[1] Grant had a cobalt blue 'graffiti tag' of a pine tree coastline with his initials CFG, and on a midnight graffiti session, he had painted ten foot high cobalt blue iris flowers stretching the block-long 100 foot wall on the Lower East Side Con Edison plant, at Avenue C and 14th Street, titled "Open your Irises", in protest of the pollution produced by the energy plant.

Carson exhibited his Sacred Black Hills, SD paintings and rope sculptures in the first NYC Earth Day 1980 celebration along Avenue of the Americas and created a complimentary ‘Environmental Artists United” EAU T-shirt for the event.

In 1981, as the WSAC group marched to Lincoln Center to protest President Ronald Reagan's budget cuts to the Arts, Grant's photographs appeared on the front page of the Westsider Newspaper,.

Grant attended and taught at Pratt School of Art and Design, New York City to enhance his knowledge of computer graphics and digital editing.

Painting on the computer tablet, Carson created animations for the 1991 Sony's Time Square Video Screen, present-day Panasonic panel hung on the One Times Square building, for the Ayer advertising campaign "Breakthrough with the Unexpected" animation of an egg cracking to release a butterfly [8] and also projects for IBM, Intel, Kodak, DeBeers, Shell, American Express, and National Geographic's Global Access Interactive Gallery in Washington, D.C. For the SIGGRAPH - 1990 Convention, Texas, to honor John F. Kennedy's memory, Grant constructed the suspended 3D hologram sculpture (100 ft × 100 ft) titled Harmony Mountain inside the second floor of the old Dallas Union Train Station, where a viewer could walk around and under the mountainous shape.

Grant participated as a visual artist in many group art exhibitions in New York City as a curator, a contributing painter and photographer.

[10] In 2010, Carson Ferri-Grant painted a 32 ft x 14 ft mural of a Buzzard Bay estuary, on the third floor exterior of the old Ocean Spray Cranberry Factory in East Wareham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, which helped draw the artistic community to this location, as the Buzzard Bay Theater Company and 3065 Music Club.

,[13][14][15] In 2015 Grant was honored to model for Bernando Siciliano's painting of Jesus being taken down from the cross, exhibited at the Alcon Gallery, NYC.

Grant as VP for GIAA,[18] speaks at the AFL-CIO`S DPE-AEMI: Arts Entertainment Media Industry conference 2021-Union Leaders to Discuss Their Legislative Diversity Agenda.