Caroline will be a facilitating a Projects x Platforms workshop during Night School at Yale School of Art on October 10th.

Caroline will talk about ways that she works individually and collectively to build objects as well as networks that prefigure more equitable (art) worlds. From a head made from a mushroom to a national network of art and design cooperatives, Woolard imagines and enacts the impossible.

Caroline will be a guest on the The Alternative Art School's Instagram Live show, "Let's Talk Alternatives" with Nato Thompson on September 3rd at 12 pm EST. 

NEXT Festival presents a curated panel discussion and art history research presentations with special moderator Caroline Woolard!

Join us for a day of talks and workshops on the topic of how (and why) we teach writing and composition in the Fine Arts, hosted by Molly-Claire Gillett and Sandra Huber, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices in the Fine Arts, FoFA, Concordia University.

Writing has always been one step in the future. From emojis to slang to song, writing has momentum, and it is up to us as educators to find ways of moving with it. In the light of current concerns about technology and the changing relevance of traditional writing techniques, how can our assignments and pedagogical investment adapt? 

Fortunately Issue 0 Launch Party

To commemorate the release of Fortunately's inaugural issue, co-founding directors Cierra Michele Peters and Mark Hernandez Motaghy host a conversation with artist-organizer Caroline Woolard, and editor LinYee Yuan of MOLD Magazine and Field Meridians.

Following the discussion, we will have a reception featuring music by subt.le while Fei Liu invites us to play dominoes with a twist. Specialty drinks and copies of the publication will be available.

Author, artist, and organizer, Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement, a founding co-organizer of Art.coop and the CCO of OpenCollective. Join Caroline for her discussion of how artists can form networks of solidarity.

Caroline will present a lecture to ArtEZ students as part of their Practicing Solidarity series.

Caroline will be participating in a panel discussion with Andre Ullrich, Gergana Vladova, and Dave Rejeski at the Symposium in New York City: Critical Stances towards AI. The panel will be discussing the J. Weizenbaum quote, "Certainly no computer can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms," from Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation.

Caroline will present her Solidarity Art Economy Manifesto with TRIGGER Magazine.

Caroline will moderate a panel discussion at Next Frontiers on "Building community and ecological wealth through new investment vehicles" with speakers Nakisha Isengard, Emma Shaw, and Leo Freemann.

Caroline will teach a workshop for the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies Department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.

Caroline will present an artist talk for the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies Department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.

Caroline will teach a master class at the Dutch Art Institute from March 8th - 10th.

Caroline will discuss "Community Tech and the Solidarity Economy" with Nikishka Iyengar.

"This is the first in a series of events for Power to Change and Promising Trouble exploring the intersections of Community Tech with other fields of work and practice. It's part of a range of work that Power to Change are doing to grow the field of Community Tech - from creating new funding programmes to commissioning research. The first in the event series is on Community Tech and the Solidarity Economy and we have two speakers that will be in conversation with Rachel Coldicutt, who’s leading the work for Power to Change, and hosted by Cassie Robinson.

We'll be exploring questions like - what do community tech and the principles and practices of the solidarity economy have in common? What can community tech learn from the solidarity economy? Why should we care about either? And how can the different communities involved in these areas build power together?"

Caroline will discuss "Appropriate Digitalisation - User-Owned and Open-Source" with Nick Weir of Open Food Network as part of Solid Network's online module series, Upskilling Local Food Initiatives.

Caroline will present to the COOP Study Group at the Dutch Art Institute on January 16th from 10:30am-12pm CET.

Caroline Woolard will be a speaker at Doing Better Work Together, an online learning and collaboration event for organizational innovators from November 28th through December 2nd.

Caroline Woolard will give an artist talk to Linnea Paskow's Drawing/Imaging class in the New School's Foundations program.

Join Art.coop co-organizers Nati Linares, Marina Lopez, Sruti Suryanarayanan, and Caroline Woolard for a Q&A on community-control of artistic value in the Solidarity Economy movement.

Caroline Woolard will join Yvon Jadoul, Francesca Martinelli, Rebecca Harvey, and Amrul Hakim in a panel discussion, "Cooperatives in the Creative Sector", moderated by Iñigo Albizuri at the International Cooperative Alliance in Brussels, Belgium.

Caroline Woolard will participate in a panel discussion at AFIELD #3: Let's Share! in Kassel, Germany.

Caroline Woolard will join Santosh Kumar and Francesca Martinelli discussing "Supporting Arts and Safeguarding Culture: Role of Cooperatives as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" and the ICA CCR European Research Conference 2022.

Caroline Woolard will join Njoki Ngumi, Adama Sanneh, Gertrude Flentge, Inland, Fernando Garcia Dory, Peter Kirkhoff Eriksen, Aiwen Yin and Binna Choi in a panel called "Exploring New Models of Care Taking for funding the Ecosystem", moderated by Mi You, Arthur Steiner, and Lauren Agosta. This event will bring together diverse stakeholders in the art ecosystem to reflect on the social value of art and the sustainability of its funding system, and to model a care-taking system for socially-engaged art.

Caroline Woolard will be a 2022 Guest Speaker for the Uncool Artist Self-Organized Network.

In this interview, Caroline Woolard of Art.coop will present ways that artists are working together to build communities and economies that resist exploitation and foster collective action. Did you know work can be joyful and pay the bills, with culture at the center of economic innovation? When artists organize together (across issue-areas), we can win and co-create tailored tools of support, including paid training programs, solidarity financial vehicles like non-extractive loans, and policy platforms in what is known as the Solidarity Economy movement.

Caroline Woolard will be in conversation with Austin Robey of Metalabel to discuss "DAOs and their Analog Translations."

Caroline Woolard, with Art.coop, will give a presentation at Gudskul, organized by ruangrupa.

Caroline will be giving an artist talk to Heather Bhandari's class at Brown Universisty.

Session one, led by Caroline Woolard and Marina Lopez, was devoted to the work of the Art.Coop project “Solidarity Not Charity: Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy.” Marina and Caroline shared what is emerging from their work since publishing this report and conducting co-learning sessions in Fall 2021. Additionally, they invited into the conversation Clara Takarabe and Oihane Amurrio, two Solidarity Economy practitioners who are innovating and embodying the cultural economy we want.

Caroline will join Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Eli Meyerhoff as guests in Shannon Mattern's class at The New School.
"Today we'll examine the history, present, and future of experimental colleges, intentional learning communities, fugitive schools, and other kinds of alter-academies. We’ll consider the various forms they take, their operating models, their core principles and politics, and their sustainability and scalability."

Caroline Woolard and Cassie Thornton discuss how their work as artists led them towards creating and supporting large scale social experiments (sometimes called organizations) that focus on personal, economic, and collective transformation and justice.

Caroline will be in conversation with Luigi Coppola, discussing "Economy & The Commons" at the Royal Institue of Art in Stockholm

Hosted by Eyebeam, Caroline Woolard, with Colin Self, Valencia James, and Stephanie Pereria, discuss Web3, DAOs, and building new models for performance building in the present.

Session one in a series of funder discussions in which presenters and movement organizers share example of projects that make tangible the principles laid out in the GIA-commissioned report, Solidarity Not Charity: Arts & Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy, by Natalia Linares & Caroline Woolard from Art.Coop.

Caroline Woolard will present her work with Art.coop in Camille Barton's class for the Sandberg Institute Ecologies of Transformation program.

Caroline Woolard will give a talk about her practice from 4-5pm at Onomatopee to coincide with her exhibition with Jeffrey Yoo Warren and Aisha Jandosova, A Stone Holds Water.

Caroline Woolard will give a presentation on Art.coop at the Platform Cooperatives Conference at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Convened with artist Caroline Woolard of Art.coop, this seminar brings together cultural cooperatives in a conversation about protocols that build shared political, economic, and cultural power. Computer scientist, game designer, educator, and co-founder of Emma Technology Cooperative Ramsey Nasser leads participants in a collaborative game designed for the seminar.

Caroline Woolard will participate in a panel with Aviv Kruglanski, Kate Rich, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Ana Heras, Āsa Stahl, Gradon Diprose, Heather McClean and Molly Mullen, discussing "Doing Arts-Based Community and Diverse Economies" at Livivana 2021.

Caroline Woolard will speak in a panel at the 2021 GIA Conference with Karen Ristuben, Stratton Lloyd, and Angie Kim discussing "We Do This to Free Us: Artists & the Solidarity Economy".

Caroline Woolard will present a solo exhibition, titled A Stone Holds Water, curated by Freek Lomme, at Onomatopee in Eindhoven, NL from November 6th through December 19th.

