Presented by Frau Fiber’s archivist and biographer, Carole Frances Lung.
Lung will present 10 years of Frau Fiber’s persistence, encouraging the visitors, residents and citizens of America to exchange their leisure time for personal production of textile and apparel goods.
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<span lang=”en-US” style=”background-color:white;”><font face=”Times New Roman” size=”3″><span style=”font-size:12pt;”><font face=”Calibri” size=”2″><span style=”font-size:11pt;”>Still shot from Frau Fiber vs. the Industry Knitting Machine video, <span class=”contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_88_127″ role=”button” tabindex=”0″>Wigwam Sock Factory, Sheboygan WI, 2014</span></span></font></span></font></span>Carole Frances Lung is an artist, soft power guerilla activist, and associate professor of fashion fiber and materials at California State University Los Angeles. Through her alter ego Frau Fiber, Lung activates a vocabulary of fashion and textile production and consumption, crafting of one of a kind garments, installations, performances, and social sculpture, paying homage to labor, textile and apparel manufacturing histories and contemporary production systems.
Lung has been awarded: Kohler Arts and Industry Residency, Craft Creativity and Design Center Grant, At the Edge Gallery 400 award and Fred A. Hillbruner Artist Book Fellowship. Lung maintains the Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and Uniforms, Frau Fiber’s headquarters and experimental factory in downtown Long Beach, California.
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business School
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
6-7 p.m.
