Portfolio
velazquezalyssa@gmail.com
Pittsburgh, PA
Publications
2024
“In the Studio with Jeremy R. Brooks,” Burnaway, July 18, 2024.
water fun, S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx, edited by Cassendre Xavier and Tom Daubert.
vacuum tracks, The Tower Vol. 3: Family, edited by Róisín Byrne & James Hudson.
“Tated for Life,” Scraps Literary Journal, March 6, 2024.
2022
Dr. James Stewart, Rachel Delpia, Sharif Bey, and Alyssa Velazquez, Sharif Bey: Excavations (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art), 2022.
2019
Dr. Will South, Steve Naifeh, and Alyssa Velazquez, Van Gogh and His Inspirations (South Carolina: Columbia Museum of Art), 2019.
“Cheese Dreams” in Issue Four: Dreams, GLRSQUASH, Winter 2019.
2018
“Pink as FXck: The History of a Colorful Sex Symbol,” The Establishment, October 2018.
Anne Hilker and Alyssa Velazquez co-authored essay, “The Vietnam Memorial” in Ex Voto: Agents of Faith (New Haven: Yale University Press), 2018.
2017
“Dressing Rooms: Spaces of Magical Reality,” Material Religions: Exploring the Material Basis of Religious Traditions, December 2017.
2016
“Dressed Up in Paper: What Will I Be?,” Fashion Studies Journal, December 2016.
“35 Millimeters of Love and Faith,” Votive Offering Project, November 2016.
2015
“The Adventures of Ringo and Sobek,” University of Penn Museum blog, June 2014 - August 2015.
2014
“Tupperware: An Open Container During a Decade of Containment,” Women’s History Magazine, March 2014.
2013
Men and Manolos: Love and Relationships in the Heels of a Hopeless Romantic, 2013.
Exhibitions
August 2025 - January 2026
after school
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
October 2024 - January 2025
smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow them back
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
April 2024 - September 2024
Marie Watt
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
March 2024 - August 2024
Everlasting Plastics
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
November 2023 - January 2025
Pittsburgh Satellite Reef
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
October 2021 - March 2022
Sharif Bey: Excavations
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
July 2021
Extraordinary Ordinary Things
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
November 2020 - July 2022
Locally Sourced
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
October 2019 - January 2020
Van Gogh and His Inspirations
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
October 2018
Ex Voto: Agents of Faith
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NYC
Design
2019
“The World is Calling,” Digital Gallery Interactive, Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, SC)
https://digitalmedia45.wixsite.com/worldiscalling
2012
Fall 2012 Season Fellow, Arden Theater Company (Phildelphia, PA)
Stop Kiss, Phildelphia Fringe Festival (Phildelphia, PA)
Public Programming
2022-
Story Sundays at Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA)
2021
“In Conversations” with artists, makers, designers, scholars, and activists at Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA)
2019
“Dinner and a Movie” with Pulp Fiction at Nickelodeon Theater (Columbia, SC) 25th Anniversary with a special screening, complete with “Big Kahuna” burgers and “Five Dollar” milkshakes.
Content Contributor
2020
Columnist, “One Day a Week” for GoColumbia (Columbia, SC), 2018-2020
Conferences/Lectures
2019
“Getting to Know Van Gogh: The Secret Lives of Great Artists,” Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC.
https://youtu.be/dxyrDG1-960
2017
“Bury Your Gays: Shooting Down Same-Sex Relationships on Television and Film” for Midwest Modern Language Association Conference: “Identifying Areas of Resistance - Women in Literature,” Cincinnati, OH.
Residencies
Bishcoff Inn Micro-Residency, August 2024.
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 2022 Fall Freshworks Artist, October 7 & 8, 2022.
City Books, Writers-in-Residence, February 1-June 30, 2022.