Portfolio

^{velazquezalyssa@gmail.com}
^{Pittsburgh, PA}

Publications

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^{“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.}

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^{Dr. James Stewart, Rachel Delpia, Sharif Bey, and Alyssa Velazquez, Sharif Bey: Excavations (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art), 2022.}

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^{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.}

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^{“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.}
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^{“Dressing Rooms: Spaces of Magical Reality,” Material Religions: Exploring the Material Basis of Religious Traditions, December 2017.}

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^{“Dressed Up in Paper: What Will I Be?,” Fashion Studies Journal, December 2016.}

^{“35 Millimeters of Love and Faith,” Votive Offering Project, November 2016.}

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^{“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

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^{“The World is Calling,” Digital Gallery Interactive, Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, SC)}
^{https://digitalmedia45.wixsite.com/worldiscalling}

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^{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)}

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^{“In Conversations” with artists, makers, designers, scholars, and activists at Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA)}

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^{“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

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^{Columnist, “One Day a Week” for GoColumbia (Columbia, SC), 2018-2020}
Conferences/Lectures

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^{“Getting to Know Van Gogh: The Secret Lives of Great Artists,” Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC.}
^{https://youtu.be/dxyrDG1-960}

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^{“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.}