EMILY FALVEY is the Director/Curator of the Owens Art Gallery and an award-winning art critic, curator, and art historian. In 2009, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Joan Yvonne Lowndes Award for excellence in critical and curatorial writing, and she received curatorial writing awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in 2006 and 2012. A doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, she is also a laureate of the Bourse Michel de la Chenelière (2017). Her doctoral research also received funding through the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is formerly the Managing Editor of RACAR (2017-2018) and the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery (2004-2008).