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
Mark Rutledge
Mark Rutledge, CGD™ is one of Canada’s design leaders with deep roots and experience designing for North America's Indigenous communities and organizations. He is currently the Lead Designer at Animikii, Inc., working with many Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations helping First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. He has helped design websites… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Songwriting for the Very Young with Michael Brooks
In a fun-filled 40 minutes, Michael Brooks uses the format of his successful "Literacy Theatre Program" to show children how to write a song. The program is structured, orderly, sequential and yet at the same time, very creative and artistic. He begins by reading a story to the students. He brings overheads of the story's illustrations so that the pictures can be projected on a screen for the whole class to see. After the story is read he proceeds in an orderly fashion to guide the students through the process of writing a song about the story. The steps are… 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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