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…
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Featured Program
Ultralight Art: Watercolour Painting for Outdoor Adventures with Stephanie Ryan
Students will learn how to create a sketch from an idea or feature from their surrounding landscape/envrioment.
What do students want to highlight, remember, map out, document, embellish or illustrate? What persepctive or emotion do they want to convey? The students will learn how to use the medium of watercolour to convey their ideas.
This workshop is focused on creating illustrated trip journals on outdoor adventures using a lightweight art kit for backpacking.
Learning outcomes:
Learn how to plan and sketch ideas/ landscape features; the importance of perspective, balance and layout. Learn how to use watercolour paints; adding colour to painting…
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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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