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= Carole Frances Lung = Carole Frances Lung (born 1966, age 54 or 55) is an American artist, activist, and scholar. She is known for her alter ego Frau Fiber, who investigates and exposes the human cost of the garment industry through performance art and various other projects. Her performances emphasize the rejection of the fast fashion industry and the worth placed on labor in the garment industry.

Website: https://carolefranceslung.wordpress.com/

Early Life and Education
Lung descends from a long line of tailors and seamstresses and was born in 1966 in Huntington Beach, CA. She studied textiles and clothing in college, earning a Bachelor of Science in the field of Textiles and Clothing from North Dakota State University. Lung also worked as a professional seamstress, cutter, pattern maker, production manager, and designer in the garment industry during the 1980s and 1990s. Over the course of her time in the industry, she witnessed its exploitative practices on workers worldwide. Lung earned her first BFA and MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after returning to school in the early 2000s.

Frau Fiber
Frau Fiber, (Lung's fictional alter ego) was born in Apolda, Germany on September 13, 1966 and worked in local garment factories until the Berlin Wall fell, and she and many other workers lost their jobs to outsourced labor. Lung created Frau Fiber's persona in 2006, after spending a semester abroad in Weimar, Germany. She utilizes Frau as a performing artist, stating:"Frau is performative to me, but she is performing as these agents for change, by organizing spaces and in the context of her public and participatory sewing performances, the Sewing Rebellion."In a 2018 exhibition, Frau Fiber attempts to knit a tube sock faster than a machine. It documents and exemplifies Frau's "on-going battle with contemporary apparel manufacturing," and is comparable to the tale of John Henry, who fought against the drill machine until it ultimately replaced the jobs of many railroad workers. Frau now resides in Long Beach, CA.

Made in Haiti
Made in Haiti is a project founded by Frau Fiber (aka Carole Frances Lung) in 2009 with the hope of helping revitalize Haiti's "defunct" textile industry. Through the project, tailors made a living wage and gave laborers a voice in decision making. Frau and the tailors sold garments made from pepe, secondhand clothing sent to Haiti. Frau logs Made in Haiti's progress on a monthly archive page. The last post was published May, 2012.

ILGWU and the Sewing Rebellion
The Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms is a studio founded by Frau Fiber in 2009 that works as an archive, experimental factory, and research center that supports the efforts of contemporary workers. The ILGWU hosts free weekly sewing workshops and monthly exhibitions and art performances, but utilizes the Sewing Rebellion as its "educational arm." ILGWU's counterpart, the Sewing Rebellion began at Mess Hall in Chicago, IL in 2006. It collaborates with libraries, museums, galleries, and art centers to help educate the general public about the global garment industry and how to "stop shopping and start sewing."

Exhibitions and Performance Art
A full list of Carole Frances Lung's exhibitions can be found at the address below.

https://carolefranceslung.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/carole-frances-lung.pdf