Amber Doe (Tucson, AZ) is a research based, intersectional artist working in textile, sculpture, installation, sound, photography and video. Doe creates generative, immersive works with urgency based on American state sanctioned violence. Doe creates work with a historical and contemporary understanding of American and post-colonial western societies’ desire to control and subdue black and brown bodies along with a vivid material portrait of ancestral, diasporic and interspecies families.
Doe’s work has been exhibited at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX; Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; the Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA; The LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York City, NY; Snakebite Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Awards include 2023/2025 Night Bloom Grant via MOCA Tucson/Andy Warhol Foundation; 2024 Artist Opportunity Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts; 2022/2023 Projecting All Voices Fellowship through Arizona State University and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
In 2024/2025, Doe was awarded the visiting artist residency with Sibyls Shrine in partnership with Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. In 2021, Doe was an Abbey Awards Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome and has been awarded residencies at Arteles in Haukijärvi, Finland, Can Serrat in Barcelona, Spain and La Ira de Dios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Bekezela Mguni (Pittsburgh, PA) is a queer Trinidadian artist, librarian, and cultural organizer. She has over 20 years of community organizing experience, working with LGBTQIA+ communities, youth, women, and people of the global majority. She is a co-founder of New Voices for Reproductive Justice and was trained as a community doula by the Birth Circle. She served as a Client Services Associate at the Midwife Center, which provides reproductive wellness and pregnancy care. During her time at TMC, she organized and updated the library, launched the first celebration of Black Breastfeeding Week in Pittsburgh in August of 2014, and co-founded the Pittsburgh Black Breastfeeding Circle. Bekezela is a member of the Ujamaa Collective and the Black Socialist Formation. She is the Artistic Director at Dreams of Hope, which affirms and uplifts the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth through the arts. She is the founder of The Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project, a community initiative cultivating libraries as sites of possibility and freedom.
Alisha B Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose practice envisions the expansion of time and space and reMatriation. Her work transforms public space and collective imagination through projects rooted in liberated futures, ritual, and community care.
Wormsley’s recent projects include Cosmologyscape, a 2023 Creative Time commission with collaborator Suzanne Kite, and major public art commissions such as the International Arrivals Corridor at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Her ongoing initiative There Are Black People in the Future—which generates dialogue around displacement and gentrification through exhibitions and community mini-grants—has been presented internationally, from the Oakland Museum of California to London’s Southbank Centre and San Francisco International Airport. She is the founder of Sibyls Shrine, a residency supporting Black artists who m/other, and is currently developing her film Children of NAN: A Survival Guide. The film presents tutorials and survival strategies for future Black femmes while exploring their relationship to ritual, craft, and the natural world. Wormsley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman/NYFA Award, and Assistant Professor of Art in Social Practice at Carnegie Mellon University.