Caroline Woolard will participate in a panel at Grantkakers in the Arts discussing "The Creative Power of the Arts: Catalytic Conversations."

Caroline will be teaching a master class called Transparent and Participatory Budgeting at the Kaospilot Institute in Berlin, Germany.

Caroline will be in conversation with Joanna White-Oldham, Bryan Chang, Brian Van Slyke, and Daniel Park in the session, "You Don't Have to be a Starving Artist or a Sell Out," at Worker Co-op Week, a multi-day virtual convening.

Caroline Woolard will be a panelist at the Salzburg Global Seminar discussing "The Creative Power of the Arts: Reimagining Human and Planetary Flourishing."

Caroline Woolard will give an artist talk to Brooke Singer's MFA Arts Pedagogy class at SUNY.

Caroline Woolard with give an Artist Talk presentation to Heather Bhandari's MFA Arts Administration Class at The New School in New York City.

Caroline will be co-presenting with Dr. Manual Pastor and Citlalli Velasquez. This keynote presentation will focus on one of Arts for LA’s four issue areas: Resources & Capital for the arts & culture sector.

Speakers include Zarina Muhammad from The White Pube who recently published Ideas for a New Art World; Caroline Woolard from art.coop who are rewriting the rules for art funding based on solidarity economies, and Farid Rakun and Reza Afisina from ruangrupa, who have announced the principles of Lumbung for documenta15.

Caroline Woolard will participate in a panel discussing "Solidarity Not Charity: Arts & Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy" at the Philadelphia Philanthropy Network.

Presentation with Rashmi Viswanathan  HEKLER Assembly: Infrastructures of Care

Caroline Woolard will lead a workshop for the students at Practice Held in Common with Pascale Gatzen from September 27th-October 1st.

Caroline Woolard will present a lecture for the new members of NEW INC. These sessions give incubator members a path forward sustainable entrepreneurship and help them break down their journey into measurable goals.

Caroline Woolard, with Nati Linares, will discuss "Arts and the Solidarity Economy,” at the Art Students League of New York.

Caroline Woolard will be a Visiting Artist at Haystack in 2021. Details TBA.

Caroline Woolard, with Nati Linares, will co-present "Solidarity Not Charity" at the Los Angeles Arts Coalition.

Caroline Woolard will present a lecture in the context of the Culture for Resilience (C4R) project, at the invitation of Binna Choi. Date to be finalized. The C4R project proposes a holistic approach to resilience using immersive cultural practices and collaborative tools as bridges to increase resilience, diversify modes of involvement in "territorial empowerment" and promote capacity building, creativity and education in peripheral territories. The project has been supported by the EC's Creative Europe - Culture programme (2020-22) and is carried out by a collective of 4 partners:

• Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (FR) urbantactics.org

• Casco Art Institute (NL) casco.art

• Transit.ro (RO) ro.tranzit.org

• Nethood (CH) nethood.org

Binna Choi and Caroline Woolard will present a lecture and two workshops for participants in the Mutual Economies track at the Institute for Radical Imagination. Thursday 20th May, 3:00-4:30pm CET / Strand : Mutual Economies / Guest : Caroline Woolard / Workshop title : Home is Economy, Economy is Home / Faculty : Binna Choi

*Workshop : Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd May, 10:30am-1pm CET

May 18, 4:00 - 5:30pm EST

The Future of Funding -- With Nia K. Evans, Nati Linares, Brendan Martin, Cierra Michele Peters, and Caroline Woolard

RSVP coming soon

Caroline Woolard will be in dialog with Jia Yi Gu in Vanessa Chang's course at the Visual and Critical Studies program at CCA from 7-8:30pm.

Nati Linares and Caroline Wooolard will present their work on Art.coop to the US Solidariry Economy Network at the next USSEN board meeting.

Caroline Woolard will run a webinar with Nati Linares on April 20 from 2:30-3:30pm EST about the Solidarity Economy and cultural work.

Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard will facilitate a workshop at The Bows (formerly Untitled Art Society) for the exhbition, KNOWING/DOING, March 05, 2021 – April 24 ,2021, curated by Alison Cooley, where their work will be on view. 

Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD will present a workshop in Ethics and Labor in Art History, a two-day convening of art history graduate students with the objective of articulating the state of the field, the conditions of our employment, and the ethical transgressions and future directions of the discipline. This convening will be held at the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY).

Caroline Woolard will be a visiting artist in Lisa Brawley's Urban Studies Seminar, "Design, Disability and the Demos: Critical Access Studies and the Right to the City" 

Caroline Woolard and Susan Jahoda, of BFAMFAPhD, will be in a group exhibition with Helah Cooper and Erika DeFreitas called KnowingDoing, curated by Alison Cooley, at The Bows in Calgary, Alberta.

Often the resources we need to make our work are right in our community. The Idea Lab is a simple practice that helps connect artists, designers, craftspeople, and all creative people to share ideas and resources. What happens at the Idea Lab?

• Artists and makers of all kinds meet

• We split into small groups

• Each person shares their challenge for 3 minutes

• The small group brainstorms resources and ideas to meet that challenge for 7 minutes

• The whole group comes together to address any unmet challenges

Whether you need help refining an idea, access to space or equipment, connections to experts in another field, or information about venues for your work, you can find it at an Idea Lab! You will leave with actionable ideas, a better understanding of your challenge, and a new support network.

Nati Linares and Caroline Woolard present their research report, Art.coop, to the Grantmakers in the Arts Board.

I will present my work in Amy Whitaker’s Art & Money course

Caroline Woolard will give a lecture at University of Nebraska – Lincoln School of Art, Art History and Design

Caroline Woolard will be on a panel discussion with Amanda Vincelli and Michael Holt of NAVEL, Nora Khan of Dark Study, and artist Vanessa Kwan at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada.

Caroline will Lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Graduate Seminar, Dartmouth, MA on Nov 24

Caroline will give a talk at the University of Oregon School of Art + Design’s Department of Art for the 2020-21 Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Caroline Woolard will present her work in Claire Pentecost's class at SAIC from 1:30-3:30pm.

Caroline Woolard will give an artist talk in an interview with Kenneth Bailey at The Alternative Art School as part of their visiting artist series.

Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard (Onomatopee, 2020) | Book Launch

About this Event

Join us for a virtual conversation between Artist Caroline Woolard, Book Designer Angela Lorenzo, and Curator of Books at Miriam, Paige Landesberg, as they discuss the process of bringing Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard (Onomatopee, 2020) to life, and offer resources and guidance on publishing art books in the Covid era.  In this part-artist-talk, part-workshop event, we will use Woolard's recent book as a case study to dissect diverse approaches to art book publishing, and intentional decisions that define different book projects, while also helping attendees to discuss and introspect on their own desires and interests related to art book publishing.

This new publication proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished gallery installations. Readers follow the behind-the-scenes work that is required to produce interdisciplinary art projects, from a commission at MoMA to a self-organized, international barter network with over 20,000 participants. With contextual analysis of the political economy of the arts, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the COVID pandemic of 2020, this book suggests that artists can bring studio-based sculptural techniques to an approach to art-making that emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue.

Free PDF: https://book.carolinewoolard.com/

Join us on Zoom for a conversation with artist Caroline Woolard for the launch of Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard (Onomatopee, 2020). This new publication proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished gallery installations. Readers follow the behind-the-scenes work that is required to produce interdisciplinary art projects, from a commission at MoMA to a self-organized, international barter network with over 20,000 participants. With contextual analysis of the political economy of the arts, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the COVID pandemic of 2020, this book suggests that artists can bring studio-based sculptural techniques to an approach to art-making that emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue.

Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard will introduce Making and Being: Embodiment Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts. Making and Being offers a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. Authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two visual arts educators and members of the collective BFAMFAPhD, will share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes.

BFAMFAPhD is a collective that formed in 2012 to make art, reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The work of the collective is to bring people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts. More information is online at: http://bfamfaphd.com

Caroline Woolard is the 2020 Harlan Boss Visiting Artist for Art, Participatory Culture, Social Practice, and Critical Theory at the University of Minnesota, giving a public talk at 6:30pm.

Caroline Woolard will present a solo exhibition, titled A Stone Holds Water, curated by Jaclyn Dooner, at the Miriam Gallery in Brooklyn, New York from October 1st through November 15th.

