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 2024-25 school year 48 artists and arts groups travelled the Yukon to deliver over 4,100 arts encounters to elementary and secondary school students.
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Featured Artist
Kim Rogers
Kim Rogers is a long time Yukoner, mom and musician with over 20 years of experience in the counselling field. Kim is inspired and engaged in guiding people through various creative activities that help them achieve positive identity, increased wellness, meaning and clarity in navigating the challenges of life. The activities… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Yukon Photography and Filmmaking with Peter Mather
The class begins with a showing of Yukon made movies and slideshow. Wewalk through the first steps of a photography or film project project. We will discuss finding and planning a story, fleshing out the logistics of how long it will take, what images you’ll need to share the story, and figuring out how you will tell the story. We will then examine a few case studies of successful photography projects and the details of how and why they were successes.
We dive into the nitty-gritty of documenting your story. This is where you can really let your creativity fly!… 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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