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
Rebecca Law
Rebecca Law has worked as an animator, short film producer, recording artist, vocalist, song engineer, and songwriter for the past 15 years. She has collaborated with many artists, musicians and producers, and worked in many classrooms across the Yukon.
She is able to engage students with wide range of learning levels, and her positivity and professionalism are infectious.
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Featured Program
Rubbings, Stencilling and Stamping with Found Objects with Linda Leon
The goal of this class is to develop creativity and resourcefulness through the use of everyday object to create art. It will also help children notice negative and positive shapes.
The children will use a combination of three techniques to create images. The children will do rubbings of surfaces or materials with texture. This could be nameplates, floor textures, grates or found objects such as heavy lace, leaves in the fall and anything with a raised texture in their environment. Wax crayons will be used to create the image. Water-based tempera paint which is repelled by waxy areas, will be used… 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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