The Thirty for Thirty Project was created as an artistic community to raise money in support of Tupelo Press.
Join these artists as they create and post their work every day for the month of February.
ava m. hu is the curator of the enlightenment projects. read her poems and more about her at www.avamhu.com
ava m hu
Mackenzie is a 22 year old Graphic Designer from Omaha, Nebraska. She moved to New York in 2011 and has lived there ever since. She graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2014 with a BA in Web Design + Graphic Design and a minor in Web Applications + Development. She has developed a strong eye for and interest in Typographic work and is currently learning User Experience Design and teaching herself how to illustrate.
You can view her work at www.mackenziewyatt.com
Mackenzie Wyatt
Scott H. Massarsky is a song-writer, musician, and artist who studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan with a focus on painting, print-making and art therapy. He has shown his work in the New York City/New Jersey area including exhibits curated by Tim Rollins and Gunars Prande in SoHo, and has received grants from the Puffin Foundation for both visual arts and songwriting. He has taught in many settings, including classroom, cultural center, elder care facilities, hospitals, and museums. His current project, the Peace Garden Song and Mural Project is an artist in residence program that brings music, murals and mindfulness into school and educational settings.
Songcatcher
https://songcatcherblog.wordpress.com
Peace Garden Song and Mural Project:
http://www.peacegardenproject.com
SCOTT H. MASSARSKY
Tyler Oliver is a Los Angeles based director and photographer. His latest project, Aerial Mandalas, is a series of large-scale aerial photographs that explore our relationship to our vast yet fragile planet. He is currently developing a sci-fi thriller TV series based on the intersection of ancient mythology and quantum artificial intelligence.
Tyler Oliver
Hubert Guy is currently journeying into the dynamics that yolk creativity and consciousness and along the way, gaining a better understanding of the human condition, potential, and interconnection. He finds inspiration through contemplative and meditative practices, the arts, the conjunction of Eastern and Western thought, and most importantly, the support of his family and friends.
hubert Guy
Dev Atma lives and works in New York City, after many moons lived in Virginia, Philadelphia, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a longtime yoga teacher, a newly minted legal professional, and a veteran of the Enlightenment Projects. This year, he will limit his focus to poems that response to the 32 "beads" of the Diamond Sutra (aka "the Diamond Cutter"), a profound and deliberately constructed dialectical text that uses language as a means of peeling back the layers of the mind.
Dev Atma
Jason Galloway lives, teaches young children, plays the flute, and reads and writes in Greenville, SC. He recently participated in the Summer Writing Seminar at his alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. He has published work in The Enlightenment Projects, The Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, and in the online journal Right Hand Pointing.
Jason Galloway
Phillip X Levine is poetry editor for Chronogram magazine and president of the Woodstock Poetry Society. His prose poem "Soon" appears in Firewheel Editions anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem.
PHILLIP X LEVINE
Emma Gray is an artist who has worked in contemporary art in many iterations, recently as an advisor/curator, building private collections and working in depth mentoring and fostering the careers of a small group of artists. Her Los Angeles project space Five Car Garage, established in 2013, has been extensively covered in local press and in magazines such as ArtForum, Frieze, Flash Art, ArtReview and Art in America. A former editor of ArtReview who studied at University College London and studied portraiture at Heatherley Art School, London, she has been re-emerging as a painter in the last five years. In addition, Emma has been meditating for over 20 years and has recently opened a small meditation studio “WhiteRose” above the Five Car Garage art project.
www.emmagraystudio.com
Emma Gray
Born and bred in New York City.
JAMEY MACGILVRAY
Megan Leigh is a Brooklyn based illustrator and graphic designer. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, she decided to continue her education there and received a Bachelor's in the Fine Arts from Syracuse University in 2013. Megan relocated to New York in 2015 to be part of an artist team with Avalove, and continues to develop and mold her own style to her new surroundings and experiences.
Megan Leigh
Abi is a graphic designer from Atlanta, Georgia. She loves fashion and 3D graphics. In 2014. she recieved a grant from the Ideas for Creative Exploration to start an online magazine called TOM BOY TOM CAT which she edited, designed, and creative directed.
ABI LAMBERT
id·e·o·gram is a collaborative project that investigates interconnection, narrative, and personal experiences. Each day, for the duration of thirty days, each individual will create an ideogram with paper, brush, and black ink that best expresses one’s internal reality. Every week all seven ideograms will be exchanged altogether between participating individuals and be woven by string into a visual semiotic structure, creating a poetic representation of another person. Thus, each individual engages in a non-verbal dialogue that invokes an exploration of empathic intelligence by creating meaning through visual symbolism, relationship, and empathic understanding.
ID•E•O•GRAM
Haiku is a conversation of haiku between poets Jason Galloway and Ava M. Hu
Moved by curiosity, surrounded by wonder.
Denise
Carly is an artist and illustrator living and working in Brooklyn NY. She studied communications design & illustration at Pratt Institute where she received her BFA, and continues her post-graduate studies with Dalvero Academy. She has created work for a diverse group of clients, including Thompson Hotels, IDEO, Calypso St. Barth, Amplify Education, Ideeli and many more. Her work is currently on view at Mystic Seaport as part of Dalvero Academy's show "Journey of Transformation: An Exploration of our Evolving Relationship with the Whale."
Carly
Jennifer Hickman is a writer, editor, yoga teacher and holistic health practitioner. She is the founder and creator of Fullbloom Healing and Elixirs based in Brooklyn, New York. FullBloom
Jennifer Hickman
Said Helian
Welcome to the 30/30 Project, an extraordinary challenge and fundraiser for Tupelo Press, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary press. Each month, volunteer poets run the equivalent of a “poetry marathon,” writing 30 poems in 30 days, while the rest of us “sponsor” and encourage them every step of the way. Click here to see more https://tupelopress.wordpress.com/3030-project/