The Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms (ILGWU) embedded in the Fashion Fiber and Materials program in the Department of Art at Cal State LA, is the working archive, experimental factory and big ship era research lab, supporting the investigations of Frau Fiber, textile super hero. At the ILGWU, Frau Fiber facilitates an environment which reflects on the history of textile, apparel and transportation labor rights, and supports the efforts of the contemporary workers, who continue to labor at race to the bottom wages. The Sewing Rebellion is the educational arm of the IGLWU, the Sewing Rebellion collaborates with libraries, museums, galleries and art centers to developing tech packs, instructional videos and spaces for production, that challenge participants to stop shopping and start sewing, exchanging their leisure time for personal production while honoring the labor behind the label. Frau Fiber (Apolda Germany, B. 1966) is a textile super hero crafting spirited durational performances, using pedagogical, material and playful approaches to teach communities about the human cost of mass production and consumption. Frau Fiber’s operates out of Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms (North of the 710) her production facilited embedded into the Fashion, Fiber and Materials program at Cal State LA and ILGWU (South of the 710) the working archive and research library in downtown Long Beach, CA. Her legacy project is the Sewing Rebellion, a national campaign to “STOP SHOPPING AND START SEWING!” The Rebellion empowers through skill-sharing, facilitates community building, and advocates for social change. The Rebellion connects participants to the history of “thrift and reuse circles” and “quilting bees”, organizing people to come together to share resources, talk politics, and promote change in the fashion and textile industry. Sewing Rebellions have been hosted in Chicago, New York City, New Orleans, Denver, Sheboygan WI, Ames Iowa, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach CA, Asheville NC, Portland ME, Portland OR, London UK, and Weimar Germany. Carole Frances Lung (San Francisco CA, B. 1966) is an artist, soft power activist, and Associate Professor of Fashion Fiber and Materials, at California State University Los Angeles. As the biographer and archivist for her alter ego Frau Fiber, Carole activates a vocabulary of fashion and textile production and consumption, crafting of one of a kind garments, installations, performances, and social sculpture, paying homage to labor, textile and apparel manufacturing histories and contemporary production systems. Her performances have been exhibited at PUNKT Ø Moss Norway, Textile Museum Washington DC, Human Resources LA CA, San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum SJ CA, The Elisabeth Foundation NY NY, LA Municipal Art Gallery LA CA, Wingdall Museum at Chaffee College, Elsewhere Collaborative Greensboro NC, Michener Art Museum Doyelstown PA,Craft in America Study Center LA CA, Jane Addams Hull House Museum Chicago IL, Craft and Folk Art Museum LA CA, Center for Craft Creativity and Design Asheville NC, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland OR, and the Ghetto Biennale Port Au Prince Haiti. Publications include: KCET Artbound, Surface Design Journal, Art in America, and Art Papers. She has been awarded: United States Artists fellowship, Kohler Arts and Industry Residency, Craft Creativity and Design Center Grant, At the Edge Gallery 400 award and Fred A. Hillbruner Artist Book Fellowship, and Faculty Fellow for the Public Good.