Vita Plume has exhibited her work throughout Canada as well as in the United States, Poland, Latvia and Finland. She holds a Masters of Fine Art degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Plume is currently an Assistant Professor in Art and Design at the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.. She was the Head of the Textiles Studio at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, N.B. (1999 – 2001) and Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Fibres Programme of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec (1995-1998). She currently shares her time between her home in Jemseg, New Brunswick and teaching in North Carolina.

Plume is a teacher and textile artist. In her work she combine images, symbols, patterns, and text from her family history and her Latvian cultural background to address issues of displacement, cultural duality, erasure and loss. Cloth and woven structures are used as metaphors for cultural identity and through the juxtaposition and manipulation and of pattern within image her weaving speaks about the instability and transformation of identity and memory.

Plume has combined traditional Latvian hand weaving techniques with the latest in computerized design systems and computer assisted dobby and jacquard looms. She enjoys the challenge of working with the limitations and possibilities of each of these tools.