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Emily Critch (they/them) is a Mi’kmaw + settler curator, art historian, and artist from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk Territory (Bay of Islands, NL). Emily was the 2025 recipient of VANL CARFAC’s Mary MacDonald Award for their ongoing efforts to help sustain and build the visual arts sector in Newfoundland and Labrador, and has been an arts worker in their home territory for more than a decade. 

Their most recent curatorial projects include Daze Jefferies’ first major solo exhibition stay here stay how stay (2024)  at The Rooms, eltu’n klaman mukwite’ten | making to remember (2024) at the Demasduit Regional Museum, and Jerry Evans solo exhibition Nilu’nen Ktaqmkuk | Ktaqmkuk Life Givers (2024) at the Grenfell Art Gallery. Emily also curated three shows to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of St. Michael’s Printshop 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 has published exhibition texts, reviews, and catalogue essays with several venues, and was the recipient of the 2024 Critical Eye Award for arts writing from VANL CARFAC for their published feature article “‘L’nu/Beautiful’: A Visit with Jerry Evan’s Retrospective Weljesi”.

They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (2018), and are currently working towards a Masters in Art and Architectural History and Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies from Carleton University.