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Carol E. Mayer, PhD, FCMA Citizenship: Canadian Address: (work) Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia 6393 NW Marine Drive Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2

PhD  University of Leicester,  BA (hons) UBC http://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/carol-mayer

Carol E. Mayer is the head of the Curatorial Department at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA). The Museum of Anthropology was established in 1949 as a department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. In 1976, it moved to its current home, an award-winning concrete and glass structure designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson [[Arthur Charles Erickson CC FAIA FRAIC Hon FRIBA (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree from McGill University's School of Architecture.[1]. with the grounds landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander Cornelia Hahn Oberlander CC OBC (born 20 June 1921) is a Canadian landscape architect based in Vancouver, British Columbia. During her career she has contributed to the designs of many high-profile buildings in both Canada and the United States.]] Carol Mayer is an associate of the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Department of Anthropology.UBC Founded in 1915, UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley. Carol Mayer is responsible for the Pacific collections and World ceramics. Her primary interest is to bring global interest to local issues through her work with communities and artists living in BC and the Pacific Region. Her research interests include the history of Pacific Islands collections in Canada, the exploration of intellectual property rights, and the building of collaborative networks between communities in the Pacific and the Northwest Coast. In 2009 she facilitated a historic reconciliation ceremony in Vanuatu between Canadian descendants of a missionary and members of the clan that killed him. She also co-authored, with Anna Naupa and Vanessa Warri, the book No Longer Captives of the Past: The Story of a Reconciliation Ceremony on Erromango that was distributed in schools throughout Vanuatu. In 2013 she organised the Pacific Arts Association International Symposium 11th Pacific Arts Association International Symposium Vancouver – 5-8 August, 2013  Hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology, situated on the unceded territory of the Musqueam Indian band, British Columbia, Canada, in partnership with the Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA) and the Pacific Peoples Partnership (PPP). in Vancouver in partnership with the Musqueam First Nations,xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)We are traditional hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking people. Today, we are a strong, growing community of over 1,300 members. Many of our members live on a small portion of our traditional territory, known as the Musqueam Indian Reserve, located south of Marine Drive near the mouth of the Fraser River. and curated the exhibition and authored the publication ‘Paradise Lost?’ Contemporary Arts of the Pacific that included collaborative work between Maori and First Nations artists. In 2016 she produced the exhibition and publication In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man that addressed the challenges to Indigenous life of resource extraction in the Pacific  More recently she has installed sculptural works made of ‘ghost nets’ and held workshops, with artists from the Region in communities in the Lower Mainland. Her other primary research interest is in ceramics including European and Asian ceramics, and BC ceramics. The ceramic arts only arrived in British Columbia at the turn of the 20th Century. Dr. Mayer has brought her museum and curatorial expertise to change the landscape for ceramics in BC through her scholarly avocation. She has exerted an impact on these activities by providing scholarly, curatorial, and written material for public consumption and institutional use. She was the founding president of the North-West Ceramics Foundation in 1993.In honour of her workon behalf of BC ceramics she was made a lifelong member of the Potters Guild of BC (PGBC) Potters Guild of BC supports and promotes ceramic works of BC artists throughout British Columbia, Canada.   She curated the only permanent installation of European ceramics in Western Canada and most recently she opened a major BC ceramics exhibition, Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, at MOA. She has published widely about ceramics, including "A Discerning Eye: The Walter C Koerner Collection of European Ceramics", "Don Hutchinson: The Artful Potter","Transitions of a Still Life and The Space In Between", "The Contemporary Works of Sally Michener and Tam Irving", and "Thomas Kakinuma at the University of British Columbia". She is the founding president of the Northwest Ceramics Foundation that advocates for the dissemination of knowledge about ceramics through education, exhibitions, programming and publication. She is vice-president of the Pacific Arts Association (North America) and a board member of the Pacific Peoples Partnership (the only Canadian NGO working in the Pacific.)Pacific Peoples Partnership For 45 years, Pacific Peoples’ Partnership has supported the aspirations of South Pacific Islanders and Indigenous peoples for peace, environmental sustainability, social justice and community development. She has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian is one of the world’s foremost research centers in science, the arts, and the humanities. In addition to research pursued by the museums, the following facilities specialize in areas of inquiry spanning the globe and the farthest reaches of the universe. and the Sainsbury Research Unit,The Sainsbury Research Unit (SRU), based in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, is a centre for the study of the arts of Africa, the Pacific region and the Americas, providing high quality facilities and a specialist research library for its staff, postgraduates and visiting scholars. and has been granted numerous awards. In 2009 Dr. Mayer received the International Achievement Award, ICOM Canada.ICOM Canada's International Achievement Award honours a Canadian museum professional who has demonstrated and promoted excellence in Canadian museology on an international scale. This award recognizes the outstanding contribution of knowledge and expertise towards the advancement and support of museology worldwide. Other awards have been from the Canadian Museums Association (where she is an appointed Fellow)The Canadian Museum Association (CMA) is the voice for Canada’s vibrant museum community, from small, volunteer-driven organizations to cherished national institutions, and for the millions of Canadians whose lives are enriched by museums., the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the BC Museums Association,Founded in 1957, the British Columbia Museums Association (BCMA) creates a bright future for British Columbia’s museum, gallery, and related heritage communities through networking, advocacy, innovation, and professional development. and life membership in the Potters Guild of BC.Potters Guild of BC supports and promotes ceramic works of BC artists throughout British Columbia, Canada. She has also received the President’s Medal of Excellence at UBC, the Independence Medal from the Republic of Vanuatu for her cultural contribution, and the Pacific Arts Association. Manu Dala (Frigate Bird) Award for outstanding achievements in the study of the arts of the Pacific. In 2019 she was one of the nominees for 'Woman of the Year' by the YWCA, which was subsequently awarded to one of her students. \

