Aji AK
Visual Artist
2025 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Berea) $5,000 to design and create a series of carved ceramic tablets and a mosaic centerpiece that honors her Appalachian matriarchal ancestors through folk surrealist symbolism, ancestral storytelling, and ritual installation. These activities will refine her folk surrealist style, increase her skills as a ceramic artist/carver and deepen her feminist storytelling. This project will create visual tools for dialogue and remembrance that invite folks to reconnect with ancestral matriarchal strength, women’s history and wisdom as a source of cultural memory and social transformation.