An Abundance of Embellishment
The Arts Underground Ceramics Studio: Embellishment exhibition is on display right now and includes works made in the busy ceramics studio…
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Interlacing Herds
The Caribou Art Project brings people into the herd, hoping we will stand together to help the caribou continue.
OUT North Turns 11
The 11th OUT North Queer Film and Arts Festival is happening April 15 to 19 and promises to be the most expansive iteration…
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Drawing Towards Healing
In Outer Space — Inner Space: The Fabric of the Universe, Dawson-based artist Basia Barb Hinton turns her attention to cells and galaxies…
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Reaching Toward relationship to place
Two new exhibitions at Arts Underground feature beautiful artworks that reach towards a sense of place. This kind of reaching…
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Uprooted
As you approach the ODD Gallery in the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture in Dawson City, it might look a bit dim.
open to interpretation
If 10 different people read the same book, they’d actually be reading 10 different books. Sure, there are elements of any story…
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tracy and martina are comin’ north!
Lately, while walking my dog, I’ve been listening to the podcast Shootin’ the Shit, with Tracy and Martina…
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A Gallery and A Garden
IIn 2020, in response to the closing of public spaces due to the pandemic, Nicole Bauberger created a gallery on the trails…
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Shared Territories
Among the four exhibitions that opened Nov. 27 at the Yukon Arts Centre (YAC), the works in Shared Territories have probably been seen…
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Small Treasures for Christmas
This holiday season at the Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery, it’s true that good things come in small packages. The artists in the collective…
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Sandra Storey’s All in the Dance
Discover the magic of play at Sandra Storey’s newest art exhibit where Tinkertoys inspire artistic expression and nostalgia.
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Licensing Paintings Into People’s Lives
At Anto’s new location on Main Street, Kym Rempel offers products by a diverse range of artists and her own brand of soap and bath products
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Shared Humanities
Arts Underground is hosting an exhibition in their new space featuring Yukon youth aged 13 to 18, to display and sell their incredible works
A Journey Through Time And Identity
Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery is hosting a striking and deeply personal exhibition by long-time Yukon resident and artist Marie-Hélène Comeau
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More Than Words
Ernest Chua and Colin Dorward’s Without Saying exhibition is on display at the Yukon Arts Centre until Aug. 29
Unmasking The Everyday
This summer, from June 2 to July 14, YAAW will offer a series of downtown art experiences led by Whitehorse-based artists.
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It’s Not For Everyone
Yukoners might say that a place like SOVA could only exist in Dawson City, where the magic is in creating the impossible “Students tend to
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Fenix House
Explore Fenix House, a vibrant art installation in downtown Whitehorse showcasing creativity through whimsical designs and colors.
The dress that’s always green and other stories
Nicole Bauberger’s The Dress That’s Always Green, a recycled-glass sculpture radiating creativity and sustainability. Northern Front Studio
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In Reverence to Nature
Jackie Olson and David Curtis honor nature’s resilience. Their exhibitions at YAC blend eco-inspired art and collected materials,
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Young digital artist has a new exhibition
Young artist Riley Cyre debuts her digital art exhibition at YAC, blending creativity, emotion, and vibrant storytelling.
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Go Scratch a 500-Year Itch
Shelley Niro’s thought-provoking retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery, examining Indigenous identity, matriarchy, and community through art and storytelling.
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A Rainbow Connection
I encourage you to go enjoy these two voices expressing themselves in colour, form, repetition and variation, in unexpected harmonies.
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Introducing Abundance
The 14 most recent additions to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection (YPAC) are featured in an exhibition titled Abundance,
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Farewell, Lillian
Laponen ended up in the Yukon 45 years ago after bouncing around Canada for a little bit and having three children.
Augusto! Children’s Festival is Back
Bored during the summer? Look no further: Augusto! Children’s Festival will kick off on August 9th. The fifth annual Augusto! Children’s Festival…
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Sentimentality And Our Relationship To Materials
I got some emails back from you! I am so happy and grateful for them. I have gathered them up here and put them to use.
