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
Cherie Ratte
Cherie is an educator, theatre artist, and creative producer of interactive and participatory theatre. She has created, produced, and performed in several pieces in the Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival (Knocked, 2016; Booked, 2017), as part of Jane’s Walk Calgary (2018, 2019), as well as many collaborative projects performed for and… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Polymer Clay Sculpture and Design with Kim Beggs
Kim will guide students on a journey with polymer clay (ie FIMO, Sculpey, Premo, etc.). Polymer clay is molded by hand and then baked to maintain its form permanently.
Students will bring 2D shapes into 3D forms and learn about color blending and sculpture.
Unique creations made by students can include decorations for Christmas, Easter, Solstice etc, key chains, marbles, knapsack decorations, fridge magnets, beads, broaches, figurines, and more.
NOTE: If multiple classes will be served during Kim’s time at the school, then it is ideal for Kim to be set up in one location which reduces set up / clean up time required.
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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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