Family and early Life Carol Mayer, nee....... was born in London England, date..........

Selected Curated Exhibitions 2019	Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary. UBC MOA, November 21, 2019 – March 29, 2020. 2018	Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. UBC MOA, November 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019. 2017	Don Hutchinson: From Form to Fantasy. Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, January – March 2017. 2016	In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Contemporary Arts from the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. UBC MOA. March 2016 – February 2017. 2016	The Space In Between: Contemporary Works by Sally Michener + Tam Irving, West Vancouver Museum. September – November 2016. 2013	Paradise Lost? Contemporary Works from the Pacific. UBC MOA and Satellite Gallery (Vancouver), July – September 2013. 2012	Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott. UBC MOA, Nov 2012 – March 2013. 2011	A Green Dress: Memory, Objects and Museums. UBC MOA, September 2011 – March 2012. 2010	Museum People: Space and Performance. Photo exhibition. Nanaimo Museum, October – December 2010. 2009	Permanent installations in Multiversity Galleries: African, Oceanic, South-East Asian and European Collections. 2008	Ways of Knowing: Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology. Photo exhibition, July – September. 2007	Transitions of a Still Life: Ceramic Works by Tam Irving. Burnaby Art Gallery, March – April.

Selected Publications 2020	“Playing With Fire, Ceramics of the Extraordinary”, publication accompanying the exhibition, 84 pp. 2019	“In Her Words: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.” Publication accompanying exhibition. 28 pp. 2018	“Messenger of Grace: The Pacific Journeys of the Reverend George Stallworthy, 1809-1859.” MOA Magazine, Fall. 2018	“T-shirts & Turtles: Journeys to the Island of Erub.” MOA Magazine, Summer. 2018	“Thomas Kakinuma at the University of British Columbia”, publication accompanying the exhibition, The Art of Thomas Kakinuma at the Museum of West Vancouver 2018	“The Story of Thomas Kakinuma at the University of British Columbia.” MOA Magazine, Spring 2017	“Memories, Myths and Contemporary Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea.” Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 34, No. 1&2, Summer & Fall, 82 pp. 2017	“Don Hutchinson: The Artful Potter,” in Don Hutchinson: From Form to Fantasy, Surrey Art Gallery, pp. 10-18. 2016 	In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Contemporary Works from the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. MOA. 92 pp. 2016	The Space In Between: Contemporary Works by Sally Michener and Tam Irving (exhibition catalogue), West Vancouver Museum. 2015 	“A Green Dress: Vanuatu,” in Trophies, Relics and Curios? Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific, eds. Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield. Sidestone Press, Leiden. Pp. 131-138. 2015 	(Guest Editor) Pacific Arts Association Journal, 14 (1-2), 142 pp. 2015 	“Pacific Intersections and Cross-Currents: Unchartered Histories and Future Trends.” Pacific Arts Association Journal 14 (1-2): 5-11. 2015	A Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics. Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, 182 pp. 2015     Conversations and Memories: The Dr. Miguel and Julia Tecson Philippine Collection. MOA, 98 pp. 2014	Paradise Lost? Contemporary Works from the Pacific. MOA Museum note 42. Exhibition catalogue, 16 pp. 2013	No Longer Captives of the Past: The Story of a Reconciliation on Erromango. Co-authored with Anna Naupa and Vanessa Warris. Erromango Cultural Association, Vanuatu. 128 pp. 2012     “Review: Museums, Colonialism and Identity: A History of Naga collections in Britain,” Museum Management and Curatorship, vol.27, issue 4, pp. 431-433. 2012	Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott. MOA Museum note 41. Exhibition catalogue (8 pp). 2011	“Expressions of Continuity and Reflections of Rupture: Contemporary Pacific Art in an Anthropology Museum,” in Pacific Island Artists: Navigating the Global Art World. Karen Stevenson (Ed). Masalai Press. 2011	“Review: Photographing Papua: Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain.” The Journal of Pacific History. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 2010	The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Co-edited with Anthony Shelton. Douglas & McIntyre Publishing, Vancouver, 239 pp.

