Repair Is Possible
Repair Is Possible is a three-year arts and research initiative sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society (CAS) at Â鶹¹ÙÍø and rooted in Sibyls Shrine, the residency and collective founded by Alisha Wormsley for Black artists who M/other.
Developed in partnership with community organizations across Pittsburgh, the project brings together artists, students, scholars, organizers, and neighbors to explore repair through craft, ritual, collective study, and cultural memory.
Centering Black feminist traditions of care and stewardship, the project investigates repair as an ongoing collective practice rather than a singular act. Through workshops, reading groups, screenings, dream gatherings, and textile-based making, participants will explore how repair can be practiced across self, family, community, institutions, and history.
Over three years, the project will support community-engaged research, public programming, and artistic production, culminating in an exhibition and publication that document collective approaches to care, reparations, and cultural preservation. Through craft, storytelling, and shared learning, Repair Is Possible asks how we might build and sustain more reparative futures together.
