Nic Caldwell

Nic Caldwell (he/they) is a 2024 Curationist Critic of Color. Nic is a librarian, curator, and printmaker, invested in making museums and libraries more accessible to marginalized communities. His approach to cultural criticism is to challenge the boundaries of who has access to knowledge, who creates history, and whose stories get to be told. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Nic is currently located in New York City where he was most recently a 2023 Research Fellow at The Center for Book Arts and curated the 2022 exhibition “Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community” at The Morgan Library & Museum. Nic is a graduate of New York University, with a Masters in Library and Information Science and a Masters in English Literature, concentrating in Special Collections and African American literature.