Art critic, curator and essayist Sarah Milroy has been appointed Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Milroy is also a member of the ACI Board of Directors.

As a champion of Canadian art, Milroy served as the chief art critic at The Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011, has contributed to more than a dozen books on art, and also co-curated three major international exhibitions for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England: From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia (2014; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2015); Vanessa Bell (2016); and David Milne: Modern Painting (2018), which will also travel to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Read the full statement from the McMichael here.

Watch ACI’s “Art Talk: Sarah Milroy and Gerta Moray on Emily Carr” to here Milroy’s perspective on this extraordinary Canadian artist’s life and work.