Landscapes of Imagination
In a duo-artist show at Copper Moon Gallery, Yukon artists Kathy Piwowar and Gabriele Watts blend the definition of landscape painting. With an abstract approach, […]
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Framing History with Coloured Glass
Having her own artwork on display at last year’s Cranberry Fair taught Brenda Stehelin an important lesson. “It’s nerve-wracking,” says the long-time owner of Yukon
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No Lights Allowed or Needed at the 24-Hours of Light Bike Relay
Intrepid mountain bikers, novice and experienced alike, are donning their helmets and dousing the lights in preparation for the tenth annual mountain bike festival, 24
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From the Arts: Nourishing Colour and Wit
The Colour Show, 5 artists working in 5 different mediums. Lynne Sofiak, Jeanine Baker, Daphne Mennell, Lise Merchant, and Mary Beattie
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WhiskeyDicks’ Last Hurrah?
Whitehorse WhiskeyDicks are preparing to touch down in Whitehorse for a series of shows, perhaps even tinged with a melancholy air, as singer/guitar player and
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Ken Anderson’s Mixed-Media Mastery
Established traditions meld with new medias to create a generational twist on heritage art with Ken Anderson‘s newest show. “They didn’t have lasers to etch
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YA@W’s New Home
Saws spin, putting walls in at 200-120 Industrial Road, the new home of the Yukon Artists@Work (YA@W) Cooperative. The new windows frame scenes of the Takhini
Tourists ‘Knit’ Together
Long-time friends and skilled knitting aficionados, Spence Hill of Tom’s Touring Service and Marney Mitchell of Knit Now & Folknits, joined together to create a
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Yukon Landscape, Past and Present
In Northwest Revisited, John Boivin finds a new lyricism in his brushwork. He also makes a personal and shared connection with a little known facet
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MAD Strips Jesus Christ Superstar Down to the Bones
The hallways and rooms of MAD are cluttered with creative projects, students, fabric, and ideas. The name “Jesus Christ” echoes in each classroom as students
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Meditations on Happiness
How do you define happiness? Is it something to be measured, examined and compared? Is happiness an index to which our lives should be measured?
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Terra Firma’s Artist Show Their Passion Projects at Gallery 22
The Terra Firma Art Company on Third Avenue in Whitehorse bills itself as your “promotional product company”.They put images, logos and text onto products, mainly
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Outside the Frame, Outside the Lines
Karen Rhebergen has sprung her batik paintings from their frames. They hang at angles from the walls at Arts Underground, so light shines though them.
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Simple, Powerful Costume Designs Help Superstar Shine
What makes a big production, planned a year in advance, run smoothly? A dedicated team of students, a pair of teachers/directors who really click with
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Frostbite Festival Features
Strong singer-songwriters and high-energy techno-twist bands support this year’s Frostbite Festival, a celebration of diverse music. Artistic director Eric Epstein says this year’s festival is
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“Agnostic Electric Gospel”
Ushering in haunting and beautiful songs, Vanessa Boyd remembers a compliment that struck to the core of her art: “A man in Nepal came up
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Switchback Collective: All in the
Afamily that creates together, displays together. Artists Tytus Hardy, Janelle Hardy and mother Louise Hardy, together with friend Rosemary Scanlon, mount Switchback Collective — an
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The soul of the city
Michelangelo said of the city, “I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.” I was listening to CBC Radio’s Tapestry a
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“Solid Fuel” Blasts Out of the School of Rock
Who says kids can’t rock? Solid Fuel, band brainchild of music teacher Graeme Peters, features astounding performances from kids aged 10 to 15. Peters originally
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A Trip into Canadian Contemporary Art Scene
Canadian contemporary artists found a wider audience in Massachusetts last spring. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) presents more than 60 Canadian artists,
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Satellites and Other Evolutions
Ididn’t mean to trust Google so much. I knew in some corner of my mind that Google Earth constructs images from satellite data, but it’s
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Exposure Demystified
Unlike the human eye, mind, and heart, the sensor in your digital camera has no emotions or imagination affecting it. All it can do is
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Passing the Plasma Torch
“You gotta check this out,” says Philippe LeBlond, pointing to a steel barrel on wheels attached to his bike at the back of the garage.
