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Diasporic Threads
Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre & Textiles is an important publication from Common Threads Press that highlights Black women's contributions to art and history through fibre-related mediums. This publication surveys the history of Black women and textiles in North America, and spotlights five artists through a series of interviews, paying careful attention to the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory. Centering art history and education through Black feminist framework, Diasporic Threads asks readers to question how we can best honor the work and artistic creativity of Black women
“Diasporic Threads platforms a stunning selection of works by contemporary Black women textile artists and is rich in critical insight and historical context.” - Ferren Gipson, author of Women's Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Arts and The Ultimate Art Museum.
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QuiltFolk Magazine
Since 2021, Dr. Plummer has written for Quiltfolk, quarterly print magazine that celebrates the people and stories behind the stitches. Through the art of storytelling, Quiltfolk explores the lives, work, history, and stories of our fellow quilters.
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Artifacts of Resistance Existence: A Black Feminist Material Culture in Living Histories: Global Conversations in Art Education
By Sharbreon Plummer, Ph.D. and Joni Boyd Acuff, Ph.D.
In this chapter, Frantz Fanon’s work is used as a philosophical guide that allows the authors to conceptualize the social and racial inequities situated in the art world and artwork histories. The addition of Fanon to the Critical Race Theory discourse is very much intentional, as his work allows the authors to argue that the issue of racism is not only about the systemic invisibility of Blackness, but also about the systemic non-existence of Blackness when Whiteness is not present to “other” it. After applying Fanon’s philosophy and CRT to artwork histories, the authors narrow their discussion to a nuanced investigation of Black women’s attempts to move from a static object to a lived subject in the arts by introducing the emergent framework of a Black Feminist Material culture.
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Front Triennial: An American City Catalog
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art is an exhibition comprised of artist commissions, performances, films, and public programs that will launch its inaugural edition in July of 2018. An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, in collaboration with museums, civic institutions, and alternative spaces across Cleveland, Akron and Oberlin, will showcase an ambitious roster of projects, including performance and theater throughout the landscape and built environment. Dr. Plummer’s contributions include artist profiles on Kerry James Marshall, Michael Oatman, Odili Donald Odita, Walter Price, Martine Syms and Lauren Yeager.
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