Inspiring Yukon Students
Artist in the School provides high quality, engaging and culturally diverse programming to students across the Yukon. More than 90 artists offer over 200 different programs.
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Featured Artist
Dale Cooper
Dale has been teaching dance, musical theatre, and drama for over 25 years. She has taught dance at various studios across the country, she taught at Northern Lights School of Dance, the MAD program, still teaches at Leaping Feats, Artist in the School program, After School dance program at Selkirk… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Drawing: Making Your Mark with Ava P. Christl
Drawing is a process of making marks on a page to create an image which could be realistic, imaginary, or abstract. Goal: to understand the uses of different drawing tools such as pencils, graphite, ink and charcoal. Each tool offers a range of ways to use it. This class will explore and experiment with different drawing materials and tools. Each class will have a project topic or theme to be decided on in class and will have a finished drawing to take home.
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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 18 schools in Whitehorse and 14 in the communities. In 2018-19, more than 50 AIS artists travelled to every Yukon community to deliver over 5100 arts encounters for students.
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