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
Portrait Drawing from Life with Linda Leon
Program description: The goal of this class is to teach observation to children through portraiture. The children will be paired. Each of them is tasked with making a portrait of their partner. They will be encouraged to notice the posture of their partner, what their partner is wearing and any other personal details. They are also encouraged to consider what the character of their partner is, to move beyond just what they see. If the extended version of this class is done, some of the character work can be done with collage. This is a quick class so the children… Learn more ›
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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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