Become a member of IMAAMembership Application Form for 2019-2020 A full member of the IMAA must support the creation, distribution or presentation of media arts and adhere to the membership criteria based on the IMAA’s founding principles: • Be a non-profit organization, a member-driven co-op or an artist collective • Be artist initiated and controlled • Pay fees to artists • Support sexual and gender equality • Support cultural equity • Support the aims and objectives of the IMAA Benefits of becoming a Member: • Members can have representatives join the IMAA board and are able to sit on, and chair committees and attend regional meetings. • Members have full voting privileges at member meetings and the Annual General Meetings. • Members can apply to the IMAA for travel subsidies to attend the biennial national conference. • Members receive newsletters, memos sent out by their region or by IMAA staff and other communications. • IMAA will advocate for issues that support IMAA’s mandate brought forth by members. Examples of organizations that can apply for a Membership: • A media arts production, exhibition or distribution organization • A not-for-profit media arts collective |
Become an allied member of IMAA
Allied Membership Application Form for 2019-2020 An Allied member is available to all Canadian organizations dedicated to furthering the media arts. This Allied Membership category is an opportunity for cultural organizations that do not meet the above-listed membership criteria but who wish to demonstrate support of the IMAA mandate. The criteria that applies to Allied Members: • Support sexual and gender equality • Support cultural equity • Support the aims and objectives of the IMAA Benefits of becoming an Allied Member: • The cost of an allied annual membership fee is only $25.00. • Allied members may receive newsletters, memos sent out by their region or by IMAA staff and other communications. • Representatives of an allied member organization are able to sit on committees, and attend regional meetings. • IMAA will advocate for issues that support IMAA’s mandate brought forth by allied members. Examples of organizations that can apply for an Allied Membership: • A media arts festival that does not yet pay artist fees. • An artist run centre, gallery or collective that is involved primarily in the visual or performing arts as opposed to the media arts. • An educational or training institution that does not operate as a non-profit organization. |