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
Jackie Irvine
“ Make each day your work of art. Be true to yourself, Help others and Give thanks. ”
I am an artist living in the Yukon - Canada's Far North. My joy is to create authentic, beautiful & original paintings; am mostly self-taught. I have been painting seriously for about… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Painting with Nicole Bauberger
Nicole can design a painting or drawing workshop to suit the needs, curriculum objectives and available materials for any class. She’s experienced in oil, acrylic and encaustic painting, as well as drawing with charcoal and group projects. Contact her and dream something up.
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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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