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.
Meet our artists › View our programs ›
Featured Artist
Caitlin Irvine
Caitlin was born in Saskatchewan but raised a Yukoner. She grew up in the small Yukon community of Faro, on an acreage located on the Magundy River. Caitlin has dabbled in arts and crafts her whole life, she was raised by her Mother (the notable Yukon Artist Jackie Dowell-Irvine) and… Learn more ›
-
Featured Program
Percussion Horizons with Ken Searcy
Ken will demonstrate and explain the different percussion instruments (concert band, orchestra, rudimental drumming, marching percussion, mallet instruments, drum set), demonstrate the different performance techniques relating to the instrument and style, as well as relating his real world experience to give the students an idea of opportunities available to them if they wish to choose a career in music.
Learn more › -
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.
Learn more › -
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.
Learn more ›