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A Welcome Sign
Nine Yukon artists have been commissioned to create artwork for new signs at the nine key points of entry to the territory.
A Decade Of The Jenni House
The Jenni House Artist Residency is known in the Yukon for providing studio space to artists from the territories, northern BC
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Graduation Regalia Exhibit Going To U.K.
In collaboration with the Yukon Arts Centre and the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, a smaller selection of the Honouring Our Future…
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Off to the Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival
In 2022, Vasht Etzel was part of a cohort sent by Yukon First Nations Culture & Tourism Association and Adäka Cultural Festival…
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Who Do You Think Should Wear This Cloak?
Thanks for tuning in again to the “Material Reculturing” column! As I mentioned in the first column, I’m planning to alternate…
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Finalists Announced for the Arctic Inspiration Prize
As the largest annual prize in Canada, the Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) aims to inspire, enable and celebrate the achievements…
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Moving Between Worlds
For Violet Gatensby, carving feels like going into a different world. It’s not unlike the feeling she used to get as a kid…
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Thrifted and Gifted
When Judy Tomlin sees landfills and thrift stores overflowing with discarded clothing, as a result of the current fast-fashion industry…
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Carbon-Neutral Ham And Other Stories
I have had the good fortune to be selected as an Artist in Residence at Raven ReCentre for two summers now. My work with Zero Waste…
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After The Show
After Escher, a group show presented by the Yukon Artists at Work co-op gallery (YAAW) is coming in February at the Fourth Avenue…
Meet This Year’s Yukon Prize Recipient
Yukon Prize for the Visual Arts co-founders Julie Jai and David Trick announced, during a gala show at the Yukon Arts Centre (YAC)…
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Living On The Edge
Edges is a new solo exhibit by watercolour artist Lauren Waters, which will run throughout October at the Yukon Artists at Work gallery.
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Seizing The Day
Art has always been infused in Leah Day’s life. The abstract surrealist artist, who is also an actor, voice actor, poet, writer and musician…
A Little Art With Your Coffee?
Niki Parry always had a creative itch. The Yukon artist has tried all kinds of different creative endeavours…
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Riverside Arts Festival Returns
The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) has announced the return of the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival (YRAF)…
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An Invitation To The Party
It’s not going to be easy to go into the solo showroom to see The Party, by Whitehorse-based artist Nicole Bauberger…
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Come To The Fire
In 2023, the Yukon Arts Centre (YAC) will invite visitors in by asking them to gather outside. That’s the idea behind a new firepit…
Gwich’in Moccasins
In 1995, the Yukon Arts Centre began acquiring works of art by Indigenous and northern artists—art significant to First Nations…
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The Purolator Artist
Purolator has unveiled this year’s limited-edition holiday art boxes representing all provinces and territories including a Yukon artist.
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When the Mountains Call, Bring Your Sketchbook
When opportunity knocked for Kluane National Park and Reserve to host an Artist in Residence program this past summer, enthusiasm was high.
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At Home With Art
Lemker is at home with art and calls Whitehorse his home, as well as an endless source of inspiration to create.
What’s Going on at KIAC This Fall?
It seems things are finally back in full spring, or fall, after a long two years with limited opportunities for arts and culture events.
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Hecate Press, a stepping stone for northern comic artists
Hecate Press, founded a few years ago by artist Kimberly Edgar, is creating new opportunities for the Yukon’s established and emerging comic artists.
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Arctic Highways Breaks Down Borders
Tomas Colbengston, who takes a lot of inspiration from the Nordic Scandinavian landscape prefers to show his work outdoors.
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Yukon Artists Spotlighted at Vancouver Art Fair
Yukon Artists Spotlighted at Art Vancouver, a 4-day event where artists and gallery owners can show and sell high-quality art.
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Graphic Novel: Journey to Makalu
Artist Esther Bordet visits the same Himalayan summit as her great-uncle, to create a graphic novel based on his travels.
