SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 - Present: Marketing Coordinator; WhitbeckBeglis, Leesburg, VA
2025: Legal Administrator and Visual Coordinator; WhitbeckBeglis, Leesburg, VA
2024: Creative Design Intern; Freddie Mac, McLean, VA
2023 - 2024: Marketing Intern; Hokie Wellness, Blacksburg, VA
2022 - 2023: Art Teacher; Kidcreate Studio, Ashburn, VA
2021: Private Art Teacher; Ashburn, VA
2020: Graphic Designer; Community over Corona, Remote
EXHIBITIONS
2025: Solo Exhibition, “Strangers in Dialogue”, Patrick and Henry Community College, Martinsville, VA
2024: Group Exhibition, “3 A.M.”, School of Visual Arts, Blacksburg, VA
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
2020-2021: Voted Best Artist in Ashburn; Ashburn, VA
2021: Wadsworth, Chris, “Portrait of an Artist”; Ashburn Magazine.
https://www.ashburnmagazine.com/amazingkids/talented-audrey-veloce-is-tops-in- ashburn/
2021: Ashby Ponds Scholar
EDUCATION
2024 B.F.A. Studio Arts major, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
COMPLETED COURSES AT VIRGINIA TECH
2022: ART 1504 - Contemporary Art and Practice
Methods and practices fundamental to the making of contemporary visual art. Non-discipline-specific investigation of self-expression, meaning, and content through iterative, practice-based exercises. Development of personal artistic practice through the lens of contemporary art and its historical precedents. Exploration of various processes such as representation, abstraction, assemblage, performance, installation, mark making, digital, and time-based, or interactive experiences as means to self-expression and interpretation of meaning. Examination of multiple world views and global challenges addressed in contemporary art.
2022: ART 2514 - Drawing Concepts
Exploration of drawing practices that reflect expansions in the discipline through examination of the work of contemporary artists and discussion of recent historical precedents. Examination of multiple viewpoints through readings and discussion investigating notions of identity, culture, and social reality. Development of personalized visual language and content through iterative drawing processes. Application of formal analysis and interpretive strategies through critique. Includes traditional and experimental techniques; representational, abstract, and nonobjective approaches to drawing.
2023: ART 4514 - Laser Cutting & Engraving
This course provides a thorough understanding of the functionality and capabilities of Universal Laser System machines. Using multiple cutting and engraving techniques and a variety of media, students will produce independently proposed projects throughout the semester. Projects will be critically interpreted in the contexts of technique, individualized goals, and contemporary culture.
Audrey Veloce is based in Northern Virginia, where she was born and raised. Her most recent work consists of a series of genre-bending paintings that focus on figures isolated from her own portfolio of street and candid subject photography. In all her work, Audrey gravitates towards capturing the likeness of a figure or concept in a way that represents how they are stored in her memory, straying from accuracy and opting for loose translation. She is honored to have been voted Ashburn Magazine’s Best Artist in Ashburn in 2020 and 2021 for her prior work in realistic portraiture, and received the honor of being the Phi Kappa Phi medallion winner in 2024 for the college of Arts, Architecture & Design from Virginia Tech.