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Black white and Yay all over

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You can take the girl out of Providence but you can’t take Providence from the girl! See you soon ocean state

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Some things from spring before I post some things from summer🌻

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We are here in Randomville !! Believe it

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Abbey Foreman and Ada Franey do a color project

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Some lovely film from alumni house taken by @madadamama_ in the spring!🌷

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Thank you RISD for the people and Providence for your magic, there are no words to describe how full my heart is #goballs

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goodbye risd! #graduated #painting #awesomeness

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Meet Ada Franey (she/her), a senior in Textiles.

What question are you investigating in your thesis work?

My degree project is an investigation of the use of textiles as archival documents through the replication and abstraction of specific and mundane spaces. Whether this is the ceiling of a bedroom, or a jacket hung on the back of a door, I hope my audience will think twice about spatial experiences they may otherwise have not considered, and connect that reconsideration to a broader thoughtfulness of day-to-day life.

What are your plans after graduation?

I will be working as a textile designer at J.Crew this summer, and then returning in the fall to work for a Providence-based knitwear company.

Website: adafraney.com

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Meri, Ada, and Kara!

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A bit ago, I made a quilt! I was fortunate to have it on view in the museum last year. Now my quilt gets to be used in my living room. Feel free to read a bit more about it below

This quilt speaks to my complicated relationship with France (where I grew up) and my queerness. I feel a growing distance between myself and French culture. Throughout my adolescence, I rejected the francophone world for being a rigid place where I couldn’t be myself. I gradually stopped surrounding myself with French speakers, and eventually, I moved away.

“Tu me manques” in French or, as printed in small print on the white fabric, “I miss you” is stated as the message the quilt shares. Maybe missing a person I used to be, an expectation, or the person I could be. The direct translation is “you are missing from me,” offering the additional meaning that there is part of me that is missing.
The type is drawn to resemble the cursive writing I would use in French, designed out of fabric squares and triangles. The grid printed on the squares is the rigid grid used in France for cursive writing.

It was important to me to have this message on a large quilt, an important work of labor to scale with the emotional weight of the sentiment. The quilt takes on a new role as an object to comfort and envelop, bringing some emotional consolation.

First photo credit to Erik Gould

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Big troubleshoot

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