Organizations

1. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
2. Canadian Federation of Musicians / Federation canadienne des musiciens
3. Canadian Actors' Equity Association (CAEA)
4. Fédération culturelle canadienne-française (FCCF)
5. Kehewin Native Dance Theatre
6. Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC)
7. Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV)
8. Conseil québécois du théâtre (CQT)
9. Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference / Conférence des collectifs et des Centres d'artistes autogérés
10. Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC)
11. Independent Media Arts Alliance / Alliance des arts médiatiques indépendants
12. Canadian Crafts Federation / Fédération canadienne des métiers d'art
13. Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick
14. League of Canadian Poets
15. Canadian Dance Assembly / L’Assemblée canadienne de la danse (CDA / ACD)
16. The Writers' Union of Canada
17. Dancer Transition Resource Centre / Centre de ressources et transition pour danseurs
18. Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (UNEQ)
19. Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)
20. Electric City Culture Council Peterborough
21. Canadian Federation of Musicians, Ottawa Local 180
22. CARFAC – Ontario
23. New Brunswick Crafts Council
24. Basic Income YYC Arts Collective, Calgary
25. Prospect Human Services, Studio C
26. Kingston Arts Council
27. CARFAC - Alberta
28. Media Arts Network of Ontario
29. Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
30. Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists/West
31. Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists/East
32. CSARN (Canadian Senior Artists’ Resource Network)
33. Associated Designers of Canada
34. Canadian Association for the Performing Arts / Association Canadienne des organismes artistique
35. Ontario Presents
36. Ontario Association Of Art Galleries

New Endorsements

1. Toronto Arts Council
2. Guelph Arts Council
3. Canadian Musicians' Coalition

Individuals

1. Moridja Kitenge Banza - 2020 Sobey Art Award – Quebec / Multidisciplinary Artist
2. Ruth Cuthand - 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Visual Artist
3. Jorge Lozano - 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Filmmaker
4. Anna Torma - 2020 Saidye Bronfman Award / 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
5. Marlene Creates - 2019 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Lifetime Artistic Achievement
6. Alison Duke - 2019 ByBlacks People's Choice Award Winner, Best Film Director
7. Ali Kazimi - 2019 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Filmmaker and Media Artist
8. Gertrude Kearns - 2019 Member of the Order of Canada / Visual Artist
9. Andrew James Paterson - 2019 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
10. Midi Onodera - 2018 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Media Artist
11. Adrian Stimson - 2018 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Visual and Performance Artist
12. Marcus Youssef - 2017 Siminovitch Prize for Theatre Laureate, Playwright
13. George Elliott Clarke - 2017-16 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
14. Mike Hoolboom - 2017 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Filmmaker
15. Christopher House, C.M. - 2017 Member of the Order of Canada / Choreographer 
16. Glenn Lewis - 2017 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Visual Artist
17. Colleen Murphy - 2016 & 2007 Governor General’s Award for Literary Merit, Drama
18. Emma Donoghue - 2016 Nominated for Academy Award - Best Adapted Screenplay / 2010 Finalist, Man Booker Prize
19. Jayce Salloum - 2014 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Media Artist
20. Peggy Baker CM, O.Ont, LLD, DLitt - 2009 Governor General’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance
21. Adrianne Pieczonka, O.C. FRSC - 2008 Officer of the Order of Canada / Opera Singer / Chair in Voice, Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music
