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
Shakat Media inc.
The Shakat Team has been delivering professional photography services for over 15 years, video production for 7 years, and film production for 4 years. With a strong focus on documentary filmmaking and storytelling, Shakat Media Inc. has produced works like The Fire Dancer, a 3-minute mini film, and Finding Peace,… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Northern Adventure Books with Susan McCallum and Sho Sho Esquiro
Book reading with Artist and writer followed by an art activity. Susan will share her working sketches and her process illustrating children's books with the class. Sho Sho and Susan will provide high quality pencil crayons with shading techniques, story boarding and optional tiny books created by the students.
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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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