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
Gordie Tentrees
2 X International Acoustic Music Award Winner (IAMA) winner Gordie Tentrees has arrived. This authentic road poet travels North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, UK/Ireland and Scandinavia with 10 records under his belt and over 5000 concerts behind him. From Celtic Connections (UK) to the National Folk Festival (AU) his… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Air Dry Clay Mountain Slabs with Christine Prescott
Students will build a small 3D clay slab sculpture, using various hand building techniques, after first having sketched out their plan on paper. Students will work with the artist to refine their sketch to ensure the design plan has variety to increase interest, and that the structure will be able to free stand. Once the sculpture is dry, the students may wish to add some paint to colour their sculpture.
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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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