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
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
Lights, Camera, Action: Making a Commercial with Rebecca Law
Bring your English class, creative writing, or careers lesson to life with this hands-on and engaging workshop. Rebeca will help students create a commercial on a topic area of choice and guide them through the creative process- from creating a jingle and recording it in a portable studio, to filming the project.
Rebecca provides the equipment and will help students learn:
Storyboarding Scripting Setting up a makeshift green screen room Sounds Lighting Directing Camera work using a phone Editing in Adobe Premiere Jingle writing and recording
Other virtual art projects are also available (examples include digital poetry, cartoon and comic book… 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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