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
Leslie Leong
Leslie Leong has two photography books to her credit on Canada's Northwest Territories. The results of her camera and pen show up in Northern Canadian books, magazines and other publications. Her art practice also includes ceramics, silversmith work, painting, illustration & sculpture, with an emphasis on reclaimed & recycled materials.… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Bogolan t-shirts with Ssasi Mahamadou Sangaré
Students will render a design on their t-shirts with mud (imported from Mali, West Africa) – by painting it on with hands or through the use of stencils. Their 100% cotton white or pale coloured t-shirts must be provided a week in advance in order for a traditional (and organic) pre-treatment made from steeped leaves to be applied. After the class has completed applying the mud the t-shirts will be taken home by Ssasi and returned washed (to remove the mud) and dried. This can be the following day or arrangements can be made to wash them at the school.
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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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