Carol Schrader is a member of the Abstract Picnic Arts Collective in Santa Fe, and is currently artist in residence at the Coe Center for Indigenous Arts. She is honored to be on the educator team for Jeffrey Gibson’s US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. Schrader is completing an MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, and also holds an AFA in Studio Arts and MA in Multicultural Education, UNM, and a BA in Government, Harvard. She is a member of ART21 Educators and has taught at the K-12 and college level, and also managed a social justice circus and worked in the US Senate. Arts education brings together her passions for creating community and working for social justice.