This artist-led conversation will address how artists can manage a self-sustaining practice amid uncertainty and rapidly changing economic conditions. Amy Smith will moderate the discussion featuring panelists Jae Rhim Lee, Daniel Park, and Caroline Woolard. The conversation will explore ideas from cooperative principles and bartering networks to investment groups and entrepreneurship, and will offer space to imagine new forms in the face of COVID-19.

Jae Rhim Lee

Jae Rhim Lee is a designer, entrepreneur, and transdisciplinary artist whose living units and wearables reimagine basic life systems and propose alternative relationships between the body and the built and natural environment. She is the inventor of the Infinity Burial Suit (aka Mushroom Death Suit) featured in National Geographic, Vogue, NPR, Wired, the New York Times, and TED, among others. She has given keynote lectures and exhibited her work internationally, including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum Design Triennial, Cube Museum Netherlands, FACT Liverpool, the Zero1 Biennial, and others. She is a TED Senior Fellow, the Founder and CEO of venture-backed startup Coeio, Inc, and has taught at MIT, Stanford University, and George Washington University.

Daniel Park

Daniel is a queer, bi-racial, theatre and performance artist based in Philadelphia, co-founder of the worker-cooperative Obvious Agency, and the Project Coordinator with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2014 Daniel has become a leader for radical thought in the local creative ecosystem and has self-produced multiple major works, created commissions for institutions such as the Barnes Foundation and Moore College of Art and Design, taught anti-oppressive creation methodology at the University of the Arts, and collaborated with local companies including The Bearded Ladies, Orbiter 3, and Applied Mechanics. Deeply tied to his artistic practice, Daniel is also an activist and organizer, focusing on racial and labor justice in the cultural sector. He has provided his services as a facilitator and consultant nationally, and working with organizations such as The PA Governor's Commission on Asian American Affairs, ArtPlace America, and Headlong Dance Theatre. Daniel also acts as the membership and engagement coordinator with Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, a community group that brings together folks of pan-Asian descent involved in the performing arts.

Amy Smith

Amy Smith is a dance and theater artist, educator, and facilitator. She works to dismantle oppressive structures in non-profit organizations and other groups so that artists and low income folks can achieve collective liberation. She does this through financial well-being workshops, one-on-one work with clients giving financial advice and doing tax preparation, consulting with arts organizations, co-facilitating anti-racism sessions with co-facilitators of color, and as a dance and theater educator. Amy co-founded, co-directed, and performed with Headlong, a dance theater non-profit that transformed into a community arts organization over 25 years. She left Headlong in 2019 to pursue her freelance work. She leads financial well-being workshops through Creative Capital, Assets for Artists, and in many other settings. She holds a BA from Wesleyan UnIversity and has been greatly affected by her learning as part of artEquity’s National Facilitator Training and other anti-oppression trainings.

Caroline Woolard

Caroline Woolard employs sculpture, immersive installation, and online networks to imagine and enact systems of collaboration and mutual aid. She has co-founded barter networks OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop (2009-2019), BFAMFAPhD.com (2014-present), and the Study Center for Group Work (2015-present) and her work has been commissioned by and exhibited in major national and international museums, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and Creative Time.

After four conversations with special guests over the past month and a half, the hosts of Slow Burning Fire are going to speak with one another about what should come next.

We decided to launch Slow Burning Fire- a series of conversations for the foreseeable future about shaping Cultural Resiliency in COVID and Post-COIVD world. The pandemic has created a necessity to recalibrate our approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time, and particularly from the lens of cultural equity, creative practice, sustainability, education, and the built world. We hope you join us for these conversations.

Rosie Gordon Wallace is a recognized curator, arts advocate, community leader and pioneer in advancing contemporary diaspora art. She founded the Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI) to serve as a local and global laboratory dedicated to promoting, nurturing and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of emerging artists from the Caribbean Diaspora, artists of color, and immigrant artists. Twenty-three years later, DVCAI is recognized as a global resource and one of the region’s leading platforms dedicated to providing diaspora artists with a venue to explore and experiment with new forms and themes that challenge traditional definitions of the Caribbean and Latin American art. DVCAI artists have traveled and engaged in conversations with artists in France, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Antigua, Suriname, and Guadeloupe. In addition to her service on several prominent boards, she is an active member of the PAMM Fund For African-American Art and serves on The Cultural Affairs Council for Miami Dade County, Florida’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Her awards include The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center Third Annual Calabash Amadlozi Visual Arts Award, International Businesswoman of the Year, One of South Florida’s 50 Most Powerful Black Professionals.

Kenneth Bailey started his activism in the early eighties as a teenager, working in his neighborhood for tenants’ rights and decent housing, targeting the St. Louis Housing Authority. He went on to work for COOL, a national campus-based student organizing program, and then moved to Boston where he worked for the Ten Point Coalition, Interaction Institute for Social Change, and Third Sector New England, as well as being on the Board for Resource Generation. Most recently he has been a trainer and a consultant, primarily on issues of organizational development and community building. He first realized the need for a more “designerly” approach to community work while developing parts of the Boston Community Building Curriculum for The Boston Foundation. This workshop asked community activists and residents to think about creative ways to work with their community assets – existing social relationships, individual’s gifts and skills, and untapped local resources. Many community residents remained locked in conventional nonprofit approaches to working with community assets. They weren’t obliged to, they just knew no other way. He realized then that activists needed new tools to redesign approaches for community change, which led him to build a design studio for social activism.

Event Organizers:

Joseph Kunkel, Caroline Woolard, and Sanjit Sethi decided to launch this series of conversations about shaping cultural leadership and resiliency in COVID and Post-COIVD world. The pandemic has created a necessity to recalibrate our approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time, and particularly from the lens of cultural equity, leadership, creative practice, sustainability, education, and the built world. We hope you join us for these conversations.

JUNE 3rd - special guests - Jamie Bennett and Marianna Schaffer on the Future of Philanthropy

Marianna Schaffer has spent over a decade in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors and is currently the Director of Artist Initiatives at Creative Capital, where she serves a key role in cultivating and creating relationships, strategies, outreach, and programs to serve the needs of contemporary artists across all disciplines. Previously, Marianna served as Program Officer at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, where she helped to support individual artists and small arts organizations working at the intersection of arts and social justice, primarily through pioneering initiatives such as the Artist as Activist Fellowship and SEED programs. Before joining Rauschenberg, Marianna was as a member of David Rockefeller Sr.’s philanthropic team for over a decade, rising to become the Director of Programs at the David Rockefeller Fund, where she was responsible for day-to-day operations and grantmaking focused on arts access and engagement, criminal justice reform, and climate change advocacy. She is a Master of International Education from New York University, a B.A. in Social & Global Studies from Antioch College and is an active member of her Harlem community.

Jamie Bennett is the executive director of ArtPlace America, a ten-year fund that supports artists working as allies in equitable community development. ArtPlace has invested over $100 million to support projects in rural, suburban, tribal, and urban communities of all sizes across the United States, as well as in sharing knowledge from that work in ways that are useful – and actually used – by practitioners. ArtPlace convenes and connects people who are committed to this work in order to help build a strong and ongoing field of practice. Previously, Jamie worked at the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Agnes Gund Foundation, Columbia University, The Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Philharmonic. He currently lives, works, worships, and plays in Brooklyn, NY, and has been sober since 2009.

Event Organizers:

Joseph Kunkel, Caroline Woolard, and Sanjit Sethi decided to launch this series of conversations about shaping cultural leadership and resiliency in COVID and Post-COIVD world. The pandemic has created a necessity to recalibrate our approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time, and particularly from the lens of cultural equity, leadership, creative practice, sustainability, education, and the built world. We hope you join us for these conversations.

May 20th - special guest - Jamie Blosser on the Artists' Role in the Built Environment / The Arts at Moments of Change

Jamie Blosser, an architect, has based her practice on issues of equity, resilience, and participatory processes. She completed a Loeb Fellowship in 2015 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and served as an AIA delegate for the UN-Habitat III convening in Quito in October 2016. Jamie was the Director of the Santa Fe office of AOS Architects for 10 years. Her community design work with Ohkay Owingeh, a Pueblo tribe in Northern New Mexico, led to a revitalization of their historic plaza area and has been published in several magazines and books.

Event Organizers:

Joseph Kunkel, Caroline Woolard, and Sanjit Sethi decided to launch this series of conversations about shaping cultural leadership and resiliency in COVID and Post-COIVD world. The pandemic has created a necessity to recalibrate our approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time, and particularly from the lens of cultural equity, leadership, creative practice, sustainability, education, and the built world. We hope you join us for these conversations.

