Carol R Williams

Seattle, WA - United States

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Utilizing Art Methodologies for Pro-Active Change in Education, Business and Environmental Stewardship

COMMISSIONS:
Murals (indoor & outdoor), Large Scale Paintings (Both Digital & Traditional Formats)

PRODUCTS: Archival Prints, Canvases, Framed Artwork, Posters & Originals,Books, Calendars

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES:
Tailored Specifically for Youth or Adults, Large or Small Groups - or - 1 on 1 Instruction

* LEADERSHIP: Models and theories, Interdisciplinary Learning, Training Others to Lead, Creating Learning and Coaching Organizations

* BUSINESS: Business Design , Branding, Logos, Marketing, Social Media, Sales, Portfolios, Contracts and Agreements, Fundraising

* TECHNIQUE: Painting (Traditional & Water Based Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink), Drawing (Pastels, Pencil, Charcoal)
Monoprints (Oil & Acrylic), Digital Photography & Green Art, Group Mind-Mapping

* ETHICS: Designing a Moral Compass, Systems Approach to Art, The Paradigm Shift, Passing the Torch, Servant Leadership,Working with Youth & Young Adults, Giving Back: Community & Volunteering

* DIVERSITY: Cultural Competance, Facilitator Training, Creating Space for Productive Dialogues, Youth and Young Adult Trainings

ABOUT African American Fine Artist:
CAROL R WILLIAMS

Gallery Representation: The Wikstrom Brothers Gallery, Seattle, WA: http://www.bromwikstrom.com/wikart.html

Painting and drawing since she was 5 years old, Carol is a violinist of 20+ years, a Cultural Creative/Change Agent with a Masters degree from Antioch University,Seattle, WA in Whole Systems Design: Organizational Systems Renewal, with a specialization in Leadership, Organizational Development and Cultural Competency. She received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art at The Evergreen State College and is currently working on her PhD, with an emphasis in Executive Leadership.

Carol is particularly interested in Art as a Pro-Active Agent for Change in Education, Business and Environmental Stewardship. This entails finding common group solutions visually, analytically, auditorily (through various learning styles) . It also involves the art of facilitation; creating a sacred space to understanding collaboration as a process of phases, steps and seeds and utilizing art methodologies as a systemic tool for change. Carol believes that there are tools artists utilize often on a different scale than others: Critique, collaboration, analysis and feedback which can be transfered directly to assist in solving most of the current issues faced by humanity. Her workshops are designed with these attributes built in and created from a Whole Systems Approach. Carol's belief is that art is intriquietly tied to systems theories; personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision, team learning, training leaders as designers, teachers and stewards of tomorrow for the generations of tomorrow. Art can be a tool to bridge divides in perspective, observation and belief systems. Carol believes art is whole systems thinking in action and that all people have access to this knowledge, these tools and awareness, they need only apply the learning.

Born in Topeka Kansas, she soon after moved to Germany where she was raised. In 1981 Carol and her family settled in Tacoma where she graduated from Mount Tahoma High School. Currently she resides in Seattle, WA. Her family is from Mississippi & Chicago, Ill.

President Chair of Classified Staff Advisory Committee, May 2011, Carol received 'Employee of the Year Award' for designing a professional staff development training model. A 2004 Artist Trust Edge Graduate, she has exhibited at Seattle City Hall Gallery, Downtown Seattle US Bank, Northwest African American Museum, 3 time Seattle Center Sundiata exhibitor and has shown at the Kaplan Tashiro Artist Collective in exhibit The Mystic Sons of Morris Graves July 2010 curated by Charles Krafft.

2010 Carol gained gallery representation by the Wiskstrom Brothers Gallery at http://www.bromwikstrom.com/wikart.html

As a Northwest artist her focus has been the incorporation of cultural awareness/ competency via symbolic images found in all cultures, continents & belief systems all while utilizing images of Evergreen trees from the NW. Her work focus' on deciphering cultural mythologies, symbols, methodologies & the female deity to create new ideas, questions & concepts regarding convergent & divergent thinking, seeing & being. Her work has a whole systems approach (collective, interactive, adaptive, positive relationship building, viewing the whole as a system of related parts) & seeks to unify cultures. Carol's work urge you to re-evaluate what positivity, belief, hopefulness, faith and action mean to you. Her work is established in the context of analytical reflections, concepts & thinking.

