Join us at Baton Rouge Gallery for a special Sundays@4 presentation with Dr. Sharbreon Plummer in conjunction with Free as They Want to Be: Artists Committed to Memory.
Dr. Sharbreon Plummer is an internationally distributed writer, public scholar, curator and interdisciplinary artist from south Louisiana. She is the founder of AYA Thought Studio and has spent the past fifteen years shaping and facilitating transformative programs, initiatives and research that center liberation and justice through arts and culture.
As with all programming being held in conjunction with Free as They Want to Be, this event will be open to all with no admission fees.
About Sharbreon Plummer
Sharbreon Plummer, Ph.D. has spent the past fifteen years working at the intersections of nonprofit management, arts and culture, community engagement and project/program management. Her professional journey has prioritized cultivating resources and programs for communities of creators of the global majority, particularly those in the South, whose work advances freedom, liberation and social change. 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.
As a public scholar, Dr. Plummer has facilitated and presented work at/through institutions such as Project Row Houses, Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design, Americans for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archive, and several others. A few of her creative projects include her internationally distributed zine Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles (2022) and curatorial projects such as Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, Stitching Abolition (Chicago, 2022) and Mirrored Migration (New York, 2017). She has also been featured as an artist-in-residence at Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas, NV) and Arquetopia (Oaxaca, MX). She also serves as the editor for Uncoverings and is a staff writer for Quiltfolk and Homecooked Magazines. Her most recent book, Black Quilts: Memory, Method and Medicine, is slated for release in 2026 through Chronicle Books.
