Carole Frances Lung

Carole Frances Lung (born 1966) Her work concerns labor in the fashion industry and often comprises long-duration projects of performance art and collaborative art activism. She is based in Long Beach, California.

Early life and education Carole Frances Lung was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California.

Lung received a Bachelor of Science degree in Textiles and Clothing from North Dakota State University in 1988. She moved to New York City to work in the fashion design industry. Lung studied Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, During a 2006 semester abroad in Weimar, Germany, she studied Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University. There she engaged in her performance piece "One Size Fits All," sewing out of a storefront. has as its goal to break the mass-production cycle of consumer textiles, and involves teaching participants to make and repair clothing. Her project， Made in Haiti (2009-2012) was a collaboration with Haitian tailors to create an alternative to the mass globalized textile market. Frau Fiber was born in Apolda, Germany in 1966 and worked in garment and machine knitting factories until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Frau Fiber takes inspiration from the folk character John Henry; knitting or sewing by hand against faster technology, knowing that ultimately she will fail.