CAROL RASHAWNNA WILLIAMS
EXPERIENCE
Education
2014
PhD Art as Education – Argosy University (2 years - incomplete)
2003
MA Organizational Development/Systems Renewal:
Emphasis;Youth Leadership and Diversity/Cultural Competence – Antioch Seattle University
1997
BA Advanced Studio Fine Arts: Painter
The Evergreen State College
1988 21 Years Violinist & Viola
CONTRACTS
2022 - current
Consultant, Seattle City Light, City of Seattle, Art Plan next 10 Years
2019- Lead Consultant/Creator, BIPOC Tiny Art House Community - Campaign Building Equity through Sustainable Ownership Models; Home & Business Ownership, Fiscally Sponsored by Sustainable Seattle (S2)
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2022 - Brighton Development Group, Consultant, Member
2019- Consultant, Community Resourced Development (CORD) - Building equitable solutions to land development for those traditionally underserved
2016- Member, Environmental Professionals of Color (EPOC) - Leading through collective action
2016- Member, Seattle People of Color Salon (SPOCS) - Artist support salon
2019- Member, Abolitionists of Pierce County - Mission; defund police, reallocate funds to community: Working to destroy and defund the prison industrial complex
2018-2020 Consultant, Seattle's Commonfield/Artist New Deal (AND) - Mission; A project led by an artist organizer community. It emerged from a collective desire to support grassroots arts organizers
2020- Cohort Member/Graduate, Sustainable Seattle, RISE & Interweave Program - BIPOC Environmental Leadership Program
2019- Consultant, Rainier Avenue Business Coalition - Building the Hillman City Business District
2018-2020 Co-Executive Director, Community Arts Create: https://www.communityartscreate.org/ Making Honey for the Hive
2018-2019 Gallery Curator, Hillman City Collaboratory
2017-2018 Program Administrator, Historic Central Area Arts and Cultural District
2017-2018 Gallery Director, Gallery 110 https://www.gallery110.com/
2017-2018 Consultant, Building Art Space Equitably (BASE), Office of Arts & Culture, City of Seattle
Build Art Space Equitably (BASE) - Arts | seattle.gov
Carol Rashawnna Williams
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2014-2015 Director EcoArts Program, Nature Consortium
2012 King County Employment Specialist, Mural Artist Employment Teacher, Kent City Pool/Kent Arts Commission/Kent High High School, Mural Project
2012-2014 Employment Program Coordinator, YouthBuild, Youthcare
2009-2012 Student Success Specialist & Administrative/Office Manager, Upward Bound at NSCC
2007-2009 Real Estate Agent, John L Scott, Tacoma, WA
2003 Program Coordinator, Young Leaders of Promise, Center for Ethical Leadership
2002 Lead Employment Specialist, YWCA Youth Opportunities
1999-2001 Program Manager, The Working Zone, YWCA – Houseless Youth Employment Program
1995/1998 Teacher & Job Placement Coordinator, Head Start
1997-1998 Volunteer, Vista-Americorps – Trained to lead
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Community
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2021 Presenter, NW Green Home Tour
2021 Panelist, Cornish College, The Neddy Exhibition Zoom opening award finalist panel
2020 Panelist, PBS News/Crosscut, In the Time of Nature
2020 Panelist, Return to Evergreen, Art as Resistance
2020 Speaker, Woodinville Youth Forum, Art Practice, Strategies and the Environment
2019 Panelist, Art & Lecture Series at The Evergreen State College:
2019 Speaker, TUFF Panel, Seattle City Hall:
https://townhallseattle.org/event/tuf-art-collective-showcase/
2019 Panelist, NOWPAC Conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-nowpac-conference-the-new-nw-rules-of-public-art-tic kets-66415212689
2017 Event Presenter, Art as Social Justice Workshop - The Back-BoneCampaign
2017 Presenter, Art Leadership, Race & Climate Justice, Multicultural Environmental Event, Islandwood at Seattle Antioch University
2017 Presenter/Workshop, Environmental Mask Warriors; Art as Action & Social Justice, People’s Movement Environmental Conference at Seattle University
2017 Certified Trainer/Facilitator/Mentor, International Environmental Leadership Corps 3 Day Intensive Certification via President Al Gore
2017 Team Facilitator, Race & Climate Justice, Leadership Team – Event: Tax Carbon
2017 Invitational Facilitator, Art Group Grand Cinema Theatre -After Movie Discussion ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Tacoma WA http://www.grandcinema.com/events/film-discussion-i-am-not-your-negro-2/
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Teaching
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2019 Murals, Hillman City, Community Arts Create, Community Paint Day