Carol focuses the image so that the viewer is forced to evaluate for themselves the story. The bulk of her work can be viewed/hung in which ever direction you choose & tends to incorporate elements of sustainability,whether it be on, with or echoes of recycled materials.

Carol's work has been influenced by Miro, VanGough, Caravaggio, Picasso, Matisse, Basquat, Jacob Lawrence, Systems Theories, Models of Change, Egyptian Artwork, Asian scrolls and ink work and African American Gee's Bend Quilters. carol's major musical influences have been Prince, Tracy Chapman, Sade, Zap Mama, Enya, Bach, Eminem, Beethoven, the Gypsy Kings, Sting, Guns N Roses & Bob Marley.

Join Carol at:
www.facebook.com/klove4artcwilliams

Linked In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/klove4art

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/KLove4Artllc

Carol R Williams is also a member of

Black Art in America - The #1 Contemporary Site to Find Black Artists
http://blackartinamerica.com/profile/carolrwilliams

ArtSlant at:
http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/131596-carol-williams

Pandora:
http://www.pandora.com/people/klove4art

EXHIBITIONS:

Juried Solo Exhibitions:
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2/21/ - Featured Artist at The Gallery at Towne Centre, Lake Forest Park, WA
3/31/2012

6/10 The Wikstrom Brothers Gallery, Seattle, WA

5/10 The Electric Tea Garden, Seattle, WA

10/09 The Last Super Club, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

2/08 Private Studio Tacoma, WA

2- 4/06 US Bank, Downtown Seattle, WA

12/05 D&C Studios, Seattle, WA

11/2004 Shoreline, WA

10/03 Brewhaha Coffee Shop, Magnolia, WA

6-7/03 Gallier Cafe, Seattle, WA

Juried Group Exhibitions:
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6/2012 - Aug 2012 Art on The Ridge

11/2011 'The Art of Living Auction' The Evergreen State College, Benefit Fundraising for Student Scholarships

8-9/2011 Gallery at Tacoma Art Community College, Tacoma, WA

7-8/2011 Wikstrom Brothers Gallery, Wallingford, WA

1- 2/11 'Think in 2011'; Art on The Ridge, 5 Artist Group Collaboration Exhibit

12/10 Best of 2010: Gallery Art on The Ridge, Painting selected as a feature in exhibit

11/10 Burien Arts Annual Juried Art Show, Burien, WA

10/10 The Art Stimulus Party; Annual Auction Event to Support One x One, Painting selected for sale

10/10 The Evergreen State College; Annual Art of Living Auction, Mono-print selected for sale

9/10 Wikstrom Brothers Gallery; Scenes of Seattle Art Show, Group Invitational

8/10 The Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, Seattle,Group Invitational: Curator Charles Krafft; Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA

4/10 Wikstrom Brothers Gallery, Selected Mono-prints on Display, Wallingford, WA

2 & 3/10 Art on The Ridge, Featured Artist, Greenwood, WA

3/2010 NSCC: Painting Selected for Donation to Benefit Haiti Survivors of the Haiti Earthquake

3-5/09 Atlas Foods Restaurant, University Village, Seattle, WA

3/09 Urban Art Fair C Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2-3/09 Washington State University Art Gallery, Western, WA

2009 Sundiata Arts Festival Northwest African American Museum

8-12/08 Atlas Foods Restaurant in The University Village, Seattle, WA

2008 Sundiata Arts Festival at Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle, WA

3/2006 Ouch My Eye Art Gallery, Downtown Seattle, WA: Bemis Building

2006 Sundiata Arts Festival at Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle, WA

11/2005 Local Color Art Cafe, Downtown Seattle, WA

2/2005 Artist Trust Auction Event at Seattle City Hall Gallery, Seattle, WA

2/2005 Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle City Hall Gallery, Seattle, WA

7/2004 Seattle Art Museum through the Conciliation Project, Seattle, WA

7/2004 Artist Trust, Artist Trust Edge Group Show, Seattle, WA

7/2004 Art Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA

2/2004 Seattle Central Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1/2003 University of Washington, Ethnic Cultural Theater through the Conciliation Project , Seattle, WA

5/2001 Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, WA

5/1994 The Evergreen State College Art Gallery, Perceptual and Conceptual Exhibition, Olympia, WA

6/1992 Seattle Central Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

JURIED INSTALLATIONS:
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2004 Journey Wall Installation 16 3x4 feet Paintings across 2 walls

2002 OSR Installation Floor Installation 25 feet x 25 feet
Designed circular floor puzzle. During presentation art supplies were available on tables for people to decorate 1 puzzle piece. At the end had class gather in circle & put puzzle pieces together: exercise of diversity within unity.

