Visual and Performing Arts
Dr. Suzanne Macaulay
Associate professor of art history
chair, Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.A. in Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
B.A.
B.A. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Selected Community Service 2004-present
Grant Review Panelist, Colorado Council on the Arts
2000 - 2003
Sarjeant Art Gallery Trust Board, Deputy Chair
1996 - 2003
Trust Board Member, Wanganui, New Zealand
Fine Arts Representative (Wanganui Polytechnic), Sarjeant Art Gallery Education Consultative Committee, Exhibition Planning Committee and Tylee Cottage Artist Residency Selection Committe
1995-2003
Fine Arts Representative, Wanganui Polytechnic, Research and Ethics Committee
Faculty Representative, Wanganaui Polytechnic, Academic Council
1991-1994
Grants Panelist and Site Evaluator, Colorado Council on the Arts, Folk Arts Mini-grants Review Panel; Folk Arts Master/Apprentice Program, Denver, Colorado
Suzanne P. MacAulay, Ph.D., is former director of the Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui Polytechnic, Wanganui, New Zealand. MacAulay is writing a book on memory, diaspora, culture, and identity politics inspired by New Zealand expatriate narratives. The initial stage of this narrative study of immigration received an Australian Sesquicentennial Gift Trust Award. Other research interests include ethnoaesthetics and material culture (Hispanic and South Pacific textiles). She has also researched and written on Hispano village life in the Southwest, the history of migration into that region, vernacular architecture, and Penitente ritual practices as they are being revitalized in southern Colorado. Teaching specialties (amalgam of art history and folklore): African Art, Myth and Ritual; Popular Culture; Folk Art; Pacific Rim Series: Art and Aesthetics of Japan; Art and Mythology of Southeast Asia; South Pacific Art and Culture; Maya and Aztec Art and Myth; Native American Art and Ritual.
Performance
"The Exile Papers," Performance for the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute 2004 Showcase, University of Colorado, 1 May 2008.
Books
Stitching Rites: Colcha Emboridery Along the Northern Rio Grande. Tuscson: The University Press of Arizona, 2000.
Honorable Mention, Elli Kongas-Miranda Publication Prize, American Folklore Society, Women's Section, 2001.
Articles
"Diaspora by Degree: Narrative and Performance in Interviews of Expatriates
from Wanganui, New Zealand." The Journal of American Folklore 465: Summer 2004.
"Lauren Lysaght, Citizen Artist." Art New Zealand 103: Winter 2002: 71-73.
"Finding Local Coordinates in a Wold of Difference: Oral Research with Cook Islands Women in Aotearoa/New Zealand." Oral History of New Zealand 14: Spring 2002: 1-6. Invited.
"...the continuous thread of revelation..." - The Terracotta Sculptures
of Andrea Gardner. Object Magazine Mp/ 3: 2001: 46-7. Invited.
"Tivaevae: Local Aesthetics and Cook Islands Appliques." Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints. Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2000. Juried.
"Keeping Taonga Warm: Museum Practice and Maori Guardianship." Journal of Museum Education 24 No. 1 (Fall 1999): 14-17. Invited.