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= Carole Frances Lung = Carole Frances Lung (born in San Francisco, CA 1966) is an American artist, activist, and scholar. Through her other self, Frau fiber, Lung combines interesting activism, cultural criticism, research and spiritual handicrafts, which is a garment production performance. Solve the problem of value and time by completely handmaking and recycling clothes.

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CFLung

Education and Career
Lung's great grandmother was a tailor, her grandmother was a seamstress and accomplished in the art of domestic craft. she was taught by her grandmother to sew her own clothes. she worked as a professional seamstress, cutter, pattern maker, production manager and designer. In 1988, she received a Bachelor's degree in Science, Textiles and Clothing from North Dakota State University. She then moved to New York City to work in fashion design. Lung studied Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and got BFA in 2005 and MFA in 2007. In 2006, during an overseas semester in Weimar, Germany, she studied Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University. There, she engaged in her performance "One Size Fits All". And she has lectured at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Feminism and Co series, Craftivism; Creativity and Ingenuity Symposium, at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, in Deer Isle, and Maine. And she is currently Assistant Professor Department of Art, Fashion and Textile option at California State University Los Angeles.

Her project Sewing Rebellion is a free workshop with a goal of having an economic tactic for change in the apparel industry. It began in the fall of 2006 at The Mess Hall in Chicago, where participants were invited to liberate themselves from the global apparel industry by learning how to alter, tinker with, and make their own clothing and accessories. The Sewing Rebellion disseminates knowledge of the clothing industry, pattern making and sewing, encouraging the reuse, renovation and recycling of existing clothing and textiles to create unique items that fit individual tastes and body shapes. Currently, Sewing Rebels works with community organizations to develop sewing production kits: technical kits, production videos and samples.

Achievements
Lung's performance had been exhibited at Craft and Folk Art Museum (2013), LA CA, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, OTIS College of Art and Design, Sullivan Galleries, Appalachian State University Boone NC, SAIC, Chicago IL, Ben Maltz Gallery, Catherine Smith Gallery, Jane Addams Hull House Museum and the Ghetto Biennale Port Au Prince Haiti. She have publications on Chicago Arts News, American Craft Council: Shaping the Future of Craft, Art in America, and Art Papers. And she have been awarded Craft Creativity and Design Center Grant, CSULA Creative Leave (2014), Creative Mini Grant (2014), Nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany award, and Craft Research Fund - Exhibition Grant (2012).