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Overview

In the fall of 2025, LAND studio proudly selected artist Aja Joi Grant to showcase her work on The Art Wall, a rotating art space on Public Square. Each quarter, a new local artist is picked to transform our cityscape, enriching it with creativity.

This mural is sponsored by the Edwin D Northrup II Fund through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee, Thompson Hine, and the Fox Charitable Foundation.

from the artist

The background layer of this image is from my Free Body series (2022), where I focused on movement, the colors of nature, and the body as a sculptural form. The second, blue-toned layer is a cyanotype print from the same series, created during a different shoot with a different model. Both models chose to use textiles to enhance their form and explore an outstretched, reaching movement. It feels like a spiritual moment—an embrace of sorts: an embrace with an emotion, an experience, a form of ascension. This piece represents the limitless space we
find ourselves in when we embrace ourselves boldly.

Aja Joi Grant

Meet the Artist

Aja Joi Grant

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, Worthin...

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