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Pedagogy Study Hall: Public Drawing Session with Alx Velozo

October 24, 2025 2PM–4PM

CADVC


About Alx Velozo

Alx Velozo is a trans and disabled sculptor, educator, and performance artist raised in North Florida swamps, currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. Their installations and performances combine cultural imaginations of illness, touch, the medical industrial complex, and kinesthetic learning models.They most recently received their M.F.A. in Sculpture and Extended media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and previously received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Velozo has exhibited, taught, and facilitated in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Richmond, Miami, and Chilchota, MX. They have taught and consulted for the Baltimore Museum of Art, University of Maryland Baltimore County, George Washington University, Maryland Institute for the Arts, and Baltimore City of Accessible Arts.

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