2019 Mural 3 day workshop ‘Belonging’, permanent mural, The Evergreen State College
2019 Climate Justice Large Scale Art Engagement Installation & 3 Workshops, Seattle University
2019 Training, Arts Restoration, K-Love 4 Art, Leadership Apprentice
2019 Career Fair Speaker, Art & Environment, Cleveland High School, Seattle, WA
2017 Workshop Presenter, Identity Mask Making, Tacoma Art Museum 30 Americans Exhibition
Carol Rashawnna Williams
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2017 Teaching Artist, Weeklong African Mask Making, Seattle Public Schools Lawton Elementary
2017 Lead Art Teacher, Art in the Park Installation –Theme DOORS: What does home mean to you? Coyote Central – Hit the Streets
2016 Teaching Artist, Large Scale Mask Making, Exhibited in the
UMOJA Parade Coyote Central
2016 Teaching Artist in Residence, Gage Academy - Bellevue Art Museum: month of June
2016 Event Facilitator, Women of Color Healing Group: Black Lives Matter
2016 Presenter, Art & Environment - Seattle Middle College Seattle Public Schools
2016 Event Facilitator, Women of Color Speak Out
2014-2018 Founder/ Facilitator, Leadership Team at Race & Climate Justice - The first project in Seattle to provide Free Bi-Monthly Environmental/Cultural Competence Leadership Trainings to Executive leaders in top Environmental Agencies in Seattle
2014-2018 Founder/ Facilitator, ARTifACTS Collaborative Arts Collective
1995- 2012 Coordinator/Teacher/Program Manager: Multiple positions in the Youth Employment Field
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Awards & Honorable Mentions
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2021 Artist Up Mentorly Scholarship, City of Seattle, Office of Arts and Culture
2021 Awarded Artist Residency, COGalleries, Berlin, Germany http://www.cogalleries.com/
2021 Awarded The Neddy Finalist, In painting, Cornish College of the Arts and Behnke Foundation
Neddy at Cornish Artist Award for Pacific Northwest Artists
2020 4 Culture Covid Artist Relief Scholarship, 4 Culture Home | 4Culture
2020 Awarded RISE Cohort & Interweave Program, Sustainable Seattle https://www.sustainableseattle.org/programs/interweave/rise/
2020 Awarded Catalyst Finalist, Rachel's Network Environmental Award for Women of Color https://rachelsnetwork.org/
2020 Awarded Artist Residency, Dr. James & Jannie Washington Foundation through 4 Culture https://jameswashingtonculturalcenter.org/
2020 Awarded National Adjudicator, Environmental Youth Art contest
2019 Artist in Excellence Award, Dr. James & Jannie Washington Foundation https://jameswashingtonculturalcenter.org/
2019 Awarded SUVAIR Residency, Seattle University
http://cms.seattleu.edu/artsci/departments/art-arthistory/visual-artist-in-residence---suvair/
2019 Awarded Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship https://elpnet.org/
2019 Public Art Acquisition - Sculpture; Tambourine, Permanent Placement, The Evergreen State
College, Lobby of the Student Services & Welcome Department
2019 Selected Adjudicator, Seattle Environmental Leadership Awards - Sustainable Seattle
https://www.sustainableseattle.org/
2019 Awarded 6 Month Fellowship Coaching & Scholarship, Movingworld Institute
2019 Awarded 1 Year Membership Common Field Conference & $1,000 Scholarship
2018 BASE Cohort Consultant -1 year placement - Planning team and workshop facilitator, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture - Building Art Space Equitably (BASE)
2018 Awarded Garboil Conductive Grant Recipient, 4 Culture & Artist Trust $3,000
https://www.4culture.org/2018conductivegarboil/ http://garboil.org/ https://artisttrust.org/index.php/news/press-release/estate_of_artist_su_job_announces_2018_c onductive_garboil_grant_recipients
2018 Awarded Public Art Sculpture, Seattle Center Sculpture Walk - City of Seattle https://www.seattle.gov/arts/programs/public-art/temporary-projects/seattle-center-sculpture-wal
2018 Awarded Public Art Boot Camp 3 Day Intensive – City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture
2018 Accepted to 3 Month Artist Residency 6 - 8/2018 & Scholarship: AADK Spain International platform of research and contemporary creation, 30540 Blanca | Murcia | Spain www.aadk.es | info@aadk.es www.facebook.com/AADKSpain http://aadk.es/en/aadk-spain/
2018 - 2020 Accepted Creative Advantage Artist Roster - City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture https://www.creativeadvantageseattle.org/
2018 Nominated Environmental Artist Award – Sustainable Seattle
Sustainable Seattle | For a thriving, regenerative, sustainable Seattle
2018 Event Invitational - Panelist & Facilitator Seattle Race Conference; Art, Race & Climate Justice