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Yukon Arts Centre Permanent Art Collection: Bella Simo
In 1995, the Yukon Arts Centre began acquiring works by Indigenous and northern art significant to First Nations and northern Canadians.
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Nathalie Parenteau: The Accidental Artist
It was never Nathalie Parenteau’s intention to be an artist. She still views her vocation as something she stumbled upon.
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Spring Reflections in Dawson City
In a previous edition of the KK, I commented on the amount of snow we received here this winter, how it narrowed and raised the
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Mary Caesar: An International Artist Continues to Shine
Splashes of lavish roses, bared teeth of an outraged woman, portraits of people stick gambling—all appear in the paintings of Mary Caesar.
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Monsters Parade Through an Imagined Garden
Nicole Bauberger’s final exhibition as emerging curator at the Yukon Arts Centre Youth Gallery, monsters and flowers created by children.
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A look at the fate of Earth’s other inhabitants, should humanity disappear?
If humanity for some reason disappears, what will become of Earth’s other inhabitants? David Curtis: Shall Inherit at Yukon Arts Centre.
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YAC SHOWCASE Spirit: Alice Park-Spurr
Alice Park-Spurr explores the interplay of line and shape through the gestural application of paint on canvas
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Drop Off Your Recycling, Pick Up Some New Idea
Raven Recycling’s Diversions Art Show. Five undertake projects that make use of materials that are abundant at Raven.
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The Extraordinary First Year of Mésdzįh Eskiye Designs
Cohen Quash is 12, which may make him the youngest fashion designer the Yukon. His Watson Lake business is Mésdzįh Eskiye Designs.
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This Spring at the Jenni House
Jenni house welcomed Paris Pick, working on new songs; & Martha Ritchie, printing on repurposed textiles, as resident artists.
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Inked! The Indelible Art of Tattooing
Chat with artists at Yukon tattoo shops. They’re the most kind & community-minded folks & you might walk out wondering why you don’t have ink.
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Artists inspiring artists
Yukon artists & Yukon Prize for Visual Arts finalists, Krystle Silverfox & Veronica Verkley, talk about who inspires them in art and in life.
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Showcase at The Yukon Arts Centre
Softcore, at the Yukon Arts Centre, is the first exhibition by the Whitehorse-based North Node Collective, featuring Courtney Holmes, Rebecca Manias, Katie Newman and Heather
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Dreamland underground
Yukon Illustration Coalition (YILCO) Dreamland: Demystifying Digital Illustration reveals the digital illustration processes.
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Collective Memory: Forty years of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection
Collective Memory exhibition: Marking the 40th anniversary of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection. Part of Yukon’s dynamic collective memory.
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YAC launches first emerging curators program
Janet Patterson didn’t realize how applicable her journalistic skillset was to art until she co-curated a show at Yukon Artists @ Work (YAAW)
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Abstractions underground: Two artists turn inward with new shows
2 exhibitions at Arts Underground. Focus Gallery, Tedd Tucker’s Winter Sketches. Edge Gallery, Heather Von Steinhagen’s Hidden Details.
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Nourished by Nature
Their practices may seem different – Waters is a watercolour artist, Geary is a potter – their materials are drawn from the same elements.
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Art in the Yukon, art in Montreal: Maybe not so different?
Clarence Epstein argued there are common threads between the situations of artists in the Yukon and artists in Montreal.
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The recipient of the second annual Yukon Prize for Visual Arts is Joseph Tisiga
The winner of the 2021 Yukon Prize for Visual Arts, selected from 107 entries, is multidisciplinary artist Joseph Tisiga
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Fantasy in Miniature
Fantasy in Miniature, brings a little magic. Sharing the Planet features butterflies & moths. Both are at Arts Underground.
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Exploring fading memories at the ODD Gallery
The opening of the recent exhibit at the KIAC ODD Gallery was unique with a mixed live & virtual talk for the Gathering/Tethering exhibit.
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A Klondike Korner: Sometimes life imitates art
Sometimes art imitates life. Sometimes life imitates art. There are two really clear illustrations of this idea in Dawson City at the moment.
