Monthly Archives: July 2016

Shifting the Narrative: How AjA Empowers Underserved Youth to Tell Their Stories Through Photography

By |2019-09-27T00:35:29+00:00July 24th, 2016|Press|

Photographer Edward Steichen once said, “Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” Photographs speak to our emotions and allow us to tell our story by showing others how we interpret the world. For this reason, photography is a powerful driver of social change and individual growth – two major components of The

Crushing on: The AjA Project’s Collective Voices Program

By |2019-10-01T19:43:17+00:00July 19th, 2016|Press|

Young Muslim women from City Heights in San Diego, California use the arts to tackle topics of identity, representation, and dual-consciousness in their installation entitled: “Navigating the Map of Our Selfhood” Participants from The AjA Project, a City-Heights-based nonprofit (funded by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art), exhibited a large-scale public art piece this month at the Museum

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