Portfolio


velazquezalyssa@gmail.com
Pittsburgh, PA 

Publications 


2024
“Tated for Life,” Scraps, March 6, 2024.
www.scrapsmag.com/issue/tated-for-life

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.
https://medium.com/the-establishment/pink-as-f-ck-the-colorful-history-of-a-sex-symbol-f72426f87ea4

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. 
https://materialreligions.blogspot.com/2017/12/dressing-rooms-spaces-of-magical-reality.html

2016

“Dressed Up in Paper: What Will I Be?,” Fashion Studies Journal, December 2016.
https://www.fashionstudiesjournal.org/longform/2016/12/11/dressed-up-in-paper-what-will-i-be-wkehn

“35 Millimeters of Love and Faith,” Votive Offering Project, November 2016.
https://thevotivesproject.org/2016/12/01/velazquez/

2015

“The Adventures of Ringo and Sobek,” University of Penn Museum blog, June 2014 - August 2015. 
https://www.penn.museum/blog/author/avelazquez/  

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.
https://www.amazon.com/Men-Manolos-Relationships-Hopeless-Romantic-ebook/dp/B00GNRURI4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P9078R9KRMVI&keywords=men+and+manolos+hopeless+romantic&qid=1649706132&sprefix=men+and+manolos+hopeless+romantic%2Caps%2C59&sr=8-1

Exhibitions


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   

Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 2022 Fall Freshworks Artist, October 7 & 8, 2022. 

City Books, Writers-in-Residence, February 1-June 30, 2022.