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Jocelyn Anderson, Deputy Director, Art Canada Institute, Toronto, is an art historian whose recent research focuses on art and the British Empire, particularly art in Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her work on images of the British Empire has been published in British Art Studies and the Oxford Art Journal, and she is the author of William Brymner: Life and Work (Art Canada Institute, 2020). Anderson has a PhD from the University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art). Daina Augaitis, was Chief Curator/Associate Director from 1996 to 2017 at the Vancouver Art Gallery where she worked with a team of curators to conceive and develop the Gallery’s exhibitions, publications, collections and public programs. Among the over 30 exhibitions she curated or co-curated were these solo projects of Rebecca Belmore, Douglas Coupland, Stan Douglas, Charles Edenshaw, Geoffrey Farmer, Kimsooja, Muntadas, Brian Jungen, Ian Wallace, Gillian Wearing and Zhu Jinshi. John Geoghegan is a writer and curator based in Toronto. His primary areas of interest are Canadian women artists, portraiture, and Inuit art. He is co-curator of the exhibitions Moving Side and Forward: A Journey through the Collection of York University for the Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario, and Looking Down from Up for Gallery 44, Toronto. Geoghegan is the former Senior Editor of Inuit Art Quarterly. Sarah Milroy is Chief Curator of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. The former editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine, she served as lead art critic of The Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011. In 2014, she and Ian A.C. Dejardin curated From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK, followed by Vanessa Bell (2017) and David Milne: Modern Painting (2018). Milroy and Dejardin also curated the McMichael’s exhibition Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald: Into the Light (2019). Milroy was the curator of Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (2021–22) at the McMichael. Nancy Tousley is an art critic, arts journalist and independent curator. She was art critic of the Calgary Herald for more than thirty years and a contributing editor of Canadian Art. She has organized exhibitions and written numerous catalogue essays for public art galleries across Canada. In 2002 she was recognized for outstanding achievement in arts journalism by the Canadian Museums Association and in 2011 was given a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for her contributions to contemporary Canadian art. Most recently, she was a contributor to the monograph Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty and co-editor and essayist for A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Painting of Levine Flexhaug, both published by Figure 1 Publishing. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.