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= Carole Frances-Lung = Carole Frances Lung, born in San Francisco, California on July 8th, 1966, is an artist, soft power activist, and associate professor of Fashion Fiber and Materials at California State University, Los Angeles. Through a range of projects that emphasize skills sharing and sewing instruction, Lung seeks to provide alternatives to purchasing ready-made clothing manufactured under abusive working conditions. Lung’s sewing projects are firmly located within contemporary fiber and social and participatory practices; however, they also belong to a rich historical trajectory of collaborative labor and collective action expressed through sewing.

Inspiration Behind Her Art
As the biographer and archivist for her alter ego Frau Fiber, Carole activates a vocabulary of fashion and textile production and consumption, crafting of one of a kind garments, installations, performances, and social sculpture, paying homage to labor, textile and apparel manufacturing histories and contemporary production systems.

Career and Work
She has lectured at Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Feminism and Co series, Craftivsim; Creativity and Ingenuity Symposium, at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, in Deer Isle, Maine and at the Textile Society of America symposium in Washington DC. Frau Fiber, a character created by Carole, is a textile super hero crafting spirited durational performances, using pedagogical, material and playful approaches to teach communities about the human cost of mass production and consumption. Many of these events take place at Frau Fiber’s store-front headquarters in downtown Long Beach, CA, the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms (ILGWU). Her legacy project is the Sewing Rebellion, a national campaign to “STOP SHOPPING AND START SEWING!” The Rebellion empowers through skill-sharing, facilitates community building, and advocates for social change.

Exhibitions
Fashion-Conscious

Wignall Museum Of Contemporary Art - Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Jan 13,2020 - March 14th, 2020

Re: Working Labor

Sullivan Galleries, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois

September 20th, 2019 - November 27th, 2019

Frau Fiber's Mission In America

Huntington Beach Art Center - Huntington Beach, California

June 15th, 2019 - July 6th, 2019

People's Cloth Trade Show The t-shirt Is the Problem

Helen Day Art Center - Stowe, Vermont

January 22nd, 2016 - April 10th, 2016

Carole Frances Lung: Factory to Factory

John Michael Kohler Arts Center - Sheboygan, Wisconsin

February 22nd, 2015 - October 11th, 2015

Home Economics: Communal Housekeeping For The 21st Century

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art - Rancho Cucamonga, CA

September 8th, 2014 - November 22nd, 2014

Performances and Publications
Her performances have been exhibited at Human Resources LA CA, San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum SJ CA, The Elisabeth Foundation NY NY, LA Municipal Art Gallery LA CA, Wingdall Museum at Chaffee College, Elsewhere Collaborative Greensboro NC, Michener Art Museum Doyelstown PA,Craft in America Study Center LA CA, Jane Addams Hull House Museum Chicago IL, Craft and Folk Art Museum LA CA, Center for Craft Creativity and Design Asheville NC, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland OR, and the Ghetto Biennale Port Au Prince Haiti. Publications include: KCET Artbound, Surface Design Journal, Art in America, and Art Papers.

Awards
United States Artists fellowship

Kohler Arts and Industry Residency

Craft Creativity and Design Center Grant

At the Edge Gallery 400 award

Fred A. Hillbruner Artist Book Fellowship

Faculty Fellow for the Public Good

CSULA creative leave 2014, creative mini grant 2014, 2013