22. Lata Pada - 2008 Member of the Order of Canada, Choreographer / Dancer
23. Eric Metcalfe, R.C.A., LL, lit - 2008 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Interdisciplinary Artist
24. Vera Frenkel - 2006 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Multidisciplinary Artist
25. Paul Wong - 2005 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Video Artist
26. Vern Thiessen - 2003 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, Drama
27. Jamelie Hassan - 2001 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Visual Artist
28. Djanet Sears - 1998 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, Drama
29. Colleen Wagner - 1996 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, Drama
30. Judy Rebick - Writer
31. Lillian Allen - Poet / Writer / Performer
32. Rosa John - Artistic Director, Kehewin Native Dance Theatre
33. John Greyson - Video / Film Artist
34. Richard Fung - Professor Emeritus, Ontario College of Art & Design Univ.
35. Carole Conde - Independent Artist
36. Karl Beveridge - Independent Artist
37. Min Sook Lee - Filmmaker / Teacher
38. Indu Vashist - Director, South Asian Visual Arts Centre
39. Peter Morin - Faculty of Art, Ontario College of Art & Design University
40. Giovanna Riccio - Poet
41. Krisztina Szabo - Opera Singer
42. Carol Podedworny - Director, McMaster Museum of Art
43. Devyani Saltzman - Director of Programming, Art Gallery of Ontario
44. Gerald Beaulieu - Visual Artist / Former President CARFAC National
45. Peter McGillivray - Baritone / Opera Singer / Council Member, Canadian Actor’s Equity Assoc.
46. Sylvie Meste - Directrice générale, Conseil Québécois du Théâtre
47. Anne Bertrand - Director, Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference
48. April Britski - National Executive Director, CARFAC
49. Maegen Black - Director, Canadian Crafts Federation / Freelance Author
50. Scott McLeod - Editor, Prefix Magazine
51. Sarindar Dhaliwal - Visual Artist
52. Florence MacDonald - Playwright
53. Andrea Fatona - Professor, Ontario College of Art & Design University
54. Peter Flemming - Actor
55. Pierre-André Doucet - Pianist / Co-directeur artistique, Été musical de Barachois
56. Julien LeBlanc - Concert Pianist / Co-Artistic Director, Barachois Summer Music
57. Chris Tolley - Playwright / Artistic Director, Expect Theatre
58. Narendra Pachkhede - Writer / Artist
59. Clive Robertson - Artist / retired Art History Professor, Queens University
60. Judith Marcuse, LL.D.(Hon.) - International Centre of Art for Social Change
61. Marie Magistry - Singer
62. Dot Tuer - Writer / Cultural Historia
63. Brenda Longfellow - Independent Artist
64. Glen Richards - Independent Artist
65. Lisa Myers - Artist / Curator / Ass. Professor, York University
66. Chantal Dionne - Soprano / Voice Teacher
67. Kyo Maclear - Writer
68. Lee Williams - Interdisciplinary Artist
69. John Farah - Musician
70. Stéphanie Pothier - Mezzo-Soprano / Classical Singer
71. Elisa Paloschi - Filmmaker
72. Jennifer Dysart - Filmmaker
73. Sky Gilbert - Writer
74. Catherine Hahn - Designer
75. Paul Kirby - Caravan Stage Society
76. Adriana Kelder - Caravan Stage Society
77. Susan Lord - Professor, Queens University, Cultural Studies
78. Ron Burnett - Writer / Media Practitioner
79. Hank Bull - Independent Artist
80. Penny Joy - Documentary Video Producer
81. Ron Benner - Film / Design
82. Velcrow Ripper - Filmmaker
83. Nova Ami - Filmmaker
84. Marcia Johnson - Playwright / Actor / Dramaturge / Audiobook director / Activist
85. Alexis O'Hara - Interdisciplinary Artist
86. Sydney Lancaster - Artist
87. Dennis Day - Artist/ Editor/ Educator
88. b.h. Yael - Media / Visual Artist, Ontario College of Art & Design University
