About Alyssa

I believe everyone has the right to flourish and thrive and I use art to advocate and bring beauty to the lives of the marginalized and the oppressed.

I moved over fifteen times by the age of ten after living in multiple countries and cultures. As a border stalker sojourning through liminal spaces, art became my testimony in the people and places I met along the way.

When my language felt limited, art was my way to communicate and respond to a broken world and be a part of restoring the broken areas of our lives.

As a calling I studied ecclesiastical art at Concordia University Nebraska to discover ways of serving others through this medium. I was drawn to mix media and the freedom it brings to telling stories and moving people to action. I became inspired by artists such as Ai Weiwei and Theaster Gates using art to engage with communities and of service to others, increasing my interest in interdisciplinary art.

Over the last nine years, my language in art is impacting social change in human trafficking relief and revealing the beauty and restoration that comes through hope. I am passionate about equipping artists through a personalized program for them to serve their communities well through their gifting and collaboration. I pursued a masters in Art Leadership and Cultural Management at Colorado State University to better serve others through the arts in excellence. I’ve continued my love of travel and using my multi-cultural background to provide art and trauma informed care in the United States, India, and a host of Latin American Countries primarily in Mexico City. My family and I currently reside in Colorado in the high desert of sage brush and aspen groves.

I continue in this vocation of art making and service over my life time as it grows and expands into new frontiers. I hope our journeys meet at a confluence to bring light and gold leaf to those that find themselves in darkness.

Artwork

Alyssa’s interdisciplinary conceptual artworks are used to tell a larger narrative on the broken and redemptive areas of our human experience. The work is tactical and welcoming to touch and experience it beyond sight. The work is meant to be appreciated by all whether sight through its multi sensory experience is limited or art appreciation is minimal. In her current exploration in art, Alyssa is exploring the power of mending art—mending the created pieces and bringing it new life.

I am drawn to texture and layers not just visually in my work but viscerally. Whether it is molding clay in my hands, laying gold leaf in a crack of a broken porcelain vessel, or the smell of beeswax wafting up as I pour it on soft linen, the story means the most to me conceptually in sharing it with others. I make my work touchable to whomever comes in contact with it, I use multiple areas of our senses to engage with the work hoping to make art more accessible beyond the establishments it is placed in.