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Woolard graduated from Cooper Union, at the time a tuition-free art school in New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006.
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Caroline Woolard
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Woolard is currently a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design and is an artist in residence at the Queens Museum of Artist 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 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Philosophy) 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 ’s Artists Experiment initiative (2013).
Woolard"s work has been supported by a fellowship at Eyebeam, residencies at the Queens Museum, MacDowell Colony, and Watermill, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation"s New York City Cultural Innovation Fund.
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She primarily works collaboratively and collectively and was a founding member of Trade School, OurGoods, and BFAMFAPhD.