89. Antoine Bourges - Film Director, University of British Columbia
90. Jessie Golem - Photographer
91. Pam Patterson -  Performance / Visual Artist, Ontario College of Art & Design Univ.
92. Andrea Cohen-B - Director, Meta4films
93. Dirk Van Stralen - Independent Artist / Theatre Practitioner
94. Atefeh Khademolreza - Video Artist
95. Sally Lee - Musician / Arts Manager / Board Member, Wavelength, and CONTACT Photography Festival
96. Elaine Brière - Filmmaker / Photographer
97. Jude Griebel - Visual Artist
98. Henry Tsang - Artist / Assoc. Professor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
99. Reid Shier - Director / Curator, Polygon Gallery
100. Cornelia Wyngaarden - Independent Artist
101. Mark Parlett - Independent Artist / Musician
102. Liz Park - Curator, UB Buffalo Art Galleries
103. Tazeen Qayyum - Independent Visual Artist
104. Marc Glassman - Writer / Editor
105. Judy Wolfe - Writer
106. Demetra Christakos - Director / Curator
107. Rina Fraticelli - Director
108. Stefan St-Laurent - Artist / Curator / Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa
109. Bryan Mulvihill - Independent Artist / Curator 
110. Julia Hutchings - Filmmaker
111. Joanne Tod - Independent Artist
112. Scott Marsden - Independent Curator
113. Phinder Dulai - Author / Editor
114. Nadia Myre - Independent Artist
115. Shawna Dempsey - Independent Artist
116. Lorri Millan - Independent Artist
117. Bogdan Luca - Painter
118. Rafael Goldchain - Photographer / Professor, Sheridan College, Faculty of Animation Arts and Design
119. Gary Kibbins - Video Artist / Teacher, Queens University, Film & Media
120. Brian Kelly - Independent Artist     
121. Barbara Evans - Filmmaker / Professor
122. Catherine Osborne - Writer / Editor
123. Ananya Ohri - Independent Cultural Worker / Producer
124. Aaron Rotenberg - Media Artist / Spiritual Leader
125. Faisal Anwar - New Media / Interactive Artist
126. Rosemary Heather - Arts Journalist
127. Lynne Fernie - Artist / Filmmaker / Programmer
128. Makiko Hara - Independent Curator
129. Gary Varro - Artistic Director, Q City Cinema and Performatorium 
130. Sue Donaldson - Arts Administrator
131. Christian Bernard - Singer, Independent Artist
132. Scott Miller Berry - Filmmaker / Cultural Worker
133. Frances Loeffler - Curator
134. Ann MacDonald - Director / Curator
135. Peggy Gale - Independent Curator / Arts Writer
136. Penelope Stewart - Visual Artist
137. Bruce Barber - Independent Artist
138. David Lester - Graphic Novelist
139. Taien Ng-Chan - Independent Artist
140. Flavio Belli - Independent Artist / Curator / Collector
141. Jason St-Laurent - Curator
142. Lisa Deanne Smith - Curator, Onsite Gallery
143. Milly Ristvedt - Self-employed Visual Artist
144. Michelle Gay - Independent Artist / Educator
145. Shannon Coates, DMA - Voice Educator
146. Sharlene Bamboat - Artist / Cultural Worker
147. Su Ditta - Curator / Arts Administrator
148. Don Bouzek - 2014 City of Edmonton Award of Excellence / 2005 Alberta Centennial Medal / Artist
149. Elia Kirby - Great Northern Way Scene Shop and Arts Factory Society
150. Vincenzo Pietropaolo - Photographer / Writer
151. Pam Harris - Documentary Photographer / Writer
152. Shirley Yanover - Visual Artist
153. Steve Stober - Photographer
154. Karen Knights - Archive Manager, VIVO Media Arts Centre
155. Rahul Varma - Playwright / Theatre Director, Teesri Duniya
156. Betty Julian - Independent Curator / Adjunct Curator, Prefix ICA
157. Ashes Withyman - Visual Artist
158. Susan Crean - Writer
159. Hamal Docter - Arts Policy Consultant
160. Gita Hashemi - Independent Artist / Curator / Writer
161. Francesca Vivenza - Mixed-media Artist
162. Gary Magwood - Belleville Downtown Documentary Film Festival
163. Michael Mirolla - Writer / Publisher, Guernica Editions
164. Bryant Didier - Evolutionary Music Cooperative - EvMc
165. Meg MacKay - Screenwriter
166. Jennifer Smith - Distribution, Video Pool Media Arts Centre / Independent Curator
167. Michael Trommer - Sound Artist, Ontario College of Art & Design University
168. Camille Turner - Media and Performance Artist / Curator
169. Erin Ball - Circus Artist / Owner, Kingston Circus Arts
170. Jason Britski - Filmmaker
171. Christine Swintak - Artist / Educator / Creative Consultant
172. Kevin Barrett - Musician, CFM Toronto Local 149
173. Robin Moir - President, CFM, Local 518
174. Susie Moore - Kingston Musicians’ Union, Local 518
175. Claudia Leduc - Multi-media Coordinator
176. Sky Goodden - Publisher of Momus, Editor / Critic
177. Norm Foster - Playwright / Actor
178. Anna Chatterton - Playwright
179. Sunny Drake - 2019 Stratford Festival Playwright in-residence
180. Pierre-Luc Landry - Writer
181. Colin Miner - Artist / Educator
182. Steve Bates - Artist / Musician
183. Denise Young - Picture this…Film Festival, Calgary
184. Jeffrey Stonehouse - Flutist / Artistic Director, Ensemble Paramirabo
185. Kristina Lemieux - Executive Director, Generator
186. Carmen Gibbs - Directrice générale, Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick
187. Eleanor King - Independent Artist / Teacher
