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. Grant has been awarded 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize Verge Fellow, 2023 Karamu Room in the House Fellow, and 2022 Cleveland Foundation Equity in the Arts Fellow. She is an art educator with 7 years of experience teaching photography and alternative process.