Dr. Sharbreon Plummer is an internationally distributed writer, public scholar, curator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her research and artistic practice have been shaped by her investigations into Black art history and cultural studies, craft and material studies, Southern folkways, and her lived experience as a native of South Louisiana. She is the author of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles and editor of Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilts in the American South. She is primarily based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sharbreon Plummer pieces together a dazzling celebration of how the Black American quilting tradition has functioned as ‘a tool for survival, a way to care for ourselves and others, and a method for keeping culture alive.’” —Publishers Weekly

Dr. Sharbreon Plummer is an internationally distributed writer, public scholar, curator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her research and artistic practice have been shaped by her investigations into Black art history and cultural studies, craft and material studies, Southern folkways, and her lived experience as a native of South Louisiana. She is the author of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles and editor of Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilts in the American South. She is primarily based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sharbreon Plummer pieces together a dazzling celebration of how the Black American quilting tradition has functioned as ‘a tool for survival, a way to care for ourselves and others, and a method for keeping culture alive.’” —Publishers Weekly

Dr. Sharbreon Plummer is an internationally distributed writer, public scholar, curator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her research and artistic practice have been shaped by her investigations into Black art history and cultural studies, craft and material studies, Southern folkways, and her lived experience as a native of South Louisiana. She is the author of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles and editor of Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilts in the American South. She is primarily based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sharbreon Plummer pieces together a dazzling celebration of how the Black American quilting tradition has functioned as ‘a tool for survival, a way to care for ourselves and others, and a method for keeping culture alive.’” —Publishers Weekly