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Caroline Woolard (born 1984 - ) is an artist and organizer whose work explores intersections between art and the solidarity economy. She primarily works collaboratively and collectively and was a founding member of Trade School, OurGoods, and BFAMFAPhD. Woolard is currently a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design and is an artist in residence at the Queens Museum of Art.
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- Caroline woolard flips the real estate script art21 new york close up
- Artists experiment caroline woolard
- Education
- Career and work
- Awards
- References
Artists experiment caroline woolard
Education
Woolard graduated from Cooper Union, at the time a tuition-free art school in New York with a BFA in 2006.
Career and work
Woolard's work touches on collaboration, barter, real estate, and other forms of monetary and non-monetary exchange. She is very concerned with ways to create sustainable spaces for artists to create their work and have a place to live on what artists make. Woolard sees artists as a growing group of low-income individuals who deal with precarity. Woolard says that she became involved with social practice art not because she was against commercial or institutional art, but instead because she believes the art world is too isolated. Woolard hopes to promote collaboration between artists. She also feels that broadening art classes to those who would not traditionally be able to afford them will expand the world of art for the better. The Trade School that Woolard helped found provides classes which are paid for using barter.
In 2009, Woolard curated a "newspaper exhibition" which highlighted the many economic issues facing workers in the arts.
BFAMFAPhD (a mashed together acronym of BFA, MFA and PhD) was created to raise awareness about those who graduate with creative degrees and who wish to pursue careers in the arts. In addition to these financial concerns, Woolard and the other collaborators highlight problems of ethnic, gender and racial diversity in the art world.
Other works of art that Woolard has created are public seating, urban campsites and swings for subways.
Woolard's Exchange Café was presented at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Department of Education’s Artists Experiment initiative (2013). Woolard's work has been supported by a fellowship at Eyebeam, residencies at the Queens Museum, MacDowell Colony, Watermill, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation's NYC Cultural Innovation Fund.
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