Ashley Johnson Email & Phone Number

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

hiaj, LLC is a boutique creative agency providing a suite of creative services and support for a broad range of clientele. The service library includes—but is not limited to—creative consultation, coaching, copywriting, photography, videography, campaign strategy, food styling, content creation, creative direction, social media management, web and graphic design, product photography and more. @hiaj also exists as a social media presence that fosters authentic community, engaging social conversation, intentional influencer marketing, social advocacy (both locally and beyond) and fine art.- Incorporating community-driven storytelling strategies that evolves with the contemporary social landscape and industry trends.- Developing and implementing distinctive storytelling/coverage (video, photo, copywriting) that aligns with core brand values and objectives.- Generating engaging, mission-driven content while adhering individual brand standards.- Tracking analyzing, and reporting on KPI’s, and campaign progress.- Collaborating with the client’s cross-functional marketing, creative and business teams to achieve broad campaign awareness, authentic community engagement and organic growth.- Undertaking routine administrative tasks to ensure the organization, functionality, coordination and distribution essential brand functions activities including events, brand-specific programming (both digital and in-person).- As a fine artist: planning and hosting immersive, sold-out experiences.Select Clients: Tribeca Film Festival | Goodies LA | Wake Forest University Innovation Quarter | Henry Rose by Michelle Pfeiffer

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Writer and a multidisciplinary creative entrepreneur living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Inspired by the contemporary “flash-form” narrative—an art form that neither requires nor offers resolution—Johnson asks complex questions on Black identity through staged portraits.Johnson uses mix-media, performance, live florals, and woven and braided masks to navigate to navigate themes within intra and interracial conflict, identity evolution, intergenerational impact, Southern femininity, studies of relative time as it relates to African American/feminine beauty practices, and other psychosocial studies.Select Solo Shows"Shadow Work”The Java ProjectBrooklyn, NYApril 29 - May 29, 2022“Behind the Mask”Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC)Los Angeles, CAJanuary 22 - March 13, 2021“Mark Yourself Safe”Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)Winston-Salem, NCJanuary 16 - February 14, 2021“Mark Yourself Safe”Bellarmine University Photography BiennialLouisville, Kentucky October 11 - November 8, 2019“Reach”Central Gallery at Revolution MillGreensboro, NCJuly 6 - August 12, 2018Select Group Shows“Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now”Nasher Museum of ArtDurham, NCJanuary 13 – July 10, 2022“Bag(s) of Sand” - in conjunction with Wake Forest University Affective Injustice Philosophy ConferenceSawtooth School for Visual ArtWinston-Salem, NCMay 27, 2022 - August 2022“Imaginary Landscapes: Stories of the American SouthBascom Center for the Visual ArtsHighlands, NCMay 17 - August 27, 2022“The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity”Forsyth County Public LibraryWinston-Salem, NCFebruary - March 2021“Behind the Mask”Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC)Los Angeles, CA - January 22 - March 13, 2021