Vita Plume has been a faculty member in the Fibres Area of the Department of Sculpture, Ceramics and Fibres of Concordia University, Montreal since 1993. She received her Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and she studied Fibres at Sheridan College in Mississauga, Ontario.

She has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, in the U.S. and Europe.

She has received several Canada Council B Grants (1993, 1991) and Travel Grants (1996, 1992, 1990, 1989), as well as scholarships from the Banff Centre for the Arts (1991, 1990), the Artists Union of the U.S.S.R. and the Krisjanis Barons Cultural Award from the Federation of Latvians of the Free World (1986). She has participated as a lecturer at Sismographes, Textiles Symposium (Montreal, 1995), Rugged Connections Weavers' Conference (Sydney, Cape Breton, 1991), Latvian Textile Symposium (Riga, Latvia 1989, 1990).

Her work is represented in several collections including the Nova Scotia Art Bank, the Latvian Cultural Centre, Toronto, the Museum of Decorative Art, Riga, Latvia, the Artists’ Union of the U.S.S.R. and various private collections.

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