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Draw Yourself In
Most people talk about enjoying drawing when they were kids, says David Curtis as he explains his International Self-Portrait Gallery. That’s a big part of
Underground Vibe Upstairs
A hidden gem is tucked away in the lot behind the Hougen’s centre, above Triple J’s Music Café. Accessible by a narrow, graffiti-covered staircase –
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Storytelling with Photographs
The photojournalist tells a vivid story with each shot. With some knowledge and forethought, you too can weave a tale with your photography. There must
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Storytelling with Photographs
The photojournalist tells a vivid story with each shot. With some knowledge and forethought, you too can weave a tale with your photography. There must
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100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Years
“I find women in the Yukon, and Dawson in particular, an incredibly strong group,” says Penny Soderlund, a member of the Public Service Alliance of
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7 Reasons to Buy Art in the Yukon
This article is written for visitors to the Yukon. Most Yukoners already know this stuff. But I hope it will prove entertaining or informative for
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Tack-sharp Images
The shots you took of that once-in-a-lifetime event have all turned out soft, out of focus or blurry. There are numerous factors that could be
Sensors and Megapixels
Pixels per inch (PPI), dots per inch (DPI), megapixels, sensors, resolution … it’s enough to confuse anybody. One of the selling features for a new
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Personal Migrations
In the Yukon Arts Centre’s Public Gallery, the Open Season exhibition presents work by four artists with relationships between Yukon and Ontario: two from Ontario
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Personal and Unpredictable
Copper Moon Gallery’s latest show Wood Grain and Metal Form is a refreshing and personal look at the recent work of two new Yukon artists.
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Love It or Leave It
Sometimes late at night I make believe I am sleeping next to someone so I don’t feel so alone. A meandering row of worn, travel-marked
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Capsule of Berlin
A room-sized capsule of contemporary art from Berlin is about to open at the ODD Gallery, where the walls will be hung with close to
What’s Your Composition?
Out you go, camera in hand, all set to locate and shoot the perfect image. Your “digital capture device” is complicated and has a mind
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Have Brush, Will Travel
Nicole Bauberger knows her way around a colour wheel, and these days she’s also navigating her way around a fair chunk of Canada’s highway system.
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At Home in the Gallery
Jay Hambleton seems at home in the exhibition room of the Copper Moon Gallery, waiting for the crowds to arrive for his very first show.
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One Man’s Luchesse
Fashion is definitely not only for the ladies. Yet the unfortunate thing is that most men think it is. Taking care of your appearance or
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Resolution and Digital Photography
Recently, a publication was offering to use some of my photos. In their instructions they asked me to make sure the resolution is at least
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Embrace of the Indian Brand
Horror and wonder have a close kinship, and the relational blood between them is the potential for transformation. Joseph Tisiga grew up bouncing between a
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Young Talent Moves Uphill
Watercolour, acrylic, pastels, collage, papier maché, polymer clay, dioramas, aluminum engravings and even multi-media with recycling, The students at École Emilie Tremblay (EET) have done
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Mail Art Delivers
Every week in 2011, Yukon artist Joyce Majiski constructed, wrote, and mailed a postcard to California artist Zea Morvitz—and Morvitz reciprocated in kind. It was
Shooting Snow
The days are getting longer and the sun brighter, but you still have time to get out there and photograph the frigid Yukon wonders. Winter
Affected by Festivals
Coachella, Shambhala, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo! What language am I speaking? I’m speaking music festivals, maaan. We’ve all been to one, and we’ve all earned that piece
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Luxuriate in the Moss
Most Yukoners love the microcosm of moss and little alpine plants that contrasts with our grand vistas. The snow has not yet melted from that
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Guild goes ‘Into the Woods’ and gets its wish: Magic
This is a solid performance by a great cast. In Into the Woods nearly everything is sung. They pull it off with gusto!
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Realistic landscape and whimsical collage
There’s a delightful new show at Gallery 22 of landscape, portrait and abstract artworks by four women with four different styles. While the title of
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Artrepreneur: Fun and Safety Nets
Being an artist resembles performing a high-wire act in a circus. It requires balance, skill, hope, risk and commitment, as well as lots and lots
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Outdoor Lighting Tips
Photography is the art of painting with light. If you choose to capture outdoor photographs, you will not have the control of lighting that is
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Finding Wonder in Wood
The subtle aromas of cedar, basswood and paint scent the air in the Arts Underground gallery as you view the representations of frog, raven, eagle,
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Inspiration Everywhere
You don’t need to be creative to be fashionable. You just need to get inspired. The inspiration can come from anywhere, anyone, or anything. For
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Depth-of-Field: Your Creative Tool
The creative use of Depth-of-Field (DOF) has been a journey of discovery, wonder and artistic joy for me my entire photographic career. Even now, after
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Creative Sharing
The leafy green hue of a few household plants seems out of place alongside a multi-coloured, paint-mottled apron and gas mask inside Emma Barr’s bright
A Little Off the Top: I Am Curious (Orange)
Heidi Hehn didn’t set out to do a Halloween-themed show. It just kind of turned out that way. “I like to work sometimes in just one
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Hot New Art Band
There’s a new jazz trio out at Crag Lake. But instead of sound waves, they’re jammin’ in glass and steel. Rusty Redbrun (Paul Baker), Burny
Facing the Elements
Quickly scanning Manu Keggenhoff’s solo show, Facing the Elements, at the Copper Moon Gallery, I am struck by the eerie realism of the paintings on
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The people’s horse
There’s a bit of this and a bit of that. There’s a pair of 1930s-era RCMP spurs, passed down through two generations of a Mountie
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Bringing the Wilderness Home
Caribou are the marrow of life in northern Yukon. In the caribou migration we found searing lessons about birth and death, survival, and the fragility
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The Karaoke Karate Kid
Curtis Grahauer does not take himself too seriously. An artist in residence this month at the Macaulay House in Dawson City, Grahauer blurs the lines
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A Shape-Shifting Artist
Leslie Leong moves like a hummingbird around Gallery 22. It is the opening night of her exhibit, SHIFT, and she is adjusting art, giving directions,
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Capturing Character in Clay
It is a well-known piece of Yukon history: when gold fever rolled through the Klondike area in the 1890s, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in leader Chief Isaac made
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Disembarking at Yukon College
Halin de Repentigny’s canoe has a new home. On November 16 at 10 a.m., the 30-foot long by six-foot wide canoe was set to be
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All That Glitters
Flecks of gold sparkle in a miniature painting; jewelry made with a gem named ‘fire citrine’ creates a pool of golden light; the graceful swoops
Artrepreneur: Each word sings
What’s in a word? In the hands of Peter Jickling and his friends, each word has its own voice. You can listen to those voices
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Artrepreneur: Birds in Wrenches, Birds in Landscape
Paul Baker and Rosemary Piper share the solo show room at the Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W) co-operative gallery this month. Piper’s framed watercolours line
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Walk With Her
Daphne Mennell wants people to share her enjoyment of footpaths. To encourage them, the Carcross Road artist has assembled an exhibit of 12 new paintings
From Farm to Wild Spaces
Simon Gilpin is a talented and dedicated artist, new to the Yukon, who is haunted by memories of an idyllic landscape of his childhood, a
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Maps Exploring Paint
Jesse Devost’s current show at Arts Underground, the grass is greener, maps out new places with paint. As a whole, the exhibition encourages us to
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Looping Time
The overhead lights are dim in the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery. As you step inside, a flickering tells you you’re entering the realm of video.
Yukon Artists Find a Common Thread in Multitudes
I was keen to see Multitudes, a show at Arts Underground by artists from the Studio Gallery Association, because it’s a theme I’ve seen in
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Bridge to a Mystical Land
There is a world when people close their eyes and open their hearts, to see – Raistlen Jones, artist’s statement. That land is Tir’Nan’Og. Whitehorse
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Artrepreneur: Yukon Summer Art Trade
So far, the Yukon’s art market seems somewhat insulated from the economic uncertainties that are undermining art sales outside the territory. I asked four arts-related
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Black and White Photography, Take Two
Explore the art of Black and White Photography and learn techniques to enhance shapes, textures, and tones in your images.
