Inspiring Yukon Students
Artist in the School provides high quality, engaging and culturally diverse programming in schools across the territory. Over the course of the 2025-26 school year 40 artists and arts groups travelled the Yukon to deliver over 3,500 arts encounters to elementary and secondary school students.
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Featured Artist
Marty Samis
For over two decades I have been passionate about photography and I've honed my craft across diverse realms of visual storytelling. My professional journey began capturing the intimate moments of weddings and portrait photography. I've also lent my expertise as a darkroom manager, and in digital photo editing and restoration.… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Capturing the Yukon Landscape with Jackie Irvine
Jackie will assist, encourage and facilitate the process of each student to create a beautiful work(s) of art. Subjects are the Yukon Landscape in an impressionistic and realistic style. Mixed media: acrylic, oil pastel, glazing mediums and gels are used on canvas with an emphasis on colour, light and texture. This program could be half a day minimum, 2 days or over a week incorporating various techniques and doing a series of works to be discussed with the teacher.
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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 21 schools in Whitehorse and 14 in the communities.
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