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
Karen Nicloux
Karen has taught classes at the Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation, the Adaka Festival, the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik and at Arts Underground. Her work is also sold at several Whitehorse galleries, stores and craft sales. She has participated in the Beading and Fur Symposium, and was also… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Farm Felting Visit with Shiela Alexandrovich
Visit our farm, where we raise Icelandic sheep, llamas and use their wool to produce a piece of felt. Ideally a minimum of 3 hours is needed on site to tour and workshop. An extra adult as well as the teacher is needed for larger groups. It is possible to arrange for a camp over for high school grades, which would allow time to also cover needle felting on the piece created.
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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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