About Najja

Najja Akinwole is a multi award winning animator from Baltimore, MD who loves crafting anything fantastical and weird. She received her BFA in animation with a minor in illustration from the Maryland Institute of College Art (MICA). She recently won an award for Best of Baltimore for her multi-media thesis film, How Was Your Day?, at the at the International Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival. Currently she is working as a teaching artist for the Americorps Community Art Collaborative (CAC)… more