Nancy Tousley

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...See more

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. See less