Caroline Woolard will be in a digital group exhibition called "PDF Objects: Shelter in Place" curated by Jason Lazarus. 

Initiated in 2016 by Florida-based artist Jason Lazarus and New York-based artist Sean Ward, PDF-OBJECTS is a growing collection of embedded text-object sculptures. Conceived in partnership with Mana Contemporary, Shelter in Place will be the first PDF-OBJECTS exhibition without a physical installation.

Participating artists are asked to submit a single PDF of a text that significantly informs their practice, along with a description of a commonly available object (valued at $20 or less), and instructions on how to sculpturally embed the PDF and object together.

PDF-OBJECTS is an invitation into each artist’s thinking and practice—an embodied library, a sculptural field—each object a footnote to the text, or vice versa. The design of the project encourages new moments of scholarship, pedagogy, and intimacy between artist and audience. Participating artists are able to update their PDF-OBJECTS at any time in order to reflect their current research and practice.

May 13th - special guest - Sarah Workneh on options for the future of Arts Education

In 2020, Sarah Workneh will mark 10 years as Co-Director at Skowhegan. Prior to her tenure, Sarah was the Associate Director of Ox-Bow for 9 years. Primarily focused on the educational program, and off-season programming with Alumni, Sarah leads all efforts to support artists in the expansion of their practices. Understanding the holistic nature of the program, Sarah oversees the admissions process, facilities usage and expansion under Skowhegan’s Master Plan, as well as the educational daily life on campus. Sarah has published a variety of texts -- most recently an essay on participatory education and a catalog essay on radical education published by the New Museum. She serves on the boards of Colby College Museum of Art, RAIR in Philadelphia, and the Somerset County Cultural Planning Commission. She is currently partnering with Linda Goode Bryant & Project Eats to convert an urban farm to a food pantry in Brownsville, NYC.

Event Organizers:

Joseph Kunkel, Caroline Woolard, and Sanjit Sethi decided to launch this series of conversations about shaping cultural leadership and resiliency in COVID and Post-COIVD world. The pandemic has created a necessity to recalibrate our approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time, and particularly from the lens of cultural equity, leadership, creative practice, sustainability, education, and the built world. We hope you join us for these conversations.

Caroline Woolard will give a short talk and lead an activity at The Art World Conference from 4:45pm - 5:30pm on Saturday, May 2, 2020. This is organized by Heather Darcy Bhandari, author of ART/WORK. 

Exact time TBA. Caroline Woolard will participate in a panel discussion about sustaining a life as an artist today. Details forthcoming.

Caroline Woolard is in a group exhibition that opens April 5th from 2-5pm and runs through August 16th

Twelve mostly New York-based artists ruminate on life and property, art’s vexed role in gentrification, and the impact of race on having a home. Some combine sculpture and photographic media into hybrid objects such as a stripped-down construction backhoe with talking video screens or a 47-foot-long digital image of tread tracks in mud woven on a Jacquard loom. Invoking the desire to dig, to build, to possess and dispossess, these works also suggest that the rapid and visible change in New York neighborhoods—both in terms of who can live where and the built environment itself—goes far back in time and far into the future. From a beloved art-world figure who lived as a perpetual guest to an artist’s mother performing her preparations for a visit from her realtor, portraits of individuals emerge on video, embodying the complexity of living within and without property in the digital age. Under the central skylight, a crackling video fire is surrounded by elegant seating, while a house has seemingly sunk into the museum’s atrium with only its roof remaining above the floor, suggesting both refuge and play, apocalypse and daily desperation. Whether satirical, speculative or grounded in the work of organizing, the works in the exhibition also suggest ways of resisting the reach of capital into our homes, and innermost lives.

The Plaster Foundation was what artist, filmmaker, and luminary of the underground Jack Smith called the SoHo loft where he lived and performed. After his eviction in 1971, Smith injected frequent references to rent, “landlordism,” and even something known as “claptailism” into the titles and scripts of many subsequent works. Smith’s eviction took place as the twinned processes of deindustrialization and reinvestment into FIRE (finance, investment, real estate) started in earnest in New York, leading to outcomes visible and tangible in the city today. Although first, perhaps, a play on the grant-making organizations Smith both depended on and was vocally contemptuous of, “plaster foundation” is also a building metaphor, with failure built in.

Artists include Jennifer Bolande, Ilana Harris-Babou, Heather Hart, Simon Leung, Shawn Maximo, Museum of Capitalism, Sondra Perry, Douglas Ross, Peter Scott, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Caroline Woolard, and Betty Yu.

After the Plaster Foundation is organized by Larissa Harris, Curator, with Sophia Marisa Lucas, Assistant Curator, and Lindsey Berfond, Assistant Curator, Exhibitions & Public Programs.

Caroline Woolard is the 2020 Harlan Boss Visiting Artist for Art, Participatory Culture, Social Practice, and Critical Theory at the University of Minnesota from March 30th - April 3rd. She will give a lecture on Thursday, April 2nd.

Caroline Woolard and Ombud Don Greenstein will lead the session "The Meeting Game" at The International Ombuds Conference 2020 in Portland, Oregon, with the theme Vision 2020: Innovation, Importance, and Integrity in Ombuds Work. Don will explain how to use objects to facilitate difficult conversations, and his experiences bringing The Meeting Game to communities at Brandeis University. Exact time TBA.

Caroline Woolard will have an exhibition at the Granoff Center Atrium Gallery. Mar 30 - Apr 19 Mon - Fri, 9:00 am - 9:00 pm, Sat - Sun, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm FREE Atrium Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.

Caroline Woolard will lead a workshop on artist-run businesses / structures for Creative Capital grantees from 6-9pm.

A public conversation with Public Action Fellows Aaron Landsman and Caroline Woolard.

Details TBA.

Caroline Woolard, the 2019-20 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence, presents a talk in the space of her Rose project INDEX: The Meeting.

Caroline Woolard's new work will open at the Rose Art Museum for INDEX on Friday the 7th of February, from 3-5pm.

Caroline Woolard will perform in Athena Kokoronis's work at the Judson Church.

Athena Kokoronis is an artist living and working in New York since 2005. Domestic Performance Agency (DPA) is the name and space of Kokoronis' current choreographic process that gives attention to aspects of performance production, curation, food, cloth, and searches for the creative economy within these realms that begins and extends out of domestic scale with hospitality.

About Movement Research: A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-process. Free; no reservations required Doors open at 7:30

Caroline Woolard and Susan Jahoda will facilitate a 90 minute hands-on workshop at Rhode Island School of Design to explore questions that are part of our active inquiry at Making & Being.

What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes?

Stacey Salazar in dialog with Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe of BFAMFAPhD.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

Join Director of the DePaul Labor Education Center, Jessica Cook-Qurayshi, and artist Caroline Woolard to learn how to negotiate a union contract using sculptural tools and bargaining skills. You will be placed on teams who find themselves in the middle of negotiations for a new union contract. You will learn how to make proposals, deliberate, and work with sculpture tools while you are supported by union members and artists. Space is limited to 20 participants. Please RSVP with subject heading “RSVP FOR OCTOBER 11” to CarolineWoolard@gmail.com and confirm that you can be there for the entire three hours, from 2-5pm on Friday the 11th. Gather at 2pm in the installation that Caroline Woolard has created in the Sullivan Galleries (33 S. State St., 7th floor) for the exhibition Re:Working Labor.

Caroline Woolard will give a talk to the Fibers Department at SAIC.

Caroline Woolard's work has been commissioned for the New School Centennial Exhibition, curated by Anna Harsanyi and Macushla Catherine Robinson, New York, NY, July 12 – October 6, 2019.

Exhibition opens: July 12th

Closing reception: October 5th, time TBA 

September 27, 2019, 11:30am–1:30pm at the Lee Gallery (Rose Art Museum) Members of the Brandeis community are invited to join artist Caroline Woolard for a working lunch and to learn more about her project at the Rose, The Meeting Game (2019–ongoing). Combining the formal language of sculptural practice with tools and techniques used for group facilitation, The Meeting Game rewrites the conventional meeting format to investigate new systems for collaboration and cooperation. Woolard’s project—the inaugural presentation within the Rose’s new INDEX initiative—designates the Lee Gallery as a space for generative dialogue and prompts participants to explore more open, aware, and intentional exchanges.

