In a Family Way by Kehayr Brown-Ransaw uses archives of family photographs, legal ledgers, and intimate family conversations to challenge the white-driven ancestral paradigm of the individual and conceptualize the communal experiences of the family instead as the central narrative. Brown-Ransaw designs and makes large-scale quilts, rich in color and pattern; integrated into each design are transfers of family photographs.  These textiles are a tactile link between current diasporic experiences and those of his ancestors. The narrative is, in a sense, the life cycle of a quilt as a meditation on its historical context, both from its use as currency by enslaved women to gain access to white society and as a utilitarian comfort object. In a Family Way uses these quilts and a site-specific installation of threads twisted into ropes as a tactile link between current diasporic experiences and those of his ancestors.