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
Shakat Media inc.
The Shakat Team has been delivering professional photography services for over 15 years, video production for 7 years, and film production for 4 years. With a strong focus on documentary filmmaking and storytelling, Shakat Media Inc. has produced works like The Fire Dancer, a 3-minute mini film, and Finding Peace,… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Pottery in the Classroom with Patrick Royle
Through speaking, demonstration, and hands on experience, Patrick gives a short introduction to clay. Most classes focus on hand building, unless there is a specific request by a small group to use the wheel. Pieces are made in classes and then fired. School kilns are used where possible; if none is available, arrangements can be made to fire the pieces at Raven Pottery. A second class can be arranged to apply glazes, in which case a second firing will be required. Unglazed works might be stained prior to firing, or they might be painted afterwards under the teacher’s supervision. Raku… 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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