Selected Conference Presentations 2019	“Ghost net sculptures as advocates for new exhibitions, research and creative collaborations.” Panel chair and paper presentation, XIII Pacific Arts Association International symposium, Brisbane, March 22-26. 2018	“Thomas Kakinuma in Context.” Presenter, panel discussion at West Vancouver Museum, with Debra Sloan, Allan Collier and Stacy Reynaud, February 10. 2018	Panel chair and paper presentation, “Fragile Balances: contemporary arts, cultural integrity and environmental change” at the 105th College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 15-18. 2017	“Changing the Climate: Indigenous Rights, Land and Environment in BC and beyond.” Panel member and discussant at the BC Museums Association Conference, Victoria, October 3-6. 2017	“Origin Myths and Memories.” Invited keynote presentation at Anchorage Museum, organised by University of Alaska, October 1. 2017	“Mining, contemporary art and cultural life in the Middle Sepik region, Papua New Guinea.” Paper given at the Pacific Arts Association symposium, Previous Collections, New Obligations: The Ongoing Responsibilities of Ethnographic Museums. Geneva, Switzerland, November 21-23. 2017	“The George Stallworthy Collection at the UBC Museum of Anthropology.” Paper given at the Pacific Arts Association symposium, Previous Collections, New Obligations: The Ongoing Responsibilities of Ethnographic Museums.” Geneva, Switzerland, November 21-23. 2016 	“Exhibiting a Fragile Balance: In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man.” Paper presented at the College Art Association Conference, Washington DC., February 4, 2016. 2016 	“Here, in this place, by some strange alchemy… We gather to reconcile.” Paper presented in panel “Family Business” at the 76th Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver. March 30, 2016. 2016 	“A Fragile Balance: Contemporary Arts, Cultural Integrity, and Environmental Change on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea.” Paper presented at Pacific Arts Association (PAA) triennial symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. 2016	Arts of Papua New Guinea. Panel chair at PAA triennial symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. 2015 	“How Tambanum Grew In the Footprint of the Crocodile: An exploration of the relationship between environmental challenges and contemporary arts of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea Paper Presented at the Pacific Arts Association (Europe) symposium, Madrid, July 2. 2015 	How Tambanum Grew. In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man.” Invited talk at Visual and Material Culture Research Seminar Series, Winter Term 2, MOA, February 26, 2015. 2015	“Mission Accomplished? The Legacy of Religious Missionary Movements on the Art of Oceania.” Panel chair and presenter at the College Art Association conference, New York, February 1. 2014 	“Fifteen Men and a Hen: the Pacific Collections of Nina Burnett Potts 1898-1958.” Paper presented at Pacific Arts Association (Europe) symposium, Cologne, April 26. 2014 	“Museums and Galleries as Agents of Social Change.” Paper presented at Western Museums Association Conference, Las Vegas, October 6. 2014 	“The Third Space: how to re-imagine concepts of creativity, connection, learning and community involvement in engaging social practices.” Invited paper presented at BC Museums Association conference, Penticton, October 23. 2013	“Crafting Culture: The Making and Remaking of Identity.” Keynote paper at “Kete” Federation of Arts, Wellington, New Zealand. March. 2012 	“Museums and Contemporary Art: Toward Dialogue.” Paper given as part of panel presentation. BC Museums Association Conference “Rendezvous,” Kamloops, BC, October 17-20. 2012 	“More About Objects: The John Williams Collection.” Presentation at the Pacific Arts Association (Europe) annual meeting, Munich, Germany, June 28-30. 2011 	“We gather to reconcile – No longer captives of the past: Murder, missionaries and reconciliation.” Paper given at the Commonwealth Association conference, Singapore, May 26. 2011 	“Contemporary Pacific Arts in International Institutions: Regional View and Critique.” Paper given at the Western Museums Association conference, Honolulu, September 26. 2010 	“Many Small Steps: Pacific Indigenous Cultural Heritage & Contemporary Arts – opportunities and challenges.” Paper given at the Pacific Peoples Partnership Conference: Pacific Wayfinders:35 years of Action and Solidarity. Victoria, BC, November 10-13. 2010 	“Working with Community Groups: An Exercise in Seduction & Abandonment?” Presenter and moderator of panel Research-Informed Practice & Practice-Informed Research: Productive Encounters. Panel presenter: “Critique of exhibition, ‘Discovering Chinatown.’” BC Museums Association Conference: I, Museum: Community, Technology, Opportunity, October 27 – 30. 2010    “We Gather to Reconcile – No Longer Captives of the Past.” Paper given at the Pacific Arts Association 	symposium,Rarotonga, Cook Islands, August 7-10.

Awards 2019	 Pacific Arts Association. Manu Dala (Frigate Bird) Award for outstanding achievements in the study of the arts       of the Pacific. 2015	BC Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement for the exhibition Paradise Lost? Contemporary Works from the Pacific. 2013 	Canada Council for the Arts, project award for Paradise Lost exhibition of contemporary Maori installed at   MOA. 2011	Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in the publication category for Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (Carol E. Mayer and Anthony Shelton, eds.). 2011 	 UBC President’s Award for Service Excellence 2010 	 Awarded the Thirtieth Anniversary of Independence Medal for Cultural Contributions to the Republic of 	Vanuatu. 2009 	International Achievement Award, ICOM Canada. 2007 	Visiting Fellowship at the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia. 2004 	Appointed Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association (currently serving as chair). 2003     Fellow in Museum Practice: Smithsonian Centre for Education and Museum Studies.

Teaching Graduate: Served on PhD and MA committees in Anthropology, Education, Fine Arts and Interdisciplinary studies; directed studies with undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate: UBC – African Studies (2nd year), Anthropology of Public Representation (4th year), Museums Principles & Methods (4th year), Museum Anthropology (3rd year), Museum Studies Certificate Program. University of Victoria: Curatorship: Contemporary Perspectives (3rd year), Curatorship & Community (3rd year), Design & Curatorship (2nd year), Exhibition Development & Curatorship (2nd year), plus development of distance learning courses. Emily Carr University of Art & Design: Social History of Ceramics (3rd year), Copyright & Visual Arts (3rd year).

Memberships: College Arts Association, International Council of Museums (ICOM) – UMAC committee, Canadian Museums    Association (CMA), BC Museums Association (BCMA), Pacific Islands Museum Association, Pacific Peoples Partnership, VP North America - Pacific Arts Association, Northwest Ceramics Foundation (board member), Pacific Peoples Partnership

External Links UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA) BC Museums Association(BCMA) North-West Ceramics Foundation (NWCF) Potters Guild of BC (PGBC)