alyh ab✴︎ve
education ✴︎
In Progress
2021 - 2025
2023
2015 - 2020
2013 - 2015
2009 - 2013
Native to West Palm Beach, FL and currently creating out of Philadelphia, PA, their work is expressed through music, writing, production, design, film, archive, theory, philosophy, and creative liberation strategy. Since 2015, ALYH ABOVE’s practice has used art, creative research, worldbuilding and the study of Life as Art to honor and proliferate black fulfillment.
At current, they are developing their worldbuilding studio, here + human, which equips artists and cultural workers to create the world(s) we need next. Through here + human’s non-linear educational, artistic, and archival offerings, ALYH intends to help seed liberative change. They are also crafting existentia. — the name of both a speculative world and an art-journal made up of black fulfillment ephemera.
WHY FULFILLMENT?
Fulfillment has always been a form of black resistance. We have always decided that we were going to thrive anyway, whether that meant subverting dehumanizing systems to serve us, or creating our own. We have used this form of resistance to create worlds within this world — ones that can support and preserve the fullness of our humanity.
Grassroots PhD
Grassroots M.A., The Human Experience as Creative Process
Worldbuilding School: Cohort 01, Ari Felix
Grassroots B.A., Existential Artistry
Florida A&M University, Jazz Studies/Psychology
Tallahassee, FL
A.W. Dreyfoos School of Arts, Vocal Arts
West Palm Beach, FL
current iterations ✴︎
dead-tape: in process
here + human studio
here and human: the muse-letter
Substack
elemental table of fulfillment
2019
2021
2023
2023
2023
2021
2023
2017
2017
2014 - 2021
2022
decade of demos
The ALYH ARCHIVES
tidbits 01
Field Notes
The Nectar Center for Existential Artistry
A.L.Y.H. EP
Redefining Art: An Existential Artistry Workshop
The Creative Coaching Workshop
Influence Academy for Creatives
The Idea Angel
For Words’ Sake
2025
2024 - Present
2025
2023
2024
2024
2023
2024
2024
2021
2023 - 2024
2024
2023
2014
2015
2013 - 2015
The Rest by Assata’s House, Videographer
Musiqology Media Group, Producer
MMG: Velvet by Bridge, Art Director + Producer + Vocalist + Songwriter + Cover Art Photographer
MMG: Amiri’s Dream
MMG: We Been Fly
MMG: Little Itty Bitty Jazz Jawns, Teaching Artist + Videographer + Voiceover Artist
Musiqology Media Group: Rebrand, Identity + Web Designer
WAYVCAST Trailers 001 - 010
WAYVCAST: can you feel the water? Film, Co-Director + Editor
FAVELO WORLDWIDE, Voiceover
Center for Creative Education/The Foundations School, Teaching Artist
Oliver J. Stewart, If You See This You’re Beautiful, Editor + Designer
The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, Vocalist + Designer
Seabreeze Jazz Festival, Lead and Supporting Vocalist
Soul Xone, Lead + Supporting Vocalist
FAMU Jazz Band + FAMU Concert Choir, Lead + Supporting Vocalist
substack ✴︎
patreon ✴︎
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