188. Catherine Ballachey - President, LMDA Canada Board
189. Matt McGeachy - Company Dramaturge, Factory Theatre
190. Megan Johnson - Performance Scholar / Dramaturg
191. Marie Barlizo - Playwright
192. David Geary - Playwright / Dramaturg / Educator, Capilano University
193. Joanna Garfinkel - Freelance Dramaturg
194. Lindsay Lachance - Artistic Associate, National Arts Centre, Indigenous Theatre
195. Pearl Van Geest - Independent Artist / Teacher
196. Paula Murray - Independent Artist
197. Alexandra Gelis - Independent Media Artist
198. Judy Radul - Artist /Professor, School of Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser Univ.
199. Tam-Ca Vo-Van - Director, SAW Gallery
200. Karen Kaeja - 2019 Dance Ontario's Lifetime Achievement Award
201. Allen Kaeja - 2019 Dance Ontario's Lifetime Achievement Award
202. Andrea Donaldson - Artistic Director, Nightwood Theatre
203. Melissa R Knive - Artist, Wolf Ears Art
204. Allison Cushing - Music Yukon / Yukon Arts Foundation,
205. Andrea Clark - Caravan Stage Company
206. Dave Babcock - Musician
207. Maria Dunn - 2017 Juno-nominated Songwriter, Edmonton Music Prize Artist
208. Bob Tildesley - Musician
209. Dana Wylie - 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award-nominated Musician
210. Patricia Darbasie - Actor
211. Jane Heather - Theatre Artist
212. Brooke Leifso - Theatre Artist
213. Mieko Ouchi - Theatre Artist / Writer
214. Kate Ryan - Actor / Theatre Director
215. Brian Deedrick - Opera and Theatre Director
216. Tim Yakimec - Artistic Director, Edmonton Opera
217. Karen Bishop - Visual Artist / Alberta Arts Action
218. Jill Thomson - Visual Artist / Co-founder, Alberta Arts Action
219. Trisia Eddy - Visual Artist / Writer / Alberta Arts Action
220. Mary Joyce - Visual Artist
221. Jannie Edwards - Writer / Editor/ Teacher
222. Paula E. Kirman - Writer / Photographer / Musician
223. Myrna Kostash - Writer
224. Alice Major - First Poet Laureate City of Edmonton / Founder, Edmonton Poetry Festival
225. Lorna Thomas - Chair, Documentary Organization of Canada-Alberta / Filmmaker
226. Ava Karvonen - Filmmaker
227. Conni Massing - Playwright / Screenwriter
228. Kenneth T. Williams - Playwright / Dramaturg
229. Denise Roy - Arts Manager, Alberta Arts Action
230. Debbie Houle - 2005 Juno Nominee for Aboriginal Recording of the Year as a member of Asani
231. Anna Marie Sewell - 2011 Poet Laureate City of Edmonton
232. Marek Tyler - 2020 Juno Nominee Indigenous Music Album of the Year as a member of nêhiyawak
233. Sophy Romvari - Film / Design
234. Justine A. Chambers - Contemporary Dance Artist
235. Daniel Akira Stadnicki - Musician
236. Yvonne Ng - 2016 Jacqueline Lemieux Award, Canada Council for the Arts
237. Belinda Cornish - Actor / Writer
238. Collette "Coco" Murray - 2019 Toronto Arts Foundation Community Arts Award / Dance Educator
239. Johanna Householder - Artist / Professor Emerita, OCAD University
240. Pamela Tzeng - Independent Artist / Dancers’ Studio West
241. Kristi Hanson - Actor
242. P. Megan Andrews - Dance Artist
243. Jason Hardwick - Actor
244. Ame Henderson - Choreographer
245. Robert Binet - Creative Producer of CreativAction, The National Ballet of Canada
246. Kevin Ormsby - Dance Artist / Choreographer / Artistic Director, KasheDance
247. Sheldon Elter - Actor
248. Mary Jo Major - Writer
249. Christine Hanson - Cellist / Composer
250. Caterina Edwards - Writer
251. Colleen Huston - Visual Artist
252. Marce Merrell - Writer
253. Sydney Lancaster - Visual Artist
254. Miriam Dunn - Poet
255. Maurice Mierau - Poet
256. Lana St-Louis
257. Valentin Brown - Independent Artist
258. Mitchell Ellam - Executive Director, White Water Gallery, North Bay
259. Ayumi Goto - Independent Artist
260. Cari Green - Film Producer
261. Michelle van Beusekom - Executive Director, Documentary Organization of Canada
262. Anna Mae Alexander - Producer / Actor
263. Maggie MacKenzie - Actor
264. Kurt Archer - Playwright / Director / Actor
265. Aurora Borin - Musician
266. Ariella Pahlke - Video artist / Curator
267. Jessica Hallenbeck - Lantern Films
268. Bill Kimball - Public Energy: Artistic and Executive Director, Performing Arts
269. Gabe Pollock - Journalist
270. Chad Hogan - Market Hall Performing Arts
271. Kate Story - Dancer / Writer / Actor / Director
272. Peg McCraken - Peterborough Singers
273. Vonnie Von Helmolt - Film Producer
274. Nadine Changfoot - Professor Trent University, Art and Disability / Dance / Film
275. Alex Bierk - Visual Artist
276. Elisha Rubacha - Writer / Publisher
277. Lesley Fletcher - Executive Director, League of Canadian Poets
278. Rajinderpal S. Pal - Poet
279. Colin Wolf - Artistic Director, Gwaandak Theatre, Whitehorse
280. Keith Barker - Artistic Director, Native Earth Performing Arts
281. Merit Jensen Carr - Merit Motion Pictures
282. Shani K Parsons - Director, Critical Distance Centre for Curators
283. David Balzer - Writer
284. John Monteith - Artist
285. P Elaine Sharpe - Independent Artist
286. Lin Gibson - Writer / Editor
287. Dr Alexandra Fol - Compositrice agréée du Centre de musique canadienne