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 2023-24 school year 37 artists travelled the Yukon to deliver over 2,300 arts encounters to elementary and secondary school students.
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Featured Artist
Al McKee
AL is a multidisciplinary artist based in Edmonton, AB. AL works mainly in mixed media and acrylic painting, with experience as a playwright and performer. AL has participated in interdisciplinary space activations (Interactive performances) through Nextfest Arts Co. in Edmonton AB, as well as being a featured visual artist in… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Make a Recycled Plastic Kite! with Nicole Bauberger
Nicole has patterns for a sled kite that she’s tested out. Students will trace copies of the pattern then piece the kites together with tape. We'll add bamboo poles, kite string, tails and do a test flight.
Kite Materials: students bring in clean film plastic from their family waste stream. It’s kinda gross to clean someone else’s film plastic but not too gross to clean your own. Bags from candy, nuts, apples, toilet paper, you name it. (Ideally it’s heavier in weight than saran wrap.)
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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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