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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)

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

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 

Community 

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: 

http://blogs.evergreen.edu/artistlectureseries/blog/2019/11/01/week-8-former-greener-carol-rashawnnawilliams-wednesday-november-20th-1130-1pm-in-the-recital-hall-of-the-co m-building/ 

 

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/ 

Teaching 

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

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 

Awards & Honorable Mentions 

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  

mwi.movingworlds.org/ 

 

2019    Awarded 1 Year Membership Common Field Conference & $1,000 Scholarship

https://www.commonfield.org/ 

 

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 

rating-expanding-voices 

 

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 

www.onyxarts.org/ 

 

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 

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

https://seattlecollegian.com/author/jordan-somers/#:~:text=His%202020%20documentary%2C%20Hope%20is%20Not%20Cancelled%2C%20was,a%20keen%20interest%20in%20psychology%20and%20existential%20philosophy

 

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: 

https://southseattleemerald.com/2019/10/07/local-artist-draws-connection-between-race-and-climate-change/ 

 

2019 Interviewed, The Globalist Newspaper: 

https://www.seattleglobalist.com/2019/10/09/seattle-artist-draws-connection-between-race-and-c limate-change/88388 

 

2019 Interviewed, Seattle Times Newspaper: 

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/can-art-make-a-difference-in-the-fight-ag ainst-climate-change-these-4-seattle-area-artists-think-so/ 

 

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

Exhibitions 

 

Juried Solo Exhibitions: 

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 

2021 Bellevue Art Museum, BIPOC Sustainable Tiny Art House Community Sculpture Activation

2021 Sculpture, Outdoor Tree Fairy Goddess, Private Commission, Quinalt,Texas 

2021  Mural, Black Madonna, by Foster White Art Gallery thru $850

Alliance for Pioneer Square  

2021  Park Activation, Eli’s park remodel, by Eli’s Park $8000

The Eli's Park Project | Seattle | Inclusive park | Accessible park | Playground

2020 Installation, James & Jannie WA Foundation, Black Lives Matter 

2020  Installation, The 1 Mil (postponed til 2022), 

by Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, King Street Station Gallery 

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

Curriculum Vitae

CONTRACTS

COMMUNITY

TEACHING

AWARDS & HONORABLE MENTIONS

JURIED PUBLICATIONS

JURIED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

COMMISSIONS

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