September 26, 2019, 3–5pm at the Rose Art Museum (Lee Gallery)

With facilitation from Caroline Woolard and Donald Greenstein, Brandeis University Ombuds, invited student groups will have an urgent conversation using sculptural objects. The Meeting Game, developed by artist Caroline Woolard with feedback from United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives, is a playful experience that exists so that people can become more aware of the flow of dialog in any conversation. In the game, participants roll a ball that corresponds to a way of speaking: initiating a new topic, responding, or noticing connections. The game will be refined and altered by students over the course of the fall and winter, in dialog with artists and with the Brandeis University Ombuds.

Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard will share practices from their forthcoming book, Making and Being, with MassArt Studio Foundation faculty from 10am -  noon.

Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard will share practices from their forthcoming book, Making and Being, with MassArt Studio Foundation faculty from 10am -  noon.

Re: Working Labor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (curated by Ellen Rothenberg and

Daniel Eisenberg), September 20 - December 14, 2019.

As the 2019–20 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence, Woolard draws upon the formal and spatial languages of conflict mediation to transform the Lee Gallery into a platform for self-initiated and facilitated group discussions. The Meeting launches the first iteration of INDEX, a new initiative at the museum. Housed in the Lee gallery, bi-annual projects by INDEX artists will produce site-responsive and participatory platforms and programs. Like a book’s index, the project serves not only to list but also to reorganize, cross-reference, and establish new relationships to content. INDEX at the Lee Gallery is a place where people and ideas merge in a collective manner.  

Caroline Woolard will give a public lecture for her Fellowship at Moore. 

Exhibition Closing Reception: 5–7 pm
Artist Talk with Caroline Woolard: 7–8 pm

This event is part of our ongoing Conversations@Moore public program series, organized by Moore's Graduate Studies programs in Socially Engaged Art. The Galleries at Moore are located at 1916 Race Street, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Moore College of Art & Design: 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Caroline Woolard will facilitate a workshop for faculty and staff at Moore from 2:30-4:00pm who want to study the critique process so that it might become more equitable and inclusive. Moore writes: "The critique process at Moore College of Art & Design is a defining feature of art and design education for all majors and programs. It is important that as an institution we focus on support and training for faculty that helps to prepare them to facilitate conversations that can foster an equitable and inclusive learning environment. In addition, it is critical that we teach students how to best use the critique form as a way of learning through collaboration, communication and reflection. It should be noted that while this process focused on critiques, there was also attention given to other forms of culminating evaluation moments such as presentations in liberal arts and art education courses."

August 10 - December 1

Opening Auguest 10th from 6-8pm

Curated by Paige Landesberg with support from Leigh Claire La Berge and Caroline Woolard

“There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.” – Lauren Berlant

A Guide to the Field presents Phallacies, a show about sex, possibility and power. Featuring a set of designed sexual objects as well as sexually designed objects, Phallacies seeks to join art practice with sexual practice. The show presents a collection of crotchless underwear by Morgan Puett and Abby Lutz, toys for sex that encourage vulnerability by Dame Products, and works by Gina Siepel, Mattew Solomon, Caroline Woolard, and artists to be announced. If a phallacy is a portmanteau that links the phallus with a masculine reason gone awry, then this show allows space for the emergence, in the words of designers Alex Fine and Janet Lieberman, of potential cliteracies.

Caroline Woolard will have a solo exhibiton on view at Moore College of Art and Design from August 3 through September 21, 2019. The closing reception will be held on 9/12/2019.

Leigh Claire La Berge, Caroline Woolard, and Or Zubalsky will present Marx for Cats, a lecture that explores questions of animals and animality in relationship to Marxism, economic history and contemporary art. The lecture will be followed by a dinner and general festivities at Mildred's Lane. Come early for a tour, stay late for a dance party.

Marx for Cats @ Mildred’s Lane, July 29-Aug 3

Marx for Cats is a week long session at Mildred’s Lane, running from Monday July 29 through Sunday, Aug. 4. Taking its inspiration from the artwork/website Marxforcats.com (see below) this session is run by Leigh Claire La Berge, Caroline Woolard, and Or Zubalsky, and explores questions of animals and animality in relationship to Marxism, economic history and contemporary art. Each day will feature a reading an Marx, animality and art, and will culminate in an activity or demonstration relating to the topics covered in the reading. We will likewise address queer animals, animals and disability, Marx and climate. Additional guest visitors are to be announced.

Join members of the art collective BFAMFAPhD to play a card game about collaboration and circulation in the visual arts and to learn about their forthcoming book for artists and arts educators, Making and Being (Pioneer Works / DAP, 2019). 

The Brooklyn Art Book Fair is organized by Endless Editions with the mission of championing the work of underrepresented artists in an accessible public space (it is held at McCaren Park). BFAMFAPhD will be on the pool deck from 1-2, and the fair goes until 6pm.

Join members of the art collective BFAMFAPhD to play a card game about collaboration and circulation in the visual arts and to learn about their forthcoming book for artists and arts educators, Making and Being (Pioneer Works / DAP, 2019). 

Caroline Woolard will open her studio from 1-2pm for a visit from the Vera List Center (VLC). Eriola Pira, the VLC's recently appointed curator, will take us on a private tour on Saturday, June 15, 2019, to explore organizations, artists' studios, and the growing artistic community in South Brooklyn. Attached is a detailed itinerary. VLC Field Trips offer an opportunity to engage deeply with the cultural, social and political context of art events or, in this case, a neighborhood, and to support the vital work of local institutions and the VLC. This opportunity is offered exclusively to friends and supporters of the Vera List Center and is free of charge. Space is limited, and your RSVP is requested to vlc@newschool.edu by June 10. If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Emily Donnelly at vlc@newschool.edu. 

How might arts educators gather together to develop, share, and practice pedagogies that foster collective skills and values?

Facilitators: Members of the Pedagogy Group.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

Workshop with BFAMFAPhD for Culture Push on May 11 -- details TBD

Caroline Woolard will participate in the Art World(s) Conference with Deana Haggag, Mickalene Thomas, Melissa Levin, Titus Kaphar, and a representative from the Artist Rights Society, organized by Dexter Wimberly and Heather Bhandari.

Panel: You As Gatekeeper -- Defining Goals and Initiating Opportunities Facilitator: Paddy Johnson Participants: Sharon Louden, Alex Paik, Prerana Reddy, Caroline Woolard

Artists should not wait for others to set their goals and offer them opportunities. Because there is no one path to take, many artists today are redefining what a successful career looks like. Artist-led initiatives are proliferating and social practice is changing the structure and focus of institutions across the country. Paddy Johnson will facilitate a discussion that includes goal setting and notions of value and labor. Participants will identify real-world examples of artists taking the lead.

What group agreements are necessary in gatherings that occur at residencies, galleries, and cultural institutions today?

With Sarah Workneh, Laurel Ptak, and Danielle Jackson.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

Caroline Woolard will present in Sheetal Prajapati's class Artist as Educator for SVA MFA Fine Arts students.

Caroline Woolard and Susan Jahoda will offer a workshop for Wesleyan faculty from 3-5pm.

April 12, 2019, 1:00­–3:00 p.m. 

The Heim Center, Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Can a water clock, a blue-foam head, and a glass tooth interrupt the unavoidable antagonisms of working together? Visual artist Caroline Woolard, the inaugural Walentas Fellow at Moore College of Art and Design, will facilitate a workshop on socially engaged art during the opening weekend celebration for the Reimagined Parkway Central Library. Workshop participation is limited to students, faculty, and staff of Moore College, though members of the public are welcome and encouraged to observe. Woolard’s project at the Free Library will culminate in a permanent installation of lending objects in the new Heim Center for Cultural and Civic Engagement.

What practices might we develop to honor the departure of a project?  For example, where do materials go when they are no longer of use, value, or interest?

With Millet Israeli and Lindsay Tunkl.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

Caroline Woolard will present and do studio visits at the Dirt & Debt residency at Residency Unlimited.

How do artists ensure that their individual and collective needs are met in order to dream, practice, work on, and return to their projects each day?

With Adaku Utah and Taraneh Fazeli.

This event will be held at 151 West 30th Street  # Suite 403, New York, NY 10001.

The building entrance, elevators, and 4th floor restrooms have no steps and are fully wheelchair accessible. If you require additional assistance upon arrival, please ring the buzzer outside and someone can come down to help you.

Parking in the vicinity is free after 6 PM. The closest MTA subway station is 23rd and 8th Ave off the C and E. This station is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are 1/2/3/A/C/E 34th Street-Penn Station and the 14 St A/C/E station with an elevator at northwest corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue. Nearby Subways include the 1,2,3, A, C, and E trains at Penn Station on 34th St, and the B, D, F M, Q, ad R trains at Herald Square on 34th at 6th Ave.  Both of these stations are wheelchair accessible.

