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Alyssa Cuffie Onuoha
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Creative Projects 

Curatorial Projects

  • Marian Jackson Cheek Center’s Freedom School Closing Exhibition, August 2025

  • Distro Darty "In the Round" Exhibition highlighting Womanifesto Issue 5, November 2024

  • Black History Month Auction and Exhibition in Partnership with Cisco Systems and Durham Art Guild, February 2024

  • Black History Month Artist Marketplace in Partnership with Cisco Systems, February 2024

  • Glow Fitness Raleigh First Friday Artists Market, January–April 2023

  • VAE Raleigh – Creating a Home Not an Empire Exhibition, February 2022

Exhibitions
(participation as artist)

  • Pop Box Gallery Prototype Exhibition, April 2022

  • Durham Art Walk, June 2022

  • VAE Raleigh Annual Auction, 2022

  • Houston Museum of Fine Art, January 2021

  • Chicago Cultural Center, June 2021

  • Pancakes and Booze Art Show, February 2020

  • The Martin - LOCUS Gallery Show, March 2020

  • Co-Prosperity Gallery, October 2019

  • Evanston Planned Parenthood Benefit, December 2019

  • Brooklyn Art Library, December 2019

  • Milwaukee Art Museum, June 2016

  • Brown Deer High School Alumni Show, 2016

Grants & Fellowships

  • 2025 Grantee: Snapdragon Fund Research & Development Grant

  • 2024 Grantee: Snapdragon Fund Project Grant

  • 2023 Grantee: VAE Raleigh Snapdragon Fund Project Grant

  • 2021 Fellow: VAE Raleigh Collaborative Curatorial Fellowship, 2021

Press and Features

  • Curated and Moderated Panel at Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference titled "Multiplicity as a Method: On Navigating Being a Multipassionate Creative", November 2025

  • Interview with Shoutout North Carolina, February 2025

  • Panelist on Artists in AI Panel at Haiti Heritage Center, October 2024

  • Featured in Space for Black Hair Zine, May 2022

  • Mentioned in Threadless, September 2021

  • "I am so easy to love zine" featured in Lion’s Tooth Bookstore Subscription Box, 2021

  • Products featured in Travel Jerne Subscription Box, 2021

  • Interview in Rogers Edge Reporter, 2021

  • Interview with Kimani Rose Creations, 2017

Zines

  • Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Justice Center "What does freedom mean to us?" zine, August 2025

  • Womanifesto Magazine Issue 5, September 2024

  • Womanifesto Magazine Issue 4, March 2021

  • The Chameleon, digital non‑fungible token (NFT) zine, August 2021

  • Bronzeville Center for The Arts history zine, 2021

  • I am not a martyr zine, 2020

  • Womanifesto Magazine Issue 3, November 2020

  • I am so easy to love zine, May 2020

  • Womanifesto Magazine Issue 2, May 2020

  • Womanifesto Magazine Issue 1, March 2020

Volunteer Work

  • Set and Costume Design Volunteer for Southern High School production of She Kills Monsters, Fall 2024

  • Set Design Volunteer for Southern High School production of Sister Act, Spring 2024

  • Set Design Volunteer for Southern High School production of Tracks, Fall 2023

  • Dramaturge and Assistant Director for Southern High School production of The Color Purple, Spring 2023

  • Advisory Board Member for VAE Curatorial Fellowship, November 2022–April 2023

  • Juror for North Carolina (NC) Arts Council Grant, October 2022

  • Business Mentor for SheRoars Women’s Entrepreneurship Organization, 2022-2024

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