ABOUT Tre Singleton
(b. 1982, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, US)
Awards 2020 Jersey City Arts Council Artist Grant
Education New York University, MA in Art Therapy, 2010 Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA Art Edu, 2006
Publications 2020 Thoughts On The Power of Goodness, Chapel Hill Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 2019 A Garden of Black Joy anthology, Black Table Arts, Minneapolis,MN 2018 Breakwater Review Issue 21, UMass Boston. 2016 Invisible Bear, Duke University Press 2015 On Being, NPR, online guest columnist 2013 Free Movements, hand-sewn chapbook, edition of 25. 2013 When My Hero Left. New York: Drinking Gourd Press. 2009 Sometimes Mama’s Just Like That. New York: Drinking Gourd Press.
Performance/Reading 2016 Vagabondage album w/ Grace K Wakeman. 2015 Duke University Little Corner Poetry Series feat. Bhanu Kapil, Durham, NC
Exhibits/Installations 2020 Origami + Mindfulness on Vimeo 2018 Introspective Collective, LES Gallery at The Clemente Center, New York, NY 2014 Unified Visionaries benefit art auction, Free Candy, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Green Inspired Art, 287 Spring gallery, SOHO New York, NY 2013 Art Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY. 2011 From KLA to BK, MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
Teaching/Public Talks 2019 Teaching Artist, Grupo Libro Albierto, Queens, NY. 2019 Panelist (Introspective Collective show), New York, NY 2015 Origami + Mindfulness Course, St Thomas More School, Chapel Hill, NC 2012 Guest Lecturer, NYU, New York, NY. 2011-2019 Workshop Facilitator, Origami Therapy Association, New York, NY. 2008 Teaching Artist, Grand Street Settlement, LES, NY
I have maintained a regular meditation practice since 1996. While on sabbatical in 2016, i underwent 9 month temporary Buddhist monk vows with Pema Chödrön at Gampo Abbey in Canada. In 2020 i completed 200-hour Mindfulness Teacher Certification (CMT).
