Alyssa Velazquez

Alyssa Velazquez is a cultural historian, playwright, and writer. Her work has been featured in TOWER, Scraps, The Establishment, AutoStraddle, GRLSQUASH, The Fashion Studies Journal, Women’s History Magazine, and Juggad: A Material Religions Project. She organized the Pittsburgh Satellite Reef and Locally Sourced, highlighting new work by the Pittsburgh region’s most talented present-day makers of functional goods and furnishings at Carnegie Museum of Art. Other projects include Marie Watt: Land Stiches Water Sky, Everlasting Plastics, Extraordinary Ordinary Things and Sharif Bey: Excavations.