About Alisha

b. 1979, New York

Alisha Sickler Brunelli is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator living in upstate New York.

She explores a variety of media, touching on her interests in energy, spirituality, human consciousness, consumption, body autonomy and transcendence in the digital age. Her process is largely intuitive, ranging from realism to abstraction, and pulls from a variety of references such as body schematics, natural objects, historical works, and chance mark-making. She is interested in expanded wellness, new ecologies, meaning-making, and the quantum understanding of human potential - particularly the implications of observation as an inextricably creative act.

Brunelli’s work has been exhibited at Gallery Ondo, Seoul, Korea; the Brooklyn Art Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY; the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY; Marywood University's Mahady Gallery, PA; Keystone College, PA; and Spool Contemporary Art Space, Johnson City, NY, among others. She has also received an artist-in-residence fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. As a commercial designer, she has completed various projects, from illustration to layout and identity. She creates catalogs and exhibition typography for Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts. of Binghamton, New York.

Brunelli’s research in alternative/expanded visual arts education led to the creation of KAPOW! Art Studio, a community art school that served the Southern Tier Region of Upstate, NY, from 2014 to 2021. In 2022, she was awarded a teaching artist grant through NYSCA/NY Arts in Education Roundtable, Empire Creates. She recently was a semi-finalist in the 2023 NYSCA Artist Fellowship in the Printmaking/Drawing/BookArts category.

Brunelli teaches drawing, design, and studio practice in the Art & Design department at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (2015 - present).

• MS Ed. | Focus on developmental wellness in visual arts education, Elmira College

• BFA | Printmaking, Binghamton University

• NYS Teaching Certification |. Visual Arts K-12

For fun, Alisha likes to make kimchi and read about past life regression. She practices Transcendental Meditation every day.

Researchers, creators, and authors that inspire and inform me - in no particular order/ genre /time period (list is evolving)…

Carl Jung (analytical psychology), Joseph Chilton Pearce (human development), David R. Hawkins, M.D., PhD. (human consciousness), Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk, activist), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Betty Edwards (neuroscience in drawing), Abraham Maslow (hierarchy of needs), John Archibald Wheeler (quantum physics), Arnold Mindell (transpersonal psychcology), Jacob Liberman (sight) , Paul Levy (quantum psychology), John Sarno (mind-body medicine), Rumi (Sufi mystic/poet), Josef Albers (design), Anni Albers (design), Kiki Smith (artist - human/nature), Louise Bougeois (artist - female identity), Wangechi Mutu (artist - gender, sexuality, identity), Joseph Beuys (artist/teacher - humanism/sociology), James Hollis, Ph D. (Jungian psychology), Rupert Sheldrake (morphic resonance), Masaru Emoto (water & human consciousness), John Dewey (philosophy, psychology, education reform), . . .

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