What if the organization of labor was integral to your project?

With members of Meerkat Filmmakers Collective and Friends of Light.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

BFAMFAPhD is a collective of artists, designers, technologists, organizers, and educators who work in the intersection of art, technology, and political economy.

Short Workshop description: This workshop focuses on the power of collaborative and contemplative pedagogy when teaching art. The workshop activities, attunements, individual agreements, group agreements and asset mapping, are featured in Making and Being: a Guide to Embodiment, Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts, a multi-platform pedagogical project of practices and analyses for artists.

BFAMFAPhD is part of a panel with Jeff Kasper, Chloe Bass, and Gregory Sholette from Art as Social Action from 2-3pm.

How do artists create contexts for encounters with their projects that are aligned with their goals?

A conversation between Linda Goode-Bryant, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and Salome Asega, facilitated by Kemi Ilesanmi.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

BFAMFAPhD is hosting a workshop for the residents of SHIFT at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.

Caroline Woolard will present to Thyrza Goodeve's class in MFA Fine Arts at SVA from 5-6pm.

What modes of critique might foster racial equity in studio art classes at the college level?

With Billie Lee and Anthony Romero of the Retooling Critique Working Group and Eloise Sherrid, filmmaker, The Room of Silence.

At Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop 548 West 22nd Street.

The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.

MarxforCats.com at the Domestic Performance Agency 

On behalf Leigh Claire La Berge, Caroline Woolard, and Or Zubalsky, Domestic Performance Agency is pleased to invite you to a dinner and screening of Marx for Cats, a new video platform in which La Berge, a professor of political economy, explains key concepts from Marx to a group of (somewhat) interested cats.

The dinner will feature a multi-course menu based on the changing fortunes of food under industrial capitalism, from the denigration of wheat to the monopolization of corn and soy, to the haunting prospect of the dominance of the mass-produced chicken. Our diets are closer to cats’ diets than we realize!

We ask attendees to donate some of the monetized fruits of their labor to the Domestic Performance Agency; we suggest donations in the range of: $25 to $100. The cats and the cook are unpaid.  

Space is limited; please RSVP to domesticperformanceagency@gmail.com by Dec. 1

Through the month of December, Domestic Performance Agency (DPA) will host a number of special performances which will be housed inside the DPAShop installation that runs through winter Solstice. For more details, list of contributors, and shop hours visit: www.domesticperformanceagency.com

Caroline Woolard will deliver a keynote at the Suburban School Superintendents conference.

Caroline Woolard will be part of the panel “Does Education Define an Artist?” as part of an exhibition of self-taught artists at Tufts University Art Gallery, organized by Liz Canter and Abby Satinksky.  

Caroline Woolard will speak to Amanda Leigh Evans' class.

“Unlearning Learning” with BFAMFAPHD and Maria Rosa Sossai

Art in General
145 Plymouth Street (Map)
Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Unlearning Learning, the first event of this season, will consider the relationship between art and education, which lies at the heart of the entire series. Artist collective BFAMFAPHD and researcher Maria Rosa Sossai will consider how art and pedagogy can become tools for understanding the relations of power that shape institutions and practices, but also allow us to imagine new approaches to art and education. As practitioners who have developed workshops, teaching tools, and artworks that blur the boundary between art and educational practices, they will use this event to not simply speak about this subject, but also to activate some of their ideas.

Caroline Woolard will present her work at the symbposium Re:working Labor, jointly sponsored by re:work, IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Institute of Curatorial Research and Practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Opening October 6th: Encampment. With David Brooks / Jorge Colombo / Barbara de Vries / Mark Dion / Hope Ginsburg / Leila Gordon / Gary Graham / Brooke Grant / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex A. Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Abby Lutz / Kristyna & Marek Milde / J. Morgan Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Gina Siepel / Shelley Spector / Allison Smith / Caroline Wallner / Allison Ward / Natalie Wilkin / Caroline Woolard / Amy Yoes // A Guide to the Field: Storefront Practices in the Social Realm, a new project gallery by J. Morgan Puett and Abby Lutz, exhibits and sells socially and politically sensitive artworks, textiles, sculpture, clothing, furniture – fine art in the everyday – set in topic-driven installations (Swarmings) by artists working in the social sphere. Encampment, A Guide to the Field’s inaugural installation, offers visual and functional conversations around living in an ever-migratory society. Visitors will experience a storefront apartment environment, where artist's works are responses to one's daily activities of clothing, cooking, cleaning, making, playing, resting, and thinking/being.

Opening: Saturday, October 6th, 2018, 12-8pm. 2 Post Hill Road and Main Street / Mountaindale, NY 12763 There is a Coach Short Line bus traveling from NYC’s Port Authority to Mountaindale. A Guide to the Field: Storefront Practices in the Social Realm 2 Post Hill Road and Main Street / Mountaindale, NY 12763 www.aguidetothefield.com / Instagram: @aguidetothefield

The Center for Student Involvement at the Rhode Island School of Design has invited Caroline Woolar do lead the first session of the 2018/2019 year as a part of our RISD Leads Series on Radical Pedagogies: Critical Communal Learning and Teaching. Details TBD

Don't Try to Boil the Ocean, curated by Joe Bun Keo, a group exhibition at ArtSpace Hartford, 555 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT 06105 --- Opening Reception: 9/8 from 6-10pm

Caroline Woolard, Helen Lee, and Lika Volkova will create an immersive installation as the final iteration of their multi-year project, Carried on Both Sides. Carried on Both Sides: Encounter Three will be on view at the Knockdown Center from August 30 - November 4, 2018. For more information on this project, see: http://CarriedOnBothSides.com

Art21 documentary: https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-up/caroline-woolards-floating-possibility/

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 30 6-9PM

LOCATION: Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn CampusDATE(s)August 28, 2018 at 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMDETAILS

Please join us to see what our inaugural PROJECT THIRD residents have been working on this summer!

ARTISTS: Susan Jahoda, Emilio Martinez Poppe, and Caroline Woolard

EXHIBITION: Large-scale printed pages from a single chapter in the visual arts collective BFAMFAPhD’s forthcoming book, Making and Being, which offers practices of collaboration, contemplation, and social-ecological analysis for visual artists. Their summer writing studio and office, including a shared, year-long calendar, books, and administrative files are visible at one end of the gallery. Visitors are invited to use the markers and pens in the space to add ideas, questions, and comments to the pages on the wall.

BFAMFAPhD (Susan Jahoda, Emilio Martinez Poppe, and Caroline Woolard), is a collective that employs visual and performing art, policy reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The work of the collective is to bring people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts.

ACCESS TO PRATT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Pratt strives to make all programs, services and activities accessible, and will provide assistance to accommodate any individuals with disabilities. Security personnel, located at booths at 200 Willoughby Avenue and other campus locations, are available for assistance. Additional accessibility resources are available at pratt.edu/accessibility 

Caroline Woolard will be an Artist in Residence at Ox-bow, meeting with Fellows and giving a lecture during her stay from August 5 - 11th.

In conjunction with the Alchemy exhibition, this panel discussion between exhibition artist Anna Riley, art historian Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie of the Making & Knowing Project, poet Leonard Nalenz of Project 404, and D. Graham Burnett of The Order of the Third Bird, to discuss new and innovative ways of experiencing/producing knowledge. The panel will be moderated by the visual artist Caroline Woolard.

Caroline Woolard and Leigh Claire La Berge present their latest work to Fellows at the Mildred's Lane archaeology session from 12-1pm.

I will be in residence at Pratt Institute for the months of July and August, hosting public programs and an exhibition with Emilio Martinez Poppe and Susan Jahoda about our pedagogical project, Ways of Being, at the invitation of Jane South, Chair of Fine Arts. 

Caroline Woolard will be the Artist in Residence for Session 2 at Pilchuck from May 28 - June 15th  2018. Pilchuck’s Artist in Residence mission is to invite accomplished artists/designers/creative thinkers such as yourselves to experiment with glass. Part of our mission is to  introduce artists with little or no familiarity of the material and techniques so that they will experience the residency as a time to investigate new approaches and include / expand the material within the vocabulary and context of their work.  For the Pilchuck students and participants the Artists in Residence bring much to the campus learning experience; different approaches and unique interrogations of the material are valuable for all.

Caroline Woolard and Leigh Claire La Berge will be AIRs at the Museum of Glass from May 23-27th, with 5 days of work in our world-class Hot Shop with a three-person team, live streaming from the Hot Shop.

