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.