Ariana Kier is a ceramicist and soil catalogist from San Diego, California. She runs wild clay workshops for artists in the region focused on foraged materials and works out of her studio in the mountains. Her studio contains foraged salts, stones, ochres, clays, ash and other pigments from around the globe.

Her work investigates novel ways to approach the medium and explores how a relationship between indigenous land stewards and modern material engineers may cultivate sustainable innovations for the field. One which is having larger and more detrimental impacts on our natural world.

She teaches frequently at non-profit community spaces in San Diego, and is currently commencing research with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography on the effects of high temperatures on marine sediments as well as exploring their potential for artistic applications post-research.