Suzanne MacAulay, Ph.D.

Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
M.A. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Boulder, Colorado, Art History.
B.A. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Brief Biography:

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 Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute 2004 Showcase, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado,1 May 2004.

Book:

Stitching Rites: Colcha Embroidery Along the Northern Rio Grande. Tucson: 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. Invited.

"Finding Local Coordinates in a World of Difference: Oral Research with Cook Islands Women in Aotearoa/New Zealand." Oral History in New Zealand 14: Spring 2002: 1-6. Invited.

"…the continuous thread of revelation…" – The Terracotta Sculptures of Andrea Gardner. Object magazine No. 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.

Community Service (selected):

GRANT REVIEW PANELIST. Colorado Council on the Arts, 2004-

SARJEANT ART GALLERY TRUST BOARD Deputy Chair, 2000 – 2003.

TRUST BOARD MEMBER – appointed 1996 – 2003. Wanganui, New Zealand.

FINE ARTS REPRESENTATIVE (Wanganui Polytechnic), Sarjeant Art Gallery Education Consultative Committee, Exhibition Planning Committee and Tylee Cottage Artist Residency Selection Committee, 1996 - 2003.

FINE ARTS REPRESENTATIVE, Wanganui Polytechnic Research & Ethics Committee, April 1995 - 2003.

FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE, Wanganui Polytechnic Academic Council. Elected April 1995 - 1999.

GRANTS PANELIST AND SITE EVALUATOR, Colorado Council on the Arts, Folk Arts Mini-grants Review Panel; Folk Arts Master/Apprentice Program, Denver, Colorado, 1991-1994.