Arielle Gray

About

Arielle Gray is a journalist, writer and artist who is proud to be a native Bostonian. She is a reporter at WBUR, Boston's NPR station, where she covers Black and brown communities through the lens of art and culture. Her work examines the spaces that thrive beneath the humus of Western hegemony- she believes this is where we find possibility and creation. Her writing has appeared in NPR, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, the Boston Art Review and ZORA Magazine and her artwork has been featured in the Boston Globe and Boston Art Review. From 2022 to 2024, Arielle was a Luminary artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where she explored the possibilities of audio in storytelling. In 2022, she conceived and executed the Future Archive Project at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a community audio and photography exhibition highlighting Black LGBTQIA+ individuals in the Boston area. In 2021, she co-curated Combahee's Radical Call, a multi-modal exhibit exploring Black feminism in Boston at the Boston Center for the Arts. She is a 2020 Create Well Fund awardee and a 2021 A4A artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts.