department at Louisiana State University. In the 1950s, Durieux experimented in printmaking; working on perfecting her electron printmaking technique (with radioactive ink) and she produced the first color cliché verre prints. In 1976, Caroline Durieux was the first living artist to be honored with a retrospective of her work at The Historic New Orleans Collection. In 1980, she was awarded the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. Mardi Gras Caroline Durieux, John McCrady and Ralph Wickiser collaborated on a 1948 book titled, Mardi Gras Day, published by Henry Holt. Each artist contributed 10 artworks as illustrations for the book. The ten lithographs that Durieux contributed for this book are surprisingly less satirical than much of her work. When asked about this, Durieux quipped that Mardi Gras was inherently self satirical and therefore she decided to present it as is. Durieux was a fixture at the Mardi Gras Day open house hosted by Lyle Saxon in the St. Charles Hotel. Dressing in costume was a requisite for admission to the party and some of Durieux’s images for the book were of attendees. In 2018 the Hermes parade included a float titled Caroline Durieux that was inspired by Swine Maskers one of the artist’s lithographs from the book. The other nine lithograph were: Carnival Ball, Coach Dogs, Death Masker,Five Girls, Night Parade, Queen of the Carnival, Rex, Six o’clock, TruckRiders. Good Will Ambassador In August 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named Nelson A. Rockefeller to head the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), a new federal agency whose main objective was to strengthen cultural and commercial relations between the U.S and Latin America, in particular Brazil, in order to route Axis influence and secure hemispheric solidarity. Rockefeller appointed Caroline Durieux to accompany an exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art to Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio. In the 1950s, Durieux’s work in electron printmaking was used as a tool in the Cold War. The Atomic Energy Commission sends an exhibition of Durieux’s works around the world to promote the premise that atomic energy can be used to create art rather than weapons. Innovation Caroline Durieux was never content with what she had achieved. She was intrigued with experimentation and new frontiers. The Zigrosser book on Durieux's was published n 1949, By 1951 she is experimenting with faculty friends Naomi and Harry Wheeler, a botanist, with ink coated microbes. In