https://www.seattleraceconference.org/2018participants
2018 - 2020 Accepted Artist of Color Roster - City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture
https://www.seattle.gov/arts/programs/ethnic-artist-roster
2018 Grant Juror, Artists Projects, Artist of Color Expo & Symposium (ACES) Shunpike
City of Seattle Office of Arts of Culture https://www.artistsofcolorexpo.org/
2017 Selected Juror for the Conductive Garboil Award, Artist Trust and 4 Culture
2017 Nominated James W Ray Award - Artist Trust https://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/money#james_w._ray_distinguished_artist_award
2017 Grant Award 4 Culture Artist Community Grant $5,000
https://www.4culture.org/grants-artist-calls/past-grants/?c=179108&y=2017
2017 Accepted Artist Roster, Creative Advantage, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2017 Event Invitational Islandwood Environmental Conference at Antioch, University
Presentation: Art as Climate Leadership through Story & Engagement
https://islandwood.org/event/islandwood-multicultural-environmental-education-conference-celeb
2017 Accepted 9 Month Non-Profit ED Cohort Training, City of Seattle Non-Profit Assistance Center
2017 Event Invitational Facilitator Speaker Presenter with International Artist Claire Tancoon at Black
Zone: Art as Social Justice
2016 Accepted Conference Speaker, Women on the Rise - Artwork Featured
2016 Selected Featured Artist, Talk Show Radio: The New Urban Unlimited, w/ Hiawatha D
2015 Invitational Speaker/Exhibitor Whidbey Institute’s Climate Collaborative Conference -
Presentation and Artwork Exhibition https://whidbeyinstitute.org/
2015 Art Acquisition City of Seattle, Office of Arts and Culture
https://www.seattle.gov/arts/programs/public-art/civic-art-collection
2014 Nominated ‘Fell From the Sky Award’ by Famous Artist Marita Dingus
http://www.fellfromthesky.org/#home
2014 Artwork Awarded 1st Place Onyx Fine Arts Exhibition WA State Convention and Trade Center
2014 - 2020 Accepted Ethnic Artist Roster, City of Seattle - Office of Arts and Culture
2011 - 2012 Appointed Training of the Facilitators Professional Diversity Staff Development North
Seattle Community College
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Juried Publications
2021 Pioneer Square Alliance, Artist Highlight
2020 Book Published, Viral Murals Seattle, Chatwin Books http://www.chatwinbooks.com/shop/viral-murals-seattle-artists-storefront-murals-and-the-power-of-art-during-crisis
2020 Video/Interviewed, Hope is Not Cancelled by Jordan Sommers, Featured at NW Film Forum,
Video Awarded Oregon Documentary Film Festival https://youtu.be/-TwAMK9cayE
2020 Newspapers Covid Murals: King 5 News, CNN, Seattle Times, Seattle Central College, South Seattle Emerald
2020 Panelist, In the Time of Nature, PBS/Crosscut
2019 Speaker, Art & Lecture Video Series - The Evergreen State College
2019 Artwork Featured, Cascadia Magazine - ‘WATER’
2019 Interviewed, DECEMBER Feature -The Evergreen State College Alumni Magazine
2019 Interviewed, South Seattle Emerald Newspaper:
2019 Interviewed, The Globalist Newspaper:
2019 Interviewed, Seattle Times Newspaper:
2019 Consultant Special Thanks, Structure for Stability: Recommendations for Preserving Cultural Space, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Arts/Downloads/Space/2019_4_22-StructureforStability.pdf
2019 Published (released winter 2019) Seattle, WA’s Top African American Artists,
Producer - Barry Johnson
2019 Published Video Series, Artists Collective for Equitable Development (ACED)
https://www.commonfield.org/network/2693/artist-coalition-for-equitable-development
2018 Interviewed, iBrother https://vimeo.com/300693129
2018 Published, Blue Cone Studios - Seattle Artists Book: ‘The Relevant Unknowns’
https://www.blueconestudios.com/the-relevant-unknowns
2018 Published, Onyx Fine Arts Book ‘Truth Be Told’ African American Artists of Seattle
http://www.onyxarts.org/store/p13/Truth_B_Told_Commemorative_Photo_Book.html
2018 Featured Radio Interview KUOW, It’s time to broaden the definition of Black Art, CRW
https://www.kuow.org/stories/its-time-broaden-what-definition-black-art-means
2018 Interviewed/Featured article, REDEFINE Magazine - Race & Art in a Displaced Culture
http://www.redefinemag.com/tag/carol-rashawnna-williams/
2018 Interviewed/Featured article and on the cover, ARCADE Magazine - Art, Race and Gentrification in Seattle http://arcadenw.org/article/gentrification-and-displacement-in-seattle-neighborhoods
2017 Radio Interview, Black art and the female identity – Hiawatha D
2006 - current Photographed by Famous Photographers: Chloe Collier, Zorn B Taylor, Michael B Maine, Jay Taylor, January Fredricks, Jordan Sommers
