s solo exhibition explores collective memory and the synchronicity of time through the stories of women of color, and more specifically, Black Women in America.

Her work spans public art, social practice, performance, installation, film, photography, and publication. For over a decade, Wormsley has been building the Children of NAN Archive, which she uses to create exhibitions that serve as spaces of critical reflection on the past, present, and future of community. Wormsley’s primary focus is to uplift and celebrate the people and places she engages with as she develops her Children of NAN Archive.

Additionally, Wormsley will give a virtual artist talk as part of the RMCAD Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program World Building series. Event link contains exhibition accessibility updates.

EXHIBITION ACCESS

The Space I Am In
A solo exhibition featuring Alisha B. Wormsley

February 11 – March 30, 2021

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

Philip J. Steele Gallery

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD) presents The Space I am In by distinguished Pittsburg-based artist Alisha B. Wormsley in the Philip J. Steele Gallery.

Wormsley’s solo exhibition explores collective memory and the synchronicity of time through the stories of women of color, and more specifically, Black Women in America.

Her work spans public art, social practice, performance, installation, film, photography, and publication. For over a decade, Wormsley has been building the Children of NAN Archive, which she uses to create exhibitions that serve as spaces of critical reflection on the past, present, and future of community. Wormsley’s primary focus is to uplift and celebrate the people and places she engages with as she develops her Children of NAN Archive.

Additionally, Wormsley will give a virtual artist talk as part of the RMCAD Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program World Building series. Event link contains exhibition accessibility updates.

EXHIBITION ACCESS

March 5 – 27

First Friday Opening Reception: March 5 (4 – 9 pm)

40 West Gallery

Room 3

One of four exhibitions on view at 40 West Gallery during the Month of Photography festival, Desensitization features works by Denver-based artist Leah Diament.

From the Artist:

“Desensitization” visually represents the feeling of being overwhelmed by society’s big issues. The topic is approached by increasing the same image more and more frequently. The progression of multiples connects you with the stages of being desensitized through an overwhelming amount of material.

Sloppy printing and vivid colors are used to signify the inattention that even the most important subjects
are given just because of their sheer mass. This series pushes the viewer to discover the patterns that
arise during the course of desensitization, review and become aware of both the harm and benefits of
being overloaded with information.

March 5 – 27

First Friday Opening Reception: March 5 (4 – 9 pm)

40 West Gallery

Room 1

One of four exhibitions on view at 40 West Gallery during the Month of Photography festival, Relinquish: A Photographic Conversation Between Mother and Daughter features works by Boulder-based artist Casie Zalud.

From the Artist:

The Relinquish project is a series of diptychs including one photograph taken by my six-year-old daughter Linnéa, and one photograph taken by myself. Linnéa’s photos are interactions with the world around her, created from a place of emotion, curiosity, and pride. By consciously following her example, I have worked to rediscover my own interpretations of these elements in my work.

March 5 – 27

First Friday Opening Reception: March 5 (4 – 9 pm)

40 West Gallery

40 West Gallery is proud to participate in the Month of Photography Denver festival again in 2021! This exhibition features a selection of photographs by 40 West Member artists.

This exhibit is in the Main Gallery, and is one of four shows on view at 40 West Gallery during the festival.

March 5 – 27

First Friday Opening Reception: March 5 (4 – 9 pm)

40 West Gallery

Room 2

One of four exhibitions on view at 40 West Gallery during the Month of Photography festival, Off My Balcony presents the work of Denver-based photographer Barb Pullin.

From the Artist:

The year was 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. I worked from home for six weeks, my workspace near my balcony over-looking a Historic Park and the front range. As a photographer, I love the ever-changing light creating shadows and textures mixing with the Colorado sky. Every day I was drawn to the balcony to photograph this ever-changing scene.

Then, the wildfires happened and although it was devastating for so many, they created awe-inspiring sunsets, cloud formations and incredible light. As this body of work started to grow I realized this important time in my life needed to be documented so I kept shooting through the end of 2020.

The main event of this exhibit is a staging of the view off the balcony complete with my table and chair. A mosaic of over 60 photographs fill one wall along with a select handful of my favorite moments enlarged and framed.

March 5 – 21

EDGE Gallery

Lakewood

SEEN: Perspectives Through Photography is a community show for artists to express themselves through the wonders of light, observation, and composition. The mission of EDGE Gallery is dedicated to contemporary art which falls outside the norm including traditional and experimental photographic techniques.

Please visit the gallery website and social media for last-minute changes and accommodations due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Virtual Artist Talk with Alisha B. Wormsley

Tuesday, March 16

4:30 – 6 pm MST

Zoom

Distinguished Pittsburg-based artist Alisha B. Wormsley presents a free virtual Artist Talk as part of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design’s Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer (VASD) Program’s World Building series. The World Building series explores the ways artists and designers are constructing fully-formed, immersive universes that re-contextualize our past, re-orient our present, and project new, future realities.

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, more specifically Black Women in America. In addition to her artist talk, a solo exhibition of Wormsley’s work titled The Space I Am In is presented at RMCAD’s Philip J. Steel Gallery from February 11 – March 30, 2021.