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Featured Artist
Linda Leon
Linda Leon lives in Whitehorse. She works two dimensionally in paint, collage and drawing. For the past three years, she has been exploring relief printmaking.
Majoring in painting, Linda Leon graduated with a Degree in Fine Arts from University of Manitoba in 1974. She continued with her art practice despite a…
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Featured Program
Make a Recycled Plastic Kite! with Nicole Bauberger
Nicole has patterns for a sled kite that she’s tested out. Students will trace copies of the pattern then piece the kites together with tape. We'll add bamboo poles, kite string, tails and do a test flight.
Kite Materials: students bring in clean film plastic from their family waste stream. It’s kinda gross to clean someone else’s film plastic but not too gross to clean your own. Bags from candy, nuts, apples, toilet paper, you name it. (Ideally it’s heavier in weight than saran wrap.)
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Community School Touring Program
The Community School Touring Program sends performance artists to every Yukon community school. The goal of this program is to expose children to types of performance art they may not regularly encounter, with preference given to acts that have an educational component.
CSTP impacts hundreds of students each year and provides important and inspiring opportunities for youth in Yukon communities.
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About Artist in the School
The Artist in the School program (AIS) provides Yukon school children with the opportunity to be instructed and inspired by practicing artists and to learn to work with a variety of art forms and media. It is available to all Yukon elementary and secondary schools, including 18 schools in Whitehorse and 14 in the communities.
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