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Exhibitions
Juried Solo Exhibitions:
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2021 Vashon Art Center Gallery
2021 Gallery - Berlin, Germany www.cogalleries.com
2021 Auburn Storefronts, City of Auburn
2021 King Street Station Gallery, Office of Arts & Culture
2020 Gary Manuel Salon, Pioneer Square
2020 Shunpike Storefronts, Amazon Campus
2020 Seattle Repertory Theatre
2020 Restaurant Downtown Seattle
2020 Pacific Northwest Ballet
2019 Featured Artist - Seattle Impact HUB
2019-2020 Vioure 9 Paintings selected for exhibition https://www.vioure.com/artists
2019 Sustainable Seattle, commissioned to design engagement art pieces for Environmental Leadership Award Fundraiser
2019 Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA - Large Scale Installation: ‘For the Record’
2019 Seattle University Master of Fine Arts Gallery - Large Scale Student Engagement Installation
2018 Tashiro Kaplan Le Colourer Gallery - Installation: Borders, Boundaries & Beehives; A
Collective Viewpoint on Race & Climate
2018 Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts VCR - Exhibition: Conquest of Nature
2018 Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts VCR - Video and Public Conversation Re-defining Black Art
2018 Resilience Environmental Summit at Seattle University
2018 Café Vita, Pioneer Square
2016 Georgetown Arts Cultural Center, Seattle, WA http://georgetownartcenter.org/
Juried Group Exhibitions:
2021 C Art Gallery
2021 Vashon Island Gallery
2020 The Dr. James and Jannie Washington Foundation
2021 C Art Gallery
2019 Seattle Impact HUB, curator Eli Lara
2019 City of Seattle Ethnic Heritage Gallery, King Street Station, Office of Arts & Culture
2019 Pacific Northwest Ballet, at https://www.pnb.org/
2019 Kirkland Arts Center: Capability; Gun Violence - Installation ‘Body Bag’
http://www.kirklandartscenter.org/event/capability/
2019 C Art Gallery, Seattle, WA www.cartgallery.org/
2019 i5 Pho, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA https://www.i5phoseattle.com/#/
2018 Centro Negra, Blanca, Spain http://aadk.es/en/aadk-spain/
2018 Onyx Fine Art Gallery, Pacific Plaza Mall, WA
2018 SPACE Gallery, Sandpoint, WA https://www.spaceatmagnuson.org
2018 C Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 CoCa Art Gallery, Seattle, WA https://cocaseattle.org
2017 Black Zone, Pop-up Gallery
2017 We The People Exhibit, Westlake Park
2017 Turning to Stardust, University of Washington School of Social Work Exhibition
2017 Seattle Design Festival, Tree Forest Installation on Prison Industrial Complex
https://designinpublic.org/blog/2017-year-review/
2017 Out of Site Exhibition, A Survey of the Best Pacific Northwest Artists, curated
by Susan Surface http://www.outofsight.space/
https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2017/8/1/out-of-sight-leads-the-fight-for- northwest-artists https://www.cityartsmagazine.com/out-sight-big-beautiful-and-bright/
Commissions
2021 Mural, Supporters of BLM, the Killing of Jesse Saray by Police, Kent WA
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2021 Bellevue Art Museum, BIPOC Sustainable Tiny Art House Community Sculpture Activation
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2021 Sculpture, Outdoor Tree Fairy Goddess, Private Commission, Quinalt,Texas
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2021 Mural, Black Madonna, by Foster White Art Gallery thru $850
Alliance for Pioneer Square
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2021 Park Activation, Eli’s park remodel, by Eli’s Park $8000
The Eli's Park Project | Seattle | Inclusive park | Accessible park | Playground
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2020 Installation, James & Jannie WA Foundation, Black Lives Matter
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2020 Installation, The 1 Mil (postponed til 2022),
by Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, King Street Station Gallery
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2020 Mural, Love, by Alliance for Pioneer Square
2020 Mural, This too shall pass, by ChinaTown Association
2019 Installation, For the Record, by Seattle University
2019 Mural, Hillman City Welcome, by Multiple Community Orgs
2019 Mural, Belonging, by The Evergreen State College
2018 Installation, The Healing Forest 2, by Seattle Design Festival
2018 Installation, Segura River, by Spain AADK, Blanca, Spain
2018 Mural, Trees/Forest, Private Client, living room forest mural, Blanca, Spain
2017 Installation, The Healing Forest 1, by Onyx Fine Arts
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