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
Amelia Rose Slobogean
Amelia is a classically trained fiddle player with 10 years of teaching experience and 25 years of performing experience. She is the main instructor for fiddle programs in Teslin and Dawson City, and has also worked in the community of Old Crow. She teaches a variety of fiddle styles with… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Music ’n Motion: Early Childhood Music Education with Lianne Cranfield
Music ’n Motion is an early childhood music education program designed to assist children with motor skills, cognition, intelligence, coordination, emotional expression, creativity, self image and socialization. Using a variety of instruments and fun musical themes, children will engage in instrument exploration, vocal exercises, rhythmic play, song, dance and musical stories. This kind of hands-on musical exploration has been found to stimulate every area of the developing brain.
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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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