Bio
Adriana Mia Uribe-Rodriguez was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in North Andover, Massachusetts, she is a Textile and Fashion artist currently based in Portland, Maine. Uribe-Rodriguez will obtain a BFA in Textile and Fashion Design in May 2026 from Maine College of Art & Design
Her work is centered around exploring the possibilities of decolonial textiles and garments. She creates unique fashion objects through careful consideration of silhouette and color. Her work pries open binaries exploring what can lie between them.
The collision of cultural, gendered and or sexual identities can stimulate a personal impostor syndrome–a suspicion that you're not an ‘authentic version’ of yourself. Fashion and textile objects serve as a site for bodies constricted by systems of oppression to feel empowered and validated.
Research into historical silhouettes of textile histories–specifically the tensions between American/European and Latin American systems of dress, is a large part of my design process to restage my relationship with my culture. Visually representing this feeling of disconnection, the multiplicities, as new possibilities and perspectives to find a new solid ground.
Expectations of visual culture and how modes of dress have shifted through time is a key component of my work. With this framework to explore decolonized aesthetics, my designs make use of material, color and silhouettes as tools to twist assumptions of gender and cultural expression in order to empower bodies otherwise restricted.