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
Katelyn Clark
Kate has worked as a K-7 Arts Educator, and a 9-12 Drama, Textiles, and English Teacher in both the Yukon and British Columbia. They have a BEd, with a specialization in secondary theatre and humanities, from UBC. Their education and work experience outside of schools is in… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Wet and/or Needle Wool Felting with Shiela Alexandrovich
Explore wet or needle felting techniques using local wool from my sheep. Projects range from balls, pencil coats for young kids, to wall hangings for older students. Needle felting is usually flat work pictures. I will tailor projects to class needs, and minimal 1 hour for younger grades and 1.5-2 hours for Wallhangings with older grades.
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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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