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
Marty Samis
For over two decades I have been passionate about photography and I've honed my craft across diverse realms of visual storytelling. My professional journey began capturing the intimate moments of weddings and portrait photography. I've also lent my expertise as a darkroom manager, and in digital photo editing and restoration.… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Here We Go Anthropocene! with Carolyn Simmons with
Students will have the experience of making a ‘fossil’, in this sculpture project. To do this, a mold making process will be used. Using clay, each student will build a flat, irregularly shaped shallow rectangle and mark the bottom and side surfaces using a variety of items used in everyday life, such as pens, toy cars, plastic forks, bottle tops, etc. – the kinds of things which are discarded in our every day life, and which one day may appear in the fossil record. Plaster will be poured into the clay mold, left to harden, removed, and the positive plaster… 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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