CAAF provides a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community where all staff, volunteers and artists feel valued and respected regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education or disability.

CAAF is committed to a non-discriminatory approach and values diverse life experiences and heritages as integral to the foundation mission.

To provide informed, authentic leadership for cultural equity, CAAF:

• Views diversity, inclusion, and equity as critical to CAAF’s mission.

• Reviews, acknowledges, and restructures any inequities within CAAF’s guidelines, processes, programs, and services to ensure diversity and inclusion.

• Explores potential underlying collective assumptions that interfere with inclusiveness and addresses them accordingly.

• Implements Board-level thinking about how systemic inequities impact CAAF’s work, and how best to address that in a way that is consistent with CAAF’s mission.

• Practices and encourages transparent communication in all interactions.

• Leads with respect and tolerance.

CAAF commits to the following operational actions to help promote diversity and inclusion:

1. Pursuing cultural competency by creating non-discriminatory residency and exhibition opportunities, and transparent guidelines.

2. Improving our cultural leadership message by supporting/encouraging programs that reflect the diversity of Canadian society.

3. Partnering and connecting with other arts organizations committed to diversity and inclusion in an effort to expand CAAF’s purview.

4. Developing Board recruitment and jury selection processes that mitigate bias.