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Community Connection: Arts arts arts!
The return to emergency COVID measures took some people by surprise, but it certainly hasn’t got the community down! Performers, artists and presenters alike found
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Watercolour wild roses
Learn & explore drawing and painting in a “wet on wet” watercolour technique. Today’s art is inspired by wild roses.
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Walking the Elements: The Chu Niikwän Artist Residency is back at Arts Underground in Whitehorse
Rebecca Manias, Kim Roberts and Sheelah Tolton: Elemental Transformations. Works from Chu Niikwän Artist Residency
Through a Dark Wood
Jenifer Davidson, Yukon artist, has been creating art for as long as she can remember. More than a hobby, It’s benefitted her mental health.
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Wonders Underground
The Eleventy-Leven postcards are years of original artwork postcards exchanged every Friday between artists Joyce Majiski and Zea Morvitz.
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Yukon Prize for Visual Arts: And the winner is …
The Yukon Prize for Visual Arts provides one prize of $20K to help one Yukon artist focus full-time on creating art.
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A Yukon Horror Story, So Far
Graphic novels are Gallagher’s favourite art form. This exhibit is an artistic journey to produce a horror graphic novel set in the Yukon.
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Theatre in the Bush 2021
Ramshackle Theatre in the Bush “I’m already out in the yard,” Fidler says. “I’ve got my chainsaw out and I’m clearing the paths.”
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Hot Eats Cool Beats: new family fun street eats festival
An expansion of the Street Eats Festival this year’s festival offers food trucks, live music, art installations and a historical tasting tour.
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Vanessa Ægirsdóttir’s magical place
Meeting Bahm set her on a new personal journey, and professional path informed by his Tlingit heritage and traditional approach to trapping.
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Under the Yukon sky: The nature of joy
Natasha Henderson’s brooding skies, dense, lush forests and dark city streets in the appropriately-titled Under the Yukon Sky.
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Janet Patterson: Walking together
Janet Patterson, recipient of the Jenni House Residency is a multimedia artist whose work is focused on the history of the land we travel on.
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Timelapse scenery at the ODD Gallery
Dan Starling’s exhibit “Unsettled histories: the transformation of a print” imagines the landscape of a Rembrandt evolving over centuries
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Come out and see your friends
Drawn Together: embroidered portraits and Doortraits: Intimate Pandemic Images. Meaningful to a Yukon audience. Look for faces you recognize.
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Karen Thomas’s 2020 Landscape series
Karen Thomas takes a light-hearted approach to art-making. This makes for a joyful experience for folks who take in her exhibit 2020 Landscape Series: A Path Forward which is currently showing at Arts Underground in Whitehorse.
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Jesse Devost’s Superposition
In Superposition, Jesse Devost’s new exhibition at Arts Underground, Devost defines superposition as “the physical paradox of two distinct states, when added together equal a new valid state.
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Arts in the Park is back on the air
For the second year in a row, Arts in the Park will be presenting an adapted season to fit with pandemic protocols.
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A decade of Created at the Canyon
Yukon Conservation Society’s “Created at the Canyon,” a live multi-media art event celebrating the creative process of local artists.
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Artist Annie Johnsgaard showcases the power of transiency
Annie Johnsgaard’s lovely (inventive, often amusing) ever-changing chalk murals brighten the walls of Yukonstruct Cospace, where she works.
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The power of art
Victoria, Tlingit from the Gaanaxtei.di Clan and drum carrier for the Dakhká Khwáan, discusses what collecting art means to her.
Travels with a sketchbook
Virginia Wilson, whose exhibit Travels with a Sketchbook is currently showing at Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W), approaches landscapes with a background in geography.
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Life as a Yukon artist, past and present
The Friends of the Yukon Archives Society has organized a wonderful exhibit at Arts Underground on how visual arts have evolved in the Yukon over
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Fragments in the Dust
Whitehorse artist Scott Price is the ultimate scavenger. His favourite source for materials is the nearest dump. He’s been to dumps in Whitehorse, Dawson and,
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