Aisha Raison is a filmmaker/photographer and poet who has used both skills as a multimedia artist and activist in the Memphis area. Raised in Ripley, Tennessee in the Spiller Hill neighborhood, she credits her parents for the exposure of Womanism, jazz and art at a young age: it was her father who taught her photography at 3 and her mother who gave her books and art outside of her small town. Since 2016, Aisha has merged her imagination, poetry and vision into award winning films such as Girls Like Me: a self/love story and Dancin' to the Blue Moon as well as using her skills as an activist photographer throughout the city of Memphis, a mentor with groups such as Hattiloo Theatre's Write On Speak Out and tour guide with Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum. She became one of the winners of the ArtsMemphis ArtsAccelerated Grant and presented her photography in her first art show Re/Verse'd in the Summer of 2019 as well as present her work in art for jobs and for artsmemphis. At the present, she is working on a new multimedia show IAMYDGE (I am not your dark girl experience) and spaces and places i've been:a journey to ghana for 2021.
for booking and inquiries
contact aisharaison@gmail.com
