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
Cat Kelly
Cat Kelly wanted to be a writer when she grew up. She loved stories, especially the ones about dragons and the princesses that slay them. While studying Journalism at Carleton University, she realized you can be many, many things when you grow up: fiction writer, business owner, public speaker, fairy… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Storytelling with Rhoda Merkel
Storytelling is a powerful way to convey abstract concepts indirectly while awakening the imagination. It engages the whole body, is fun and was the first peoples’ way to teach. The "First Peoples Stories" storytelling program is designed to introduce, progressively starting in Kindergarten up to Grade 9, the power of stories and how they shape our lives. The stories told are native to the Yukon and Canada.
All the Stories:
• Create memorable art project students will treasure for life
• Develop fine art skills, creative thinking competencies, and self awareness.
• Can be illustrated into a book or a… 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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