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
Rebecca Reynolds - NLSD
Rebecca is the Principal and ballet master at the Northern Lights School of Dance. She began her Cecchetti Ballet training at the age of 3 at the Red Deer School of Ballet under the instruction of Irene Weatherilt. She began teaching at age 14 and went on to obtain her Dance Diploma from Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. Rebecca joined the cast of the Frantic Follies in Whitehorse in 2000-2006 working her way to the… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Colour Mixing Magic with Meshell Melvin with Meshell Melvin
This program is an introduction into the basics of colour theory, and the colour wheel. Using the primary colours and white, a pallet knife and pallet, the students will mix colour to make their own small colour wheel, and then make a painting using the colours they have mixed.
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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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