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Emily Critch (they/them) is a Mi’kmaw + settler curator, art historian, and artist from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk (Bay of Islands, NL). Critch has created or co-created 15 curatorial projects since starting as an independent curator in 2018, and has been an arts worker in their home territory for over a decade. Their most recent curatorial projects include these are our monuments (2021),  falling through our fingers (2023), Jerry Evans solo exhibition Mimajuaqne’kati | Place of Life (2024) at the Owens Art Gallery, Daze Jefferies first major solo exhibition stay here stay how stay (2024)  at The Rooms, and eltu’n klaman mukwite’ten | making to remember (2024) at the Demasduit Regional Museum. They were also invited to curate three shows to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of St. Michael’s Printshop in 2024 which includes gathering at the water’s edge: visiting artists of st. michael’s printshop at the Tina Dolter Gallery, etched by wind and water: print media of newfoundland and labrador at Union House Arts, and emerging along coastal margins: don wright scholars of st. michael's printshop.

Emily’s artistic and curatorial projects have been supported by ArtsNL (2018) and Canada Council for the Arts (2019), and they were the A.C. Hunter Public Library’s inaugural Indigenous Storyteller in Residence (2023). They have published exhibition texts, reviews, and catalogue essays with several venues including Eastern Edge, The Rooms, Eyelevel, and Visual Arts News. Critch was the recipient of the 2024 Critical Eye Award for arts writing from VANL CARFAC for their first published feature article “‘L’nu/Beautiful’: A Visit with Jerry Evan’s Retrospective Weljesi”, and the 2025 Mary MacDonald Award for their efforts to help sustain and build the visual arts sector in Newfoundland and Labrador. Critch holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Memorial University (2018), and is currently working towards a Masters in Art and Architectural History and Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies from Carleton University.