Nic Caldwell

Nic Caldwell (he/they) is a memory worker, scholar, and printmaker, invested in making museums and libraries more accessible to marginalized communities. His approach to memory work 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 recently curated the exhibition “Gwendolyn Brooks: a Poet’s Work in Community” at The Morgan Library and Museum. Nic is a 2021 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.

Nic is a 2023 Book Art Research Fellow.