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Our Leadership

Honorary Patron

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, 17ᵗʰ Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Board of Directors

Michael Wernick, Chair of the Board
23rd Clerk of the Privy Council
Former Deputy Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs

Gina Jones CPA, CA CF, ICD.D, Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer, Pender Growth Fund Inc.

Ann Davis, PhD, Secretary, 
Director Emeritus of The Nickel Arts Museum
Former professor of Cultural Studies, University of Calgary

Darcy Morris, Director
CEO and Co-Founder of Ewing Morris & Co. Investment Partners

Malea Richardson, MBA, Director
Vice President of Strategy at Agi3,

Corey Timpson, Director
Director, Corey Timpson Design Inc. 

STAFF

Jessica Vellenga, Interim Executive Director

Our Donors

Founding partner

  • We are grateful for the generosity of Founding Donors – early supporters committing $100,000 or more

    Ewing Morris & Co.
    Richardson Family

  • Five B Family Foundation
    Mr. Lawson Hunter, C.M., K.C., LL.D.
    Lassonde Family Foundation
    Ottawa Community Foundation
    Power Corporation of Canada
    Stonecroft Foundation
    Von Mandl Foundation

  • Richard J. Currie
    Donner Canadian Foundation
    Anonymous

  • Clarus Foundation
    Corient
    Hudson’s Bay Foundation
    Jackman Foundation 
    John McCall MacBain
    Rupert Duchesne
    Scott Thomson
    The Sobey Art Foundation
    Trinity Development Foundation
    Anonymous

  • Bell Canada
    The Honourable Patricia Bovey
    Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts
    Walter Duncan Gordon Foundation 

  • Sara Angel, Ph. D.
    Vincent Baulne-Charland
    Mirko Bibic
    Bonnie Brownlee and William Fox
    William Braithwaite
    Barry Campbell
    Robert Campbell
    Conam Charitable Foundation
    Ann Davis, Ph. D.
    Chris Docherty
    Steve Gallant
    Shirley Greenberg
    Susan Hutton
    John Jussup
    William Linton
    James et Danielle MacDonald
    Ron Mannix
    Nancy McCain
    The Right Honourable Beverley McLachin
    Nicholas McHaffie
    Jane & Peter Nicholson Foundation
    Peter Nicholson Jr. (WCPD)
    Sarah Pepall
    Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
    Mark Schaan
    Sheridan Scott and David Zussman
    Jeffrey Simpson
    Robert Steven
    Michael Tanglao
    Howard Wetston
    Robert Prichard
    Janet Yale

  • Puncture Design

CONTACT US

info@portraitcanada.ca

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Image Credits:

Jocelyn Keays, Untitled, Self-portrait, 2018, Archival inkjet print / Florence Carlyle, Grey and Gold, 1910, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery of Canada / Stephen Stober, Portrait of Gordon Kushner, Professor Royal Conservatory of Music, 1997, Gelatin silver print / Laura Muntz Lyall, A Young Girl in a Red Hat, 1891, Oil on panel, Collection of Loch Gallery / Dainesha Nugent-Palache, As Light as a Paper Bag, 2015, Archival inkjet print / Laurence Philomène, Puberty, 2019–2021, Virtual installation / Oliver Buell, Poundmaker, also known as The Drummer (ca. 1842–1886), Collection of Library and Archives Canada/C-001875 / Ruth Kaplan, Resident, Refugee Shelter, Toronto, 2018, Archival inkjet print / F.H. Varley, Vera, 1931, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery of Canada / Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, Apple Juice, 2020, Archival inkjet print / Christina Hajjar, Illuminations, 2020, Archival inkjet print / Emily Carr, Self Portrait, circa 1938–1939, Oil on wove paper, mounted on plywood, Collection of National Gallery of Canada / Frances Loring, 1959, Collection of Library and Archives Canada/National Film Board / Jean-Sébastien Gauthier, Sample and Hold: self-portrait with model organism, 2017, Digital render from x-ray micro-tomography scans of adult zebrafish and the artist, a collaboration with Dr. Brian Eames / Letitia Fraser, Abundance Everlasting, 2023, Acrylic on quilt / Prudence Heward, Rollande, 1929, Collection of National Gallery of Canada / Erika DeFreitas, arriver avant moi, devant moi, 2019–2020, Archival inkjet prints / Henriette Massüe Le Moine, Théophile Hamel, 1854, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery of Canada / Paraskeva Clark, Myself, 1933, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery of Canada