Arianna Barley-Uribe (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Huntsville, Alabama. She received her BA in Painting from The University of Alabama in 2018, and her Masters of Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 2025. Her solo thesis exhibition was hosted at Step Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona, and centered on her research and site engagements with Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama. Arianna received Arizona State University’s Nathan Cummings Graduate Travel Grant (2024) and was nominated and selected as an ASU Graduate College Enrichment Fellow (2022-2024). Recent group exhibitions include Becoming-with at Step Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona (2023), body/architecture/landscape at Cosanti Originals in Paradise Valley, Arizona (2023) Ancestral Threads at Blue Lotus Gallery in Tucson, Arizona (2025), and Breath, at Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe, Arizona (2026). She is currently a public school arts educator in Tempe, Arizona.

Artist Statement

Rooted in the material culture and histories of the Black Southern United States, my work explores and questions ways of knowing. Through my practice, I utilize elements passed down as tools for understanding and examining our relationship to ancestral and shared histories and futures. Historically-imbued materials, oral histories, and archival documentation are placed in conversation with fibers and textile processes as methods of examination and meaning-making with the past. Working simultaneously within and outside of institutional modes of historical engagement, my studio practice is guided by considerations of authorship and distinctions and interdependencies between “official” and speculative ways of knowing. The work begins with care and criticality, centers the archival encounter as grounds for understanding and imagining, and strives to remain accountable to our shared histories as well as our collective futures.