Hello, my name is Caroline Woolard [she/her/hers]. I make sculptures, websites, and events to imagine and enact relationships of cooperation and mutual aid. I am a founding core organizer at Art.coop, on the Executive team at the tech-platform Open Collective Inc , and the Director of Research and Partnerships at the nonprofit Open Collective Foundation .
I believe that art can be revolutionary when it is aligned with the global movement for solidarity economies . I work on many scales: from the scale of a sculpture to the scale of a multi-year iniative, connecting Projects, to Systems (or Platforms), to Practices . You can read more about my process, here .
Following the economic crisis of 2007/2008, I co-founded barter networks TradeSchool.coop and OurGoods (2008-2016). Today, I am focused on convening and contributing to the Study Center for Group Work (since 2016) for collaborative methods and on business models for cooperative art schools (since 2020). I helped catalyze the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative to democratically finance permanently affordable space (2015). I wrote a book for arts educators about collaboration with Susan Jahoda ca
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