alisha sickler brunelli
American, b. 1979
Alisha Sickler Brunelli is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator living in Binghamton, New York.
As a multidisciplinary artist, 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, scientific imagery, historical works, and chance mark making. She is interested in meaning making, transpersonal experiences, and the significance of quantum principles in our understanding of human potential.
In her teaching practice she explores visual literacy, semiotics, and wellness modalities that use right brain function to access intuitive connection to the deeper self, resulting in life-affirming decision making, decreased anxiety, and higher states of consciousness. Ultimately leading the individual toward self knowledge and self actualization (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs), as well as Individuation (Jungian).
(Rudolph Steiner, Betty Edwards, Carol Dweck, David Hawkins, Carl Jung)
She received her masters of science in education from Elmira College, and bachelors of fine art degree in printmaking from Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
She has been teaching in upstate New York for 20+ years in a variety of settings, including private school, public K-12, and higher education.
She was the founder/creative director of KAPOW! Art Studio & School (2014-2021), an art education center that focuses on progressive practices in art education, including growth mindset and individualized curriculum. She is a professor of art & design at Binghamton University (January 2015-present).
She practices Transcendental Meditation every day (www.tm.org) and enjoys both the spiritual and political significance of mindful consumption.
For fun she likes to collect taxidermy, make kimchi, and study past life regression.