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
Lisa Preto
Lisa Preto started trapping about 10 years ago. She started making ruffs and mitts with the fur for family and friends, and quickly grew a small business sewing fur products made for the north.
She was one of the main organizers of “Unfurled” in 2017, and is part of the team working on building a social enterprise… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Cardboard Creatures with Meshell Melvin
Creatures real or imagined will be built using corrugated paper, newspaper, white glue and masking tape. The familiarity of the materials provides a gentle path into the basic principles of sculpture. The transformation of our constant cardboard companion brings the common place to life.
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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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