She teaches, creates and sells art in her home and studio gallery, Chéz La Vie, 755 Ragle Road, Sebastopol, California. The gallery is open by appointment: 707-484-1151.
Carole paints the colors of passion through
the lens of magical realism.
Carole is an internationally exhibited artist. Her work has appeared in France, Japan, Ireland, Mexico, Guatemala, and Switzerland. Her journey as a professional artist began with earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at CCAC in Oakland, California. She went on to study weaving with indigenous Guatemalan natives on the shores of Lake Attitlan, and to establish and direct galleries in Healdsburg, Calif and Collioure, France. She pioneered the first fiber arts gallery in the United States, Carole Rae Fiber Center, in the Galleria Design Center in San Francisco.
While in San Francisco, Carole founded the Apprentice Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to placing apprentices with masters in various fields of endeavor.
Carole has deepened her art practice over the years to include tapestry weaving, stained glass, ceramics, hand painted tiles and mosaics, sculpture, traditional Japanese paper making, print making and painting.
For 28 years she directed her own art school, L’Art Vivant, in Soreze, a rural French village. She founded Sebastopol’s Art Heaven at Chéz La Vie in 2001, where she currently teaches classes and workshops .