Charlotte Townsend-Gault is an art historian, professor emeritus, author, and curator. Townsend-Gault’s research, teaching and scholarship concerns contemporary visual and material Native American and First Nations cultures, particularly those of the Pacific Northwest. [1]
She has a bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sussex. [2] She also has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University College London (1988). [3]
Townsend-Gault developed early career experience as curator of the Mezzanine Gallery at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) between 1969 and 1973. She then left NSCAD to pursue her doctoral studies, subsequently joining the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the late 1980s. [4]
Townsend-Gault is also an Associate faculty member (emeritus) with the Department of Anthropology at UBC, [5] and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. [6]
Townsend-Gault’s own writing and collaborative editorial projects are recognized as foundational reading for students and scholars working in the areas of museums studies, museum anthropology, and the art history of Indigenous arts of the Northwest Coast. [7]
The 2013 anthology Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas was co-edited by Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer and Ki-Ke-In, and has been awarded three prizes:
Townsend-Gault’s writing has appeared in art history and anthropology journals[ example needed], and she has participated as a reviewer in publications such as RACAR, Vanguard and C Magazine. [10]
Charlotte Townsend-Gault is an art historian, professor emeritus, author, and curator. Townsend-Gault’s research, teaching and scholarship concerns contemporary visual and material Native American and First Nations cultures, particularly those of the Pacific Northwest. [1]
She has a bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sussex. [2] She also has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University College London (1988). [3]
Townsend-Gault developed early career experience as curator of the Mezzanine Gallery at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) between 1969 and 1973. She then left NSCAD to pursue her doctoral studies, subsequently joining the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the late 1980s. [4]
Townsend-Gault is also an Associate faculty member (emeritus) with the Department of Anthropology at UBC, [5] and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. [6]
Townsend-Gault’s own writing and collaborative editorial projects are recognized as foundational reading for students and scholars working in the areas of museums studies, museum anthropology, and the art history of Indigenous arts of the Northwest Coast. [7]
The 2013 anthology Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas was co-edited by Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer and Ki-Ke-In, and has been awarded three prizes:
Townsend-Gault’s writing has appeared in art history and anthropology journals[ example needed], and she has participated as a reviewer in publications such as RACAR, Vanguard and C Magazine. [10]