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
Mark Rutledge
Mark Rutledge, CGD™ is one of Canada’s design leaders with deep roots and experience designing for North America's Indigenous communities and organizations. He is currently the Lead Designer at Animikii, Inc., working with many Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations helping First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. He has helped design websites… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Tell the Story: A Salmon Tale with Kelly Lynn Scott
Learn about the keystone species- salmon- and find out more about overharvesting, climate stress, large females, and more! Finish off by telling the story in a crankie storybox. Crankies are an old storytelling artform where the scroll of paper moves (is cranked) across the viewing window to tell a story. Themes and Topics to choose from: Migration and the Yukon River Life cycle Climate change What happened to salmon over the last few decades? 7 year Moratorium on Chinook salmon Obstacles to survival Format: Meet the River:… 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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