The symposium will take place on Monday, May 14th at the ICP Museum, followed by a reception at Eyebeam's new space in Bushwick. The symposium will consist of short dialogues, panel discussions (How to See; How to Be Seen; How to Hide; How to Build), and a keynote address. The program will feature a number of Eyebeam alums as well as members of our current residency cohort. 

Caroline Woolard will lead the final conversation of the day, How to Build. This closing conversation will serve as a call to action following the robust day of discourse and focus on individual projects. How do we actually move toward a more just future? What are our biggest challenges and what can we learn from each other's practices? How can we build something sustainable together? 

Caroline Woolard will present a workshop with Susan Jahoda and Emilio Martinez Poppe from their forthcoming book, Ways of Being. Open Engagement will be held on May 11-13 at the Queens Museum and a host of other sites throughout New York City. Advanced registration is required to attend and handled via Eventbrite. Registration will be live in March 2018.

Caroline Woolard will be interviewed by students from Mozarteum, Salzburg (Austria) for Prof. Gregor Neuerer's class.

Caroline Woolard will present in Danielle Jackson's class Imaging Change: Global Arts and Social Change at Stanford.

Caroline Woolard will present at MoneyLab, an exploration of critical responses to the ongoing financial crises. Through workshops, talks and panel discussions, “Matters of Currency” will shed new light on money- power relations as mirrored in changing relations to technological and material transformations in the world today. Confirmed Speakers: Jason Moore, Terra0, Cassie Thornton, Max Haiven, Fran Illich, Gabriela Ceja, Patricia de Vries, Leigh Claire La Berge, Caroline Woolard, Brett Scott, and Caitlin Blanchfield

Caroline Woolard will present her work in a lecture hosted by the Visual Art Department at Brown University. Details forthcoming.

Caroline Woolard and Leigh Claire La Berge will present their work at UMass Dartmouth.

Caroline Woolard
She Wolves, Water Clocks, & Collective Networks
March 30th, 11:30am
CVPA Room 356

Wave Pool and the Contemporary Art Center have been working with New York-based artist Caroline Woolard to create a set of “listening objects” for 4 local organizations for a year. Each listening object has been made in direct response to the desires of these organizations. Woolard is partnering with MORTAR and Cincy Stories, CUCI, and Heartfelt Tidbits. The finished pieces will live with these organizations as well as in a common space where the public can interact with them and use them as well as learn more about the project and the 4 organizations involved. The project is  scheduled to be debuted at the neighborhood summit in March 2018 with a presentation by Woolard.

Caroline Woolard will participate in a weekend  convening at the Corcoran School of Art and Design from the evening of Friday, March 2 to the early afternoon of Sunday, March 4. This will build upon and extend conversations on socially and civically engaged creative practices that were begun at another weekend convening that Woolard attended with Ruby Lerner, Sanjit Sethi, Rober Ransick, Charles Crowell, Alexis Frasz, Yoko Inoue, Angie Kim, Lauren Ruffin, Susan Sgorbati, Anne Thompson, David Zicarelli, Jun-Li Wang, at Bennington College in the fall.

Time: 02/24/2018: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 408A

Chair: Dushko Petrovich, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“The Artist-Journalist and the Immediacy of Alternative Electronic Media”
Randall Packer, Nanyahg Technological University

“Recovering Radicality: Instrumentalization and Video in the 1980s”
Liz Kim, Texas Woman’s University

“Sharing Practices of Listening, Attention, and Group Work in the Visual Arts”
Caroline Woolard, University of Hartford

Caroline Woolard will present at a symposium organized by Andrew Weiner called Human Capital.

Caroline Woolard will speak to Thyrza Nichols Goodeve's SVA MFA Art Practice students from 1-2pm at LMAK: 298 Grand Street New York, NY 10002 Phone: 212 255 9707 Email: info(at)lmakgallery.com

Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahodda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe will be doing a workshop for Sharon Hayes' Art & Resistance class from 1:30-4:30pm, and a Risograph workshop with a founder of Ulises, Kayla Romberger, for "Intro to Independent Publishing" at UPenn. 

Caroline Woolard is presenting her work to Judith Leemann's Critique Practices class.

Caroline Woolard's Capitoline Wolves will be on view at LMAK from January 19 - February 25, with an opening party on Friday, January 19th from 6-8pm.

Caroline Woolard will present on a panel with Ahmed Mater, Carmen Montoya, and Allison Smith. The aim is to discuss different examples of the transformative ways art and creativity can be a catalyst for cross-cultural understanding and to effect meaningful change in communities. It will also act as a platform for future cross-cultural collaborations and act as a catalyst for such work.

Retooling Critique Symposium at Mass Art, with private and public convenings from Nov 16th - 18th, 2017. Participants and presenters include: Anthony Romero, Adelheid Mers, Judith Leemann, and Billie Lee.

From November 4 - December 17, 2017, Caroline Woolard, Helen Lee, Alexander Rosenberg, and Lika Volkova will present Carried on Both Sides: Encounter One, at Lesley Heller gallery. Opening Reception from 6-8pm.

Art Center Nabi presents the exhibition Neotopia: Data and Humanity. The artworks utilizing ‘data’ from various fields of the society, culture, politics, economics present the ‘more humane society’. The exhibition includes the artworks from international media artist teams. 

For Maayan Strauss' project at Recess Art, she has invited Caroline Woolard to give a presentation on her work.

Pioneer Works, Creative Time, and the Yes Men are proud to announce WTF Do We Do Now?, a one-day gathering with open forums, town hall meetings, and small-group dialogues. Sunday, October 15, 2017 from 10am - 7pm at
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street in Brooklyn. More info here.

Caroline Woolard will present at the 2017 Robert M. Minkoff Foundation Academic Symposium organized by UrbanGlass but held at St. Francis College on Friday, October 14th - from 3-4 pm. Location: St. Francis College first-floor auditorium at 180 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights.

Caroline Woolard will present to MFA Design and Technology students at the New School in a course led by Ed Keller and Melanie Crean called Design for this Century from 12-1:30pm.

How can we support ourselves and each other? This workshop looks at the ways in which we meet our needs for wellbeing in order to dream, practice, and work on any project. Support extends beyond the life of our projects, often shaping the ways in which we navigate the contradictions of living and working on independent projects. Join us for a “brain massage” and mutual connection.

3-5pm at Spaceworks @ Williamsburgh Library, 240 Division Ave, Fl 2 Brooklyn, NY

http://studycollaboration.com/#support

For 24 September, Caroline Woolard will be liturgist and teach us about amulets and eyes at the Judson Church.  

Souvenirs: New New York Icons ​, opening on September 16th, 2017 at the Storefront for Art and
Architecture gallery in New York.

We gather to explore the creation of an open-source model of learning. Presenters / Participants include: Alexis Frasz, Angie Kim, Ruby Lerner, Lauren Ruffin, Sanjit Sethi, Carol Stakenas, and Ju-Lin Wang.

Caroline Woolard, Helen Lee, Alexander Rosenberg, and Lika Volkova talk about their project, Carried on Both Sides, and their research in relationship to the Greek and Roman collection at The Met.

Caroline Woolard is a faculty mentor in this intensive studio residency, hosted by SVA’s MFA Fine Arts Department, which has been designed for artists working in cross-platform, non-disciplinary practices that aim for the intersection of art and ideas.

What role can art play in effecting social and political change? Should artists deploy cultural strategies as political strategies? In this panel discussion, we’ll consider the role of the artist as activist, examining the responsibility of artists as global citizens, ethical concerns for social practice projects, reactivity vs. proactivity, and criteria for measuring the success of a project. A panel discussion with Den Davis, Daniel Tucker, Shaun Leonardo, Caroline Woolard, and William Powhida.

Room 501H, 335 West 16th Street, New York, NY

Caroline Woolard and Leigh Claire La Berge will give a lecture at Mildred's Lane. Arrive eraly for a tour at 3pm, have dinner at 5pm, and hear a talk at 7pm. 

Caroline Woolard will give a presentation at Mildred's Lane during MILDRED ARCHAEOLOGY II. Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett, with local and visiting historians and artists continue to study the site of The Mildred’s Lane Transhistorical Society and Museum, an ongoing project at the heart of the greater Mildred’s Lane project. 

Caroline Woolard will be a session leader at Nomad9 at the University of Hartford

Caroline Woolard and Jodie Evans are writers in residence at the Mesa Refuge to work on their book, Growing a Local Peace Economy (Chelsea Green, 2017).

As part of a day-long symposium on collaboration, Caroline Woolard will take part in a panel discussion with Heather Hart and Moreshin Allahyari, moderated by Kimberly Drew.

