alyh ab✴︎ve




portrait ✴︎
2025ALYH ABOVE (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and archivist constructing artistic research projects that study, express, and reflect on The Human Experience as Creative Process.

Native to West Palm Beach, FL and currently creating out of Philadelphia, PA, their work is expressed through various forms of sonic, aesthetic, and energetic collage, often including music, writing, production, design, film, archive, theory, philosophy, and creative liberation strategy.

At current, they are developing their worldbuilding studio, here + human, which aims to equip artists and cultural workers to create the world(s) we need next through non-linear experimental offerings. here + human’s projects include the ‘Black Fulfillment Art-chives’, ‘human-ifesto’, and substack series ‘prompts for the modern human’.

They are also crafting existentia. — an interdisciplinary art-journal exploring The Human Experience as Creative Process through spells and stories from the inner world of ALYH ABOVE. The project features both original and found works, collaged into themed, episodic Creative Research Projects, available to stream via the official project website and bandcamp.


recent roles ✴︎
2025 - current


2023 - 2024



2023


2022 - current

2015 - current
Founder, here + human worldbuilding studio

Teaching Artist, Center For Creative Education/The Foundations School; West Palm Beach, FL

Vocal Arranger + Choir Director, The Givers Revival; Miami, FL

Creative Director, Musiqology Media Group

Owner + Artist, ALYH ABOVE Creative Studio


education ✴︎
2023 - 2025


2023


2015 - 2020

2013 - 2015



2009 - 2013
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



selected works + experiences ✴︎

2025

2025

2024

2023

2023

2023


2023

2022

2021

2021

2019

2017
2017

existentia.

elemental table of fulfillment

impart + parcel: mini-mixes

tidbits 01

The Nectar Center for Existential Artistry

Redefining Art: An Existential Artistry Workshop

Field Notes

For Words’ Sake
The ALYH ARCHIVES

A.L.Y.H. EP

decade of demos

The Creative Coaching Workshop

Influence Academy for Creatives

selected collaborations ✴︎
2025


2025



2024


2024

2024

2024



2023

2023


2021

2024


2023


2014


2015 - 2016


2015

2013 - 2015
Assata’s House: Graphic Designer, Videographer

VELVET by Bridge, Creative Director, Producer, Vocalist, Songwriter, Cover Art Photographer

WAYVCAST: can you feel the water? Film, Co-Director + Editor

WAYVCAST Trailers 001 - 010, Editor

Musiqology Media Group: We Been Fly

Musiqology Media Group: Little Itty Bitty Jazz Jawns, Teaching Artist, Videographer, Voiceover Artist

Musiqology Media Group: Amiri’s Dream

Musiqology Media Group: Rebrand, Identity + Web Designer

FAVELO WORLDWIDE, Voiceover

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

Sigma Alpha Iota Int’l Music Fraternity: Theta Nu: Chapter Song Leader, Editor

Soul Xone, Lead + Supporting Vocalist

FAMU Jazz Band + FAMU Concert Choir, Lead + Supporting Vocalist



selected media + press ✴︎

2024Journal of Jazz Studies Vol. 15 No. 2




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home ✴︎   
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The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body

2023 - 2024
ALYH ABOVE, Lead Vocalist + Cover Art Designer
Event Page


Conceived during Dr. Lisa Thompson’s 2021 MacDowell artist residency and developed during her 2023-24 Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox artist residency, The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body meditates on Black women’s experiences from the perspectives of mind, body, and spirit. What makes the piece unique is its focus on middle-aged and older Black women, an often invisible and neglected group, especially by the medical establishment. Thompson also celebrates Black feminist pioneers and icons whose contributions to the arts, culture, politics, and academia transformed the world. The piece culminates in an audience dance party and an invitation for Black women to share their own contributions to Black feminist wisdom.


Lisa B. Thompson’s compelling, poetic storytelling incorporates movement, music, and multimedia design. The new piece features original songs co-written with composers Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., and Vince Anthony. Her long-time collaborator, award-winning director Rudy Ramirez, returns to Austin to direct, with Na’Tosha De’Von as Co-Director. Groundbreaking dancer, actor, and choreographer Sadé M. Jones serves as both movement director and performer. Critically acclaimed actors Nadine Mozon and Hayley Armstrong complete the professional performance ensemble.





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