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Carol Cooper - Rural Arts/Partnerships & Community Arts Coordinator
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Carol Cooper Program Coordinator for Community Arts Development and Arts Enterprise Partnerships, has worked with rural arts enterprises and small community arts organizations since 1999.
She envisions, coordinates, and promotes community- and arts-based economic initiatives including the first statewide arts trail, the New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails.
Carol facilitates statewide, regional and grassroots partnerships, and provides technical assistance on rural community development, cultural tourism, entrepreneurship, arts marketing, and capacity building.
Carol served for nine years as director of education at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, worked on consultancies in rural women's development with the United Nations in Indonesia and with Save the Children in Nepal, and regional program management and training for the Smithsonian Institution's Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program.
She has an M.S.Ed. in Adult Nonformal Education that emphasized multicultural community development.
She lives happily with her husband and blue heeler.