Meet Fiona Fan (she/her), a senior in Textiles with a concentration in Computation, Technology and Culture (CTC) and Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies (NCSS).
What question are you investigating in your thesis work?
I investigate the theme of “alienation as empowerment” through two parallel directions. One focuses on using material and form to create speculative alter egos that embody confidence, protection, and strength. The other rethinks modern soft goods through knit structures and material choices that respond to physical and emotional pain points.
What are your plans after graduation?
I will be working at Nike as a material designer.
See the work of RISD Textiles alumni Utē Petit and Malaika Temba in Fade, a show currently up from May 1 to September 6 in the Studio Museum in Harlem. 144 W 124th Street, New York, NY 10027
Fade is the sixth installment of the Museum’s “F” show series of exhibitions of emerging artists. Presented in the fourth-floor gallery, Fade features the work of seventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent from across the United States. Comprising newly commissioned and loaned artworks from a variety of media, Fade reflects the concerns of a new generation of artists.
See more work by Utē Petit: /utepetit
See more work by Malaika Temba:
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Curtain Call - 2026 RISD Textiles Senior Show
Woods-Gerry Gallery April 17-21
Work featured:
Nathaniel Campos
Yanhao (Shirley) Chen
Ada Franey
Fiona Fan
Crystal Han
Livia Kasarda
Zachary Kim
Anna Kosinski
Ethan Lam
Kara Petrosino
Meri Sanders
Vince Zhang
Highlights from this year’s Textiles Senior Show! Congrats to our awesome seniors on their awesome work 💪👞
CURTAIN CALL the RISD Textiles Senior Show
Opening Reception - Thursday, April 16th
Woods Gerry Gallery, 62 Prospect Street
6 - 7:30pm.
The show will be on view from
April 17th - April 21st.
We hope to see you there!
Woven Jacquard poster by:
Ada Franey
Nathaniel Campos
Livia Kasarda
Kara Petrosino
Meri Sanders
Crystal Han
Yanhao (Shirley) Chen
Zach Kim
A fantastic opening for “Where Nothing Has Ever Happened” a Gelman Gallery student show co-curated by our own @dahlia13 MFA ‘26. Congratulations those in the show and if you have a chance to stop by the Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum before April 26th, we highly recommend!
Please join us this Tuesday for a conversation w/ Gary Graham!
American artist and fashion designer Gary Graham creates limited-run collections of women’s clothing at his studio in upstate New York. Garments are made on-site using antique textiles, custom jacquards, and natural fiber wovens from domestic mills. GaryGraham422 is his site-specific project that allows space, history and community to determine textile production and to inform the making of intimate collections. Narratives for each collection combine real stories with fictional characters to blur distinctions between past, present and future in mysterious ways. /
Tuesday, April 7th at 12pm, in the Tap Room - Textiles and Apparel students encouraged but all students welcome!
Meet Asmaa Amadou, a second year graduate student in Textiles, with a concentration in surface.
What question are you currently exploring in your work?
“My work investigates the ground as a living archive, how the earth holds traces of migration, labor, and cultural knowledge, and how materials drawn from it carry these histories across generations of West African craft traditions. Through textile, clay, and glass, I explore these histories into form—tracing indigo from West African dye traditions to plantation economies in the American South, and following cloth, clay, and beadwork across centuries of trans-Saharan exchange.“
Meet Yik Heng Lee, a second year graduate student in Textiles, with a concentration in weaving.
What question are you currently exploring in your work?
“My interests lie at the intersection of craft and modernity, structuralism, interiors, queer identity, and critical theory in design. My recent work engages Freud’s psychoanalysis as a conceptual lens to think through modernity in art and design, and to consider how surfaces in interior spaces perform—more critically, how they carry narrative—through craft practice.”
Meet Dahlia Aggarwal, a second year graduate student in Textiles with a concentration in weaving.
What question are you currently investigating in your work?
“My practice investigates how woven structures and tactile surfaces challenge visual assumptions. It explores the gap between seeing and feeling, asking how perception is constructed (and destabilized) through texture, expectation, and physical encounter.”
Meet Maite Sosa Methol, a second year graduate student in Textiles, with a concentration in knitting.
What question are you currently investigating in your work?
“Reclaiming brightness and excess through textiles inspired by Uruguayan landscapes, rituals, and celebration.”
Photo credits:
2-3: Ignea Rivero, Model: Romina di Bartolomeo
4-7: Elysia Perkins
More work: /temaite/
Meet Anne Kim, a second year graduate in Textiles with a concentration in surface.
What question are you currently investigating in your work?
“I explore how light and space transform perception and create new ways for people to experience time and space.”
