Aja Joi Grant

Overview

Aja Joi Grant is a photographer, printmaker and fiber artist documenting black American stories and visions on afro-surrealism, spirituality, liberation and healing.

She has shown work at Cleveland Print Room, Rooms to Let, Akron University, Worthington Yards & Cuyahoga Valley National Park Conservancy. She is a 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize Verge Fellow, 2024 Urgent Art Fund Fellow, 2023 Karamu Room in the House Fellow, and a 2022 Cleveland Foundation Equity in the Arts Fellow. She is an art educator with 7 years of experience teaching photography and alternative process, and has expanded her art & teaching practice to envelope land stewardship & urban gardening.

LAND studio creates places and fosters equitable communities in Cleveland through transformative public art, innovative design, collaborative planning, dynamic programming, and creative placemaking.

Our vision is to make Cleveland a city filled with vibrant, textured places that unite, inspire, and enrich its people.