Jarvis Grant, an award-winning photographer, arts educator, creative strategist, and artist/curator whose prolific career includes commercial assignments, fine art exhibitions, and publications from around the world. An early adopter of digital media, Jarvis is known as creative professional able to help others realize their vision. Whether it’s building art curricula for universities, wiring public schools for the Internet, or enabling artists to actualize visual existences, his attitude is fresh, authentic, and resourceful.
His educator credentials include being an Assistant Professor of Art at Howard University, co-chair of the Museum Studies department at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, creator of the Art of Light Digital Imaging Workshops, and founding member of the Surdna Art Educator Fellowship. Commercial clients include Coca-Cola, Southwest Airlines, Smithsonian Institution, Black Enterprise, Men’s Fitness, Prudential Life, and Sony Music.
With exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, the Howard University Gallery of Art, the Center of Fine Art Photography, the David Driskill Center, the Montgomery College Media Arts Gallery, and the American University’s Katzen Center Museum. Receiving support from the NEA & DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Jarvis curated the photography exhibit, Lay of the Land: Perspective on the American Landscape at the DC Commission Galleries.
Awards include artist, educational, and cultural honors from the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities, Humanities Council of Washington DC, National Endowment for the Arts, and a semi-finalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
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