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
Susan McCallum and Sho Sho Esquiro
Susan and Sho Sho are a mother and daughter team. Sho Sho, Kaska Dene and Scottish, is a fashion designer and artist. Susan has worked extensively illustrating Native Language programs, as a painter and has worked for TV in green screen and has done limited animation for Sesame Street. Both… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Papier-Mâché Sculptures with Helen O’Connor
Using papier-mâché, participants will learn to design and make a realistic three dimensional sculpture (or prop) for any theme or topic. The design process begins with drawing all sides of the subject. Discussion of scale, shape, engineering and colour will follow as well as step by step demos of the process from creating a structure with cardboard to adding detail features such as whiskers and hinges. Options for decorating will be demonstrated, for example: types of paint and colour mixing, the use of brushes, fabric and decorative paper as well as other embellishments and features such as fur scraps, beads,… 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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