Join AAEP Alum, Dr. Sharbreon Plummer, for lunch and an informal discussion about how to navigate the process as a graduate student while planning for the future. Dr. Plummer has built a successful, thriving career outside of academia and will return to the department to share her experience and offer advice for those on the journey.
Please rsvp HERE by March 18, 2024.
About Dr. Sharbreon Plummer
Dr. Plummer is strategist, researcher, educator and artist with over thirteen years of nonprofit management experience, with an emphasis on the arts. Her practice has involved cultivating resources and programs for communities of creators across the South whose work advances freedom, liberation and social change. She applies the intersection of her management and creative experience as leader of AYA Thought Studio—a creative consulting firm that empowers organizations and individuals to turn their ideas, visions, and values into reality. She also serves as a Co-Director of Programs at Threewalls, a Chicago-based Black arts space.
Dr. Plummer has facilitated and presented work at institutions such as Project Row Houses, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, 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 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). Dr. Plummer is the author of the forthcoming book Black Quilts: Memory, Method and Medicine, slated to be published by Chronicle Books in 20205.
This luncheon is a precursor to the Creative Pathfinders Career Networking Event that Dr. Plummer will serve as a panelist for on the evening of March 26, 2024 at the Longaberger Alumni House.
