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 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.
education ✴︎
2023 - 2025
2023
2015 - 2020
2013 - 2015
2009 - 2013Grassroots 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
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
Founder + Artist, ALYH ABOVE Creative Studio
current iterations ✴︎2025
2025
2025
existentia: an art-journal
here and human: the muse-letter
Substack
elemental table of fulfillment
selected works + experiences ✴︎
2025
2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2021
2021
2019
2017
2017
existentia.
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 - 2015Assata’s House: Videographer, Graphic Designer
VELVET by Bridge, Art Director + Producer + Vocalist + Songwriter + Cover Art Photographer
WAYVCAST: can you feel the water? Film, Co-Director + Editor
WAYVCAST Trailers 001 - 010
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
creative support ✴︎
art@alyhabove.com ©2025 ALYH ABOVE
alyh ab✴︎ve
portrait ✴︎
education ✴︎
In Progress
2021 - 2025
2023
2015 - 2020
2013 - 2015
2009 - 2013
ALYH ABOVE is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and worldbuilder constructing artistic research projects aimed toward studying, expressing, and reflecting on The Human Experience as Creative Process and its role in black fulfillment.
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, fulfillment-based change.
WHY FULFILLMENT?
Because it is resistance against dehumanization. It is a way for us to choose to be human while living amidst systems that attempt to dehumanize us.
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
education ✴︎
portrait ✴︎2025
education ✴︎
In Progress
2021 - 2025
2023
2015 - 2020
2013 - 2015
2009 - 2013ALYH ABOVE is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and worldbuilder constructing artistic research projects aimed toward studying, expressing, and reflecting on The Human Experience as Creative Process and its role in.
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, , which equips artists and cultural workers to create the world(s) we need next. Through ’s non-linear educational, artistic, and archival offerings, ALYH intends to help seed liberative, fulfillment-based change.
Because it is resistance against dehumanization. It is a way for us to choose to be human while living amidst systems that attempt to dehumanize us.
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 ✴︎2025existentia: a sound journal
dead-tape: in process
here + human studio
here and human: the muse-letter
Substack
elemental table of fulfillment
selected works + experiences ✴︎2024
2019
2021
2023
2023
2023
2021
2023
2017
2017
2014 - 2021
2022
impart + parcel: mini-mixes
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
selected collaborations ✴︎___The Giver’s Revival Retreat, Vocal Arranger + Choir Director
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
selected media + press ✴︎___Journal of Jazz Studies Vol. 15 No. 2
build with ALYH ✴︎art@alyhabove.com ©2025 ALYH ABOVE