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
Jake Paleczny
I have a Bachelor of Music in theory and composition. My primary instrument is clarinet, but I now primarily play bass clarinet. I'm currently playing with a local rap band called Clout Game, as well as the jazz-fusion band Muster Point. I have been playing regularly with the Problematic Orchestra… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Glass Blowing with Lumel Studios - (Small Group) with Luann Baker-Johnson and Lumel Studios
Lumel Studios Hot Shop provides tours, demonstrations and workshops designed for secondary and elementary school groups. These programs introduce glass blowing history and techniques to foster visual literacy in students, encouraging them to find pleasure and meaning in art, and to think critically about the pursuit of art as well, as the potential to create work with HOT glass. Glass Blowing Workshop: Science lesson, safety session, and tour. One creation per person with full studio use. Razzel dazzle is time allows. Creations to be picked up the following day. Please note this workshop features 3-4 instructors teaching simultaneously to ensure… 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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