1996 Upward Bound Program at TESC
Facilitated design of Upward Bound Mural, employed & counseled youth at risk & gave history of murals and art classes.

1995 Clover Park Vocational College Head Start Program
Organized parent community group and together designed & painted Our Home Stage Backdrop'

PUBLICATIONS:
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1/2011 Artist International Dictionary: World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara CA

5/03 - Current Web Site Management

4/2007 Professional Gicilee Archival Prints & Products:
Coffee Cups, Calendars, Photography, Posters,

12/2006 Coffee Table Book:
Life Lessons of an African American Artist: Carol R. Williams, Alias: K- Love 4 Art, LLC

5/1997 The Evergreen State College, Selected Paintings Chosen for TESC Student Teaching Slide Library

4/1996 Book: People of Color Anthology; Evergreen State Colleg 2 Paintings Juried & selected for publications

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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2012 Diversity Facilitator Training

2012 Teacher at Schack Arts Center

2011 Awarded Employee of the Year; Development of Staff Professional Development Training

2011 Designer & Facilitator New Program: Adviser of Student Leadership Advisory Council

2010 - Current North Seattle Community College: Utilizing Art techniques in the Facilitation /design of the
NEW Classified Employee Training System/Model - Based on a Whole Systems Art Methodology

2010 - Current Fine Art of America - Artist Member: International Online Rep: Featured Artist - In 'Painter's Universe'

2010 - Current Onyx Fine Art Organization: Invited to be Committee Member; Designed 2011 Retreat - Facilitated
development of Mission Statement, Vision Statement & Guiding Principles, 5 year plan

2010 Artist Trust Auction - The North Wests Premiere Artist Organization: Invited to submit artwork for Auction Jury

10/ 2010 Selected to Judge/Curate national art show through Hollywood Hills Northshore District Program - through Artist on the
Ridge, in Greenwood, WA, for grades k-6

2010 July - Current Gallery Representation: Wikstrom Brothers Gallery

2010 - Current Member Phinney Neighborhood Association: Art Gallery Curator & Volunteer

2010 - Current Member Artist Collaboration; Wikstrom Bros. Gallery

2010 - Current President Chair Classified Staff Development Advisory Committee

2010 Event Sponsor: Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs through the Grassroots Business Association

2009 - Current Artslant: Global Contemporary Art; Member

2009 Co-Chair Diversity Committee

2009 Facilitator of the Leadership Community Learning Group: From the Book by Sharon Daloz Leadership Can Be
Taught

2010 -13 Nominated: Standing Sustainability Committee: Sub Committees; Education Sustainability Curriculum &
Healthy Food on Campus at North Seattle Community College

2008 - Current Member: Juried into The Northwest Art Alliance which hosts The Best of the Northwest Art Shows

2009 - Current Nominated Member of Classified Staff Development Committee

2008 Appointed to the Pierce County Arts Commission (1 year)

2004 Juried & Selected for Artist Trust Edge Business Class

2004 Digital Storytelling Facilitator/ Train the Trainer (Gathering Community Histories)

2003 Center for Ethical Leadership Affiliate Training

2002 Employee of the Month

2001 Building Bridges National Coalition Building Institute: Train the Trainer Cultural Awareness 5 Day Leadership Training

2001 YWCA event Volunteer: Witnessed Coretta Scott King Speak

2000 YWCA event Volunteer: Witnessed Maya Angelou Speak

1999 Coalition & Community Organizing 5 Day Train the Trainer

1998 Vista- Americorps National Volunteer: Event Witnessed Colon Powell Speak

1990 Mount Zion Baptist Church: Witnessed Jesse Jackson Speak