Diasporic Threads : Black Women, Fibre and Textiles
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An invigorating survey of Black women textile artists, celebrating their vital contributions to cultural and social histories through fibre-related mediums.
Historically ignored or overlooked in surveys of art history, Black women artists that work in fibre and textiles have often been further neglected – their artworks reduced to hobby or handiwork without proper consideration to their deeper significance. From rug-making and hand-felting to computational textiles, the work of seven contemporary artists offers a remedy. Explored through a series of interviews, Diasporic Threads collates their diverse practice in a potent reminder that anti-Blackness and misogynoir are global issues, contested and resisted at the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory.
About the author
Sharbreon Plummer, PhD is a public scholar, independent curator and artist whose work focuses on Black art history, Southern folkways, textiles and material culture. 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 the People’s Quilting Bee, co-developed with Dr. Jess Bailey. Her curatorial projects include 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 was most recently awarded a 2025-26 Crossroads Arts Fellowship through Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion. Dr Plummer also serves as 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.