CV (abbreviated)

EDUCATION

Ph.D, The Ohio State University, 2020

M.A., University of New Orleans, 2014

B.A., University of Houston-Downtown, 2011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Interim Artistic Director, Threewalls, July 2024 - Present

Founder + Lead Consultant, AYA Thought Studio, 2017 - Present

Project Consultant, Red Olive Creative Consulting, 2020-2023

Co-Director of Programs, Threewalls, January 2023-June 2024

Program Associate for Community Engagement, Joan Mitchell Center, 2014 - 2017

WRITING

Publications

Black Quilts: Memory, Method and Medicine
Chronicle Books
Spring 2026 (estimated release date)

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South (Editor)
University Press of Mississippi
November 2024

Diasporic Threads: Black Women in Fiber Art
Common Threads Press
June 2022

Book Chapters

Acuff, J. B., Plummer, S.- Artifacts of Resistance Existence: A Black Feminist Material Culture. In D. Garnet, & A. Skinner (Eds.). (2022). Living Histories: Global Conversations in art education. Intellect.

Exhibition Catalog Contributions

(Forthcoming) Plummer, S. (2025). A Voice of the People: The Work of Dorothy Burge. In On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival. Art Institute of Chicago.

(Forthcoming) Plummer, S. (2025). A Table of Our Own: A Conversation on Repair, Reclamation, and Rootedness. In ROUTED WEST: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

(Forthcoming) Plummer, S. (2024). Home and Heart: Gussie Beatrice Hill. In The Quilts of Mrs. Gussie Beatrice Arnold Hill. Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts.

Plummer, S. (2021). Many Rooms. In Many Rooms: The South Got Something to Say. The Masur Museum of Art.

Plummer, S. (2020). Jameel Paulin. In 2020 MFA Catalog. The Ohio State University Department of Art.

Plummer, S. (2019). Jamie Battersby. In 2019 MFA Catalog. The Ohio State University Department of Art.

Plummer, S. (2018). Kerry James Marshall. In Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art An American City: Volume I.

Plummer, S. (2018). Michael Oatman. In Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art An American City: Volume I.

Plummer, S. (2018). Odili Donald Odita. In Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art An American City: Volume I.

Plummer, S. (2018). Walter Price. In Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art An American City: Volume I.

Plummer, S. (2018). Martine Syms. In Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art An American City: Volume I.

Plummer, S. (2018). Lauren Yeager. In Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art An American City: Volume I.

ACADEMIC/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Editor-at-Large
Uncoverings: American Quilt Study Group
2024-present

Invited Guest Co-editor
Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education
2019-2020

Editorial Assistant, 2019-2021
Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education

Graduate Teaching Associate, 2018 - 2020
The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Research Assistant, 2018 - 2020
Women of Color Quilters’ Network
Columbus/Cincinnati, OH

AWARDS

2022 Craft Research Fund Project Grant (Co-awarded as part of Stitch x Stitch Collective) —Center for Craft, 2022

2021 Bursary Award (Co-awarded with Common Threads Press) —Costume and Textile Association (UK). 2021

Community Partnership Equity Grant — New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, 2021

Manuel Barkan Dissertation Award — The Ohio State University on Department of Arts Administration Education and Policy, 2020

College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant — The Ohio State University, 2019

ABARAKA Award for African American Women in Visual Arts — San Antonio Ethnic Art Society, 2019

Summer Conference Scholarship — Haystack Mountain School of Craft, 2019

Sesquicentennial Student Scholar Leadership Scholarship — The Ohio State University, 2019

PRESENTATIONS/PANELS

Guest Lecturer: Introduction to Pre-20th Century Black Diaspora Art
Princeton University - Dept. of Art History
October 2024

Guest Speaker: Intro the People’s Quilting Bee
RISD Dept. of Costumes and Textiles, Providence, RI
April 2024

Guest Lecturer: Quilting as Community Practice Workshop
Princeton University - Dept. of African and African American Studies
April 2024

Guest Lecturer: Medicine, Literature, and the Visual Arts
Princeton University - Dept. of Art & Art History
April 2024

Professional Development Lecturer: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Pts 1 & 2
Davis Art
March 2024

Guest Lecturer: Crafting Intersectionality
Bard Center Graduate Studies Center (co-lead with Jess Bailey)
January 2024

Guest Lecturer: Quilting as Community Practice
Princeton University - Dept. of African and African American Studies
November 2023

Guest Speaker: Gee’s Bend Quilting: Examining the Foundation
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
April 2023

Guest Lecturer + Panelist: Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fiber and Textiles
Rhode Island School of Design - Textiles Department, Providence, RI
April 2023

Moderator: Looking Forward - Black Visual Artists in Conversation
CAAIP/The Soul of Philanthropy, Chicago, IL
April 2023

Professional Development Lecturer: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Pts 1 & 2
Davis Art
April 2023

CURATORIAL

Curator: Of Salt and Spirit - Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, November 2024

Curator: “Stitch x Stitch” - Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL, July - August 2022

Curator: “Mirrored Migrations” - Rush Corridor Gallery, New York City, NY, April-May 2017

Curatorial Consultant: “Year of the Flag Boy: Blue Linen Monday” - Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame, New Orleans, LA , August 2014

ARTISTIC PRACTICE + SERVICE

Co-Organizer: The People’s Quilting Bee Art & Lecture Series
Tatter Blue Library
September 2023 - January 2024

Advisor: Patterns in Abstraction Convening - High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
May 2023

Advisor: Quilt Study Days - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Eli Leon Living Trust Quilt Collection), Berkeley, CA
October 2023

Featured Artist: “REMINISCENCE” - Rogers Studio Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
October 2019

Participating Artist: “Afrofuture Society presents: Southern Parlour” (Group Exhibition) - Ace Hotel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
August-October 2016

Participant: “Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter” - Organized by Simone Leigh
2016

Creator: “New Orleans Anansi Project,” New Orleans, LA
March 2016-present

Participating Artist: “What Does Black Lives Matter Mean to You?” (Group exhibition) MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
February 2016

Exhibition Design Team Member: “Donald Harrison, Sr.:The Legacy Continues” - Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame, New Orleans, LA
November 2013