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
Violetta Umanes
Violetta is a seasoned dance instructor and choreographer with over 25 years of experience, specializing in Street styles. Her journey in dance began at the age of 10, deeply influenced by the old school generation of Ukrainian dancers and pioneers of street dance. Violetta's expertise extends across multiple street styles… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Bokeh Filter Project with Marty Samis
The Bokeh Filter Project is a unique photo project designed to inspire students' creativity and enhance their photography skills. In this project, students will have the opportunity to create their own bokeh filter to fit on a camera lens and use it to create portraits or photograph objects based on the theme of their filter.
The project starts with an introduction to bokeh, a popular photography technique that produces a beautiful, blurred background effect. Students will learn about the essential elements that contribute to achieving bokeh, such as aperture settings and the distance between the subject and the background.
Once… 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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