ARTIST FELLOW – FALL 2026
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Sharbreon Plummer, Ph.D. is an award-winning writer, public scholar, curator and interdisciplinary artist. Her practice centers Black art and craft histories, memory work, and southern folksways. With 17 years of experience in the arts and culture sector, her research and thought leadership have been presented in institutions such as Newberry Library, Americans for the Arts, RISD, University of Edinburgh, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Sharbreon’s writing has been published in several books, exhibition catalogs, and experimental publications. She has also written for platforms and print publications such as Hyperallergic, Quiltfolk Magazine, and TATTER Journal.
A few of her other creative projects include her internationally distributed zine Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles and the Black Art Passport. She has organized curatorial projects such as Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South (2024), as well as Stitching Abolition (2022) and Mirrored Migration (2016). Sharbreon, alongside Dr. Jess Bailey, co-founded The People’s Quilting Bee: an international public learning forum and virtual makerspace. She is the author of Stories in the Seams: A People’s History of Black Quilts and Their Makers (Chronicle Books, 2026).
Sharbreon earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University’s Department of Arts Administration, Education and Cultural Policy, with a concentration in Art Education. Sharbreon is the Founder and Director of AYA Thought Studio, an arts and culture-focused consultancy that specializes in technical support, research, and art advising.
Find Sharbreon on Instagram: @sharbreon
