Fine arts prof/associate dean lands lofty ‘Frigate Bird’ Award
Carol Ivory, professor of fine arts and CAS associate dean for curriculum and instruction, was honored with the Manu Daula (Frigate Bird) Award from the Pacific Arts Association (PPA) during a meeting this month in Vancouver, B.C. Recipients of the Manu Daula Award are selected by the PPA membership based on “outstanding achievement and dedication in the arts of the Pacific.” Ivory and a colleague received the award this year; only 14 people have received the award since 1984.
Ivory’s research focuses on the art, history, and culture of the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on the Marquesas in a variety of international publications. She was primary consultant on the exhibition, Adorning the World, Art of the Marquesas Islands, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2005-06; and the exhibition, Gauguin and Polynesia: South Pacific Encounters, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2011, and Seattle, WA, in 2012. She is currently guest curator for an exhibition on Marquesan art scheduled for fall 2015 at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris.