Build a Block: Simple Raw Edge Appliqué

Drop in to create a quilt block with this year's Harris Lecturer, artist and public scholar Dr. Sharbreon Plummer. Participants will use raw edge appliqué to shape a block based on a personal experience, intuitive/embodied making, or any other form of inspiration.

Thursday, November 13
2:30-4:30pm
Wisconsin Idea Room (1199)

About the instructor: 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.