Velour's cut paper work was part of the group show "Coney Island Babies, Visual Artists from the Brooklyn Drag Scene" at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division that opened in Manhattan in November 2012. A show entitled “What's Your Drag” was on display at Be Gallery NYC in spring 2014 (in connection with BeFluent, the English school where she taught), and another solo show entitled "Nightrooms", was held at the Black Box Gallery (located in Bizarre Bushwick) in Brooklyn in March 2016. Velour's visual art has been the subject of two solo gallery shows. The work was called "a smart, beautiful and artful take on a significant and difficult historical event" by Highlow Comics. Velour also created a comic entitled Stonewall, which attempted to tell the story of the Stonewall riots using real and fictional characters. Velour's work was also published in The Nib, InkBRICK, Comics Workbook Magazine, QU33R, Cicada Magazine and others, under the names Sasha Velour and Sasha Steinberg. She created comics and zines that she self-published and sold at conventions. Velour moved to New York with her partner John Jacob Lee (known professionally as Johnny Velour) in 2013. Career Early work in illustration and graphic design Prior to pursuing drag as a full-time career, Velour worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, an English language tutor, and as head of production for the children's book publisher, Toon Books. She received an MFA in cartooning in 2013 from the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. In 2010, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Moscow and completed a project that aimed to understand the role of different art forms in contemporary Russian society. Velour obtained a BA from the Independent Program (with a focus on Modern Literatures) from Vassar College in 2009. Petersburg, Russia, and interned at the Staatsoper (State Opera) in Berlin, Germany. After high school, she spent a year abroad with family and worked as a part-time security guard at the Russian State Hermitage Museum in St. ![]() ![]() Velour graduated from University Laboratory High School in Champaign-Urbana in 2004. Her grandmother emigrated from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic via Manchuria. Velour is of Russian Jewish descent on her father's side, and identifies with her father's faith. ![]() Velour is the only child of Mark Steinberg, a scholar of Russian history and professor in the Department of History at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jane Hedges, who served as editor at Yale University Press and managing editor of the Slavic Review. Early life and education īorn in Berkeley, California, Velour was raised in New Haven, Connecticut until the age of nine when her family moved to Urbana, Illinois. ![]() Velour is known for winning the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, her drag revue NightGowns, and her one-queen theatrical work, Smoke & Mirrors. Alexander " Sasha" Hedges Steinberg (born June 25, 1987), known professionally as Sasha Velour, is an American drag queen, artist, actor, and stage and television producer, based in Brooklyn, New York.
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