Register to take a 12 week course with Caroline Woolard, online through SVA Continuing Education.

Caroline Woolard will present her work at Google Design.

Caroline Woolard facilitates sessions for the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s SEED and Artist as Activist grantees at the Residency campus in Captiva, Florida. 

Caroline Woolard will be running a workshop at the Santuary for Independent Media and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on the formation of resources sharing networks.

Carline Woolard presents her work to RISD's Critical Curating students from 1:30-2:15.

Fri, Apr 28 from 6:00-9:00pm / Sat, Apr 29 from 1:00-8:00pm

LMCC’s Studios at 28 Liberty Street

LMCC kicks off its public season by inviting the public to 28 Liberty Street to visit the studios of LMCC’s 32 Workspace artists-in-residence! This diverse group of artists will open their studio doors and present their work free-of-charge, offering the public a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes to see brand new artwork, share conversations with artists, and gain insight into their creative practices.

Fri, Apr 28 from 6:00-9:00pm / Sat, Apr 29 from 1:00-8:00pm LMCC’s Studios at 28 Liberty Street

LMCC kicks off its public season by inviting the public to 28 Liberty Street to visit the studios of LMCC’s 32 Workspace artists-in-residence! This diverse group of artists will open their studio doors and present their work free-of-charge, offering the public a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes to see brand new artwork, share conversations with artists, and gain insight into their creative practices.

Caroline Woolard, Christopher Chavez, and Alexa Clay will present their work at NEWINC from 6-7pm at 231 Bowery (where Prince St. meets Bowery, to the right of the New Museum, if you are standing in front of the museum). 

Caroline Woolard presents her work from 5-6pm at the New York Studio Residency Program in DUMBO: 20 Jay St, Ste. M10 Brooklyn NY.

It’s springtime and things are growing in the lab! Artist in Residence Caroline Woolard has created a living exhibit, using mycelium to create ceiling tiles and sculptural objects (more information below). Come by to see how they’re doing! On view until April 25.

Join us for her opening talk on Friday, April 19th from 7-8pm

Location: Lawrence Hall Auditorium, L231 at Williams

Caroline Woolard will be speakng to Karyn Olivier's social practice class at Tyler School of Art at Temple University from 3:30-4:30pm.

Dannielle Tegeder's Lehman College class will visit Caroline Woolard at her LMCC Studio for an artist's talk from 1:30-2:30pm.

Caroline Woolard will be a panelist for a panel organized by ArtNet for VOLTA from 4:30-6 on Friday, March 3.

Caroline Woolard will appear on a panel at the New York Academy of Art as part of their Professional Practice Lecture Series for Sharon Louden’s new book with Mark Tribe, William Powhida, and Deanna Haggag.

Caroline Woolard presents her work at the New York Studio Residency Program from 5-6pm at 20 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Caroline Woolard is speaking with Thyrza Goodeve on David Ross' art show and broadcast, Please Disturb, at the Midtown Hilton. Coinciding with the College Art Association, the event will feature a 5-hour Facebook Live talk show.

Please join us at 7pm on Wednesday, February 8th to welcome Caroline Woolard to the Visible Futures Lab’s Artist in Residence program. In her residency at the VFL, Caroline Woolard will produce CNC cork blow moulds that will be used by master glassblowers to create an edition of glass replicas of an ancient Roman vessel called an amphora. These vessels are a component part of Carried on Both Sides, a critical design project that traces the transmutation of an ancient Roman vessel into a common computer symbol — the @ [at sign]. The project is made in collaboration with Alex Rosenberg, Helen Lee, and Lika Volkova and it will be exhibited at LMAK Gallery in the fall and presented in a documentary produced by PBS / Art21 for New York Close Up this spring. As an AIR, Woolard will also host an Idea Lab for students to provide support and resources to one another across departments at SVA. Please email carolinewoolard@gmail.com to be notified of the date of this event.

Caroline Woolard will present her ideas about art as the center of innovation for the Ford-funded “Studio for the Future of Arts and Culture” — which is a collaboration with Bennington College, and CCI.

From 1-3pm on Feburary 8th, Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe will lead a Supply Chain / Ten Leaps workshop at the CUE Foundation for New York Studio Residency Program students. CUE is located at 137 West 25th Street, Ground Floor, Between 6th and 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10001.

From 1-3pm on Feburary 4th, Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe of BFAMFAPhD will lead a Supply Chain / Ten Leaps workshop at the CUE Foundation. CUE is located at 137 West 25th Street, Ground Floor, Between 6th and 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Contact curator David Borgonjon for more information and to RSVP at davidxuborgonjon@gmail.com

Caroline Woolard will give an Artists Talk at MassArt, sponsored by the Fibers Department and the Studio for Interrelated Media, from 1:45-3:00pm. Contact mecote@massart.edu for the exact location.

Caroline Woolard wll present her work from 7:30-8:30pm at Boston University: 808 Commonwealth Ave. (Room 303).

Caroline Woolard presented the Study Center for Group Work to IBM, NYFA Board Members, and past fellows from the ABI Program.

About this program: Through the generous support of the Scherman Foundation’s Katherine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund, NYFA is pleased to open applications for the second cohort of our Arts Business Incubator (ABI) Program. ABI provides a small cohort of New York City-based arts startup businesses with up to 18 months of custom-tailored, formalized support from NYFA’s knowledgeable staff and network of experts. One technology-based arts enterprise selected will be selected for a special opportunity for a residency at Eyebeam, a nonprofit studio for collaborative experiments with technology toward a more imaginative and just world. By providing generous support to artists for research, production and education, Eyebeam makes ideas real.

Caroline Woolard will give a lecture as a Visiting Artist at University of the Arts.

Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall, Room 806, 211 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

For the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts, Caroline Woolard will deliver a keynote about the future of the arts in the United States.

Caroline Woolard presents her work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Caroline Woolard will give a talk at Bauhaus Universitaat in Weimar for the department of Media, Trend, and Public Appearance.

Caroline will be presenting at Platform Cooperative hosted by the New School.

Caroline Woolard will be a guest artist at the Oxbow School and will give a lecture on her work. 

Caroline Woolard: Free, Libre, Open Source Systems and Art 

with Pablo Helguera and Leigh Claire La Berge

Caroline Woolard will present at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany as part of Complex Financial Instruments, a collaboration between artist G Douglas Barrett and economic theorist Leigh Claire La Berge.

Caroline Woolard will give a lecture at the Bromo Arts District in Baltimore, Maryland.

Caroline Woolard will give a workshop at Guest Spot at the Reinstitute in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Caroline Woolard will give a workshop as part of the Art and Practice Seminar at the MoMA.

Caroline Woolard will be talking with 20 experts about preliminary findings of a year-long national study about support systems for artists and creative workers at the Center for Cultural Innovation in Los Angeles, California. 

Caroline Woolard will give an artists talk at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative is turning one year old!

Caroline Woolard will give a talk in Minneapolis at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and be present for the week, doing workshops as the Harlan Boss Visiting Artist for Art, Participatory Culture, Social Practice, and Critical Theory at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Caroline Woolard will give a talk at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut.

Caroline Woolard will appear as the Keynote Speaker at the Art History Graduate Forum's "Artivism" Symposium hosted by Georgia State University.

Caroline Woolard will be exhibiting work alongside Lika Volkova.

OurGoods.org cofounders Jen Abrams and Caroline Woolard will facilitate a workshop at MoMA as part of the Idea Lab series.

Caroline Woolard will give an artists talk at Contemporary Art Museum Directors with Lise Soskolne from WAGE at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut

Caroline Woolard will be speaking with Natalia Radywyl at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought hosted by Parsons, The New School. 

Caroline Woolard will be a guest speaker at Mark Read’s class: Insistence and Possibility at NYU. 

Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, Emilio Martinez Poppe will appear as guests on a panel at College Art Association as part of a Committee on Women in the Arts. 

Caroline Woolard will give a lecture at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.

Caroline Woolard with Vicky Virgin and Adjunct Commuter Weekly will appear in conversation at the 8th Floor discussing Arts Education as Cultural Capital.

Caroline Woolard's work will appear at the Hunterdon Art Museum in the exhibition Discomfort: Experiments in Furniture, Function and Form curated by Liz K. Sheehan. 

Caroline Woolard will be a Keynote Speaker at Art League Houston in a talk titled, Everything I Make Comes Back Home to Live with Me.

Caroline Woolard will give a talk at Oxbow School in Napa, California