Charlotte Nash

Hi! My name is Charlotte Nash and I was born in Washington D.C. but grew up in Abu Dhabi, UAE. I grew up dancing, singing, and acting, and fostering a strong love of performance and the arts as well as international cultures and civilizations through global travel. I strongly believe that the arts is the language through which global cultures and citizens can communicate beyond barriers and I hope to share my perspective of the world in pursuit of making the world a more understanding and empathetic place. My scholarship focuses on curatorial studies, museum studies, art history, arts management, and feminist studies.

Title of Capstone Project

The Production of a Woman is First a Burning

Description of Capstone Project

The Production of a Woman is First a Burning is a curatorial study using a feminist approach to curatorial practice, culminating in a speculative exhibition proposal of contemporary art based on the concepts of women, witchcraft, and burning. Utilizing the work of Helen Molesworth, Silvia Federici, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and various other scholars, a collection of artworks by female and non-gender conforming contemporary artists will be put into conversation with each other and modern theories of feminisms in attempts to disrupt traditional patriarchal western modes of thinking and gain understanding previously unavailable to us.

What Inspired Your Project?

“Is it a revolution of the deepest order to insert women artists back into rooms that have been structured by their very absence?” - Helen Molesworth in "How to Install Art as a Feminist"