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Women in Pigment and Time
Shelley Hakonson, like many Yukon visual artists, connects with audiences outside the territory by showing work across the continent. Last year the Dawson City mixed
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Looking In 3 Directions
Walking into Arts Underground these days, an impression of bright colours swirls around you. White, tan and black play their parts, but many solid areas
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Worst and Best Dressed, Yukon Style
Abest- and worst-dressed article from the Yukon is all readers ever wanted anyway, right? Maybe I’m looking to make the What’s Up magazine a little
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Dreamers Awake
Delve into the Sleep of Reason at Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery and discover the conversation it sparks about art and reason.
Art Is in the House
In an effort to improve the Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W) community gallery, creative hands from across the territory have been invited by the co-op
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Art Galore at YAC
Celebrate creativity at the Yukon Arts Center shows this March 2012, featuring stunning exhibits and student art displays.
Artrepreneur: Pants on Fire: Sam McGee and the Illusive North North
North has never been true, exactly. We know that. It’s a relative kind of thing. Even if you look at a compass, you have to
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Fairy Tales Retold
Amber Church sits on a bar stool in Rah Rah Gallery, a new art space, café, and baron Sixth Avenue in Whitehorse, and gazes upon
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Invitation to Inner Journeys
The two solo shows by Louise and Janelle Hardy on display at the Yukon Arts Centre this fall invite viewers into the artists’ personal, emotional
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Mechanical Improvisation
People like to ask: “What is Yukon art?” Such a small population generates little by way of trends or movements. Most artists are, to one
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From Trapline to High Tech
Sitting in Starbucks with Mark Preston, it’s hard to shake the feeling of being in the artist’s own studio. Not only do the walls of
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Art Talk Radio
Over the course of the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival, August 18 and 19, CFYT 106.9 in Dawson City broadcast its first remote live radio programming.
Bears and Snotsicles at Gallery 22
The strength of Beyond the Outhouse, a show of acrylic paintings by Kelsey Elaisson at Gallery 22, lies in its irreverent but unabashed embrace of
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Gallery Hopping as a Discovery Event
A combination of literary, historic, sports, and arts related activities have created a five-day visitor attraction filled with annual events.
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From the Arts: A Journal in Layers
As a member of the Yukon Artists @ Work cooperative, I was curious to see a solo show by Dawson City artist Mary Dolman. Viewing
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A Little Off the Top: Saluting an Icon
Anyone who comes to Yukon quickly becomes aware of several things: the vast landscape, the clean air, the soft colours, the friendliness, the compulsion of
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Sharing a Virtual Studio
Weathered boards from old cabins, archival photos from the Gold Rush era, and 21st century communications technology. These are the ingredients behind the exhibition Old
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Writing to be wild
“developing the hypothesis that we are all artists with a deep love of nature” the project results in recorded song and a lot to think about.
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Sketching Life Stories
Each piece on the wall is someone’s story. It could be that of the artist, the model, or someone else entirely, but each detailed image
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Personal vs. Actual
Sometimes there are moments in life where our experience of scenes and events, or our memory of them, doesn’t match up with their physical form.
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The Art of Reclamation
Amber Walker’s fourth solo exhibition bears the title Reclamation—a word that has several meanings for the 27-year-old Whitehorse artist. In part, Walker says, it is
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The Largesse of Yukon Art
Harreson Tanner and Serena Kovalosky have just returned from a two-week scouting mission around the territory, but there is no sign of road-weary haggardness. Instead,
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Carving Whilst Drinking
There’s an ongoing story surrounding Scott Rogers’ Meanders Into Nonesuch Place. At the center of this story is Jan Welzl, an Arctic explorer, locksmith and
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Breaking the Stitchin’ Trail
Sarah McHugh has sold many mittens over the past winter. The Dawson City artist’s hand-stitched hide and fur garments have been shipped to five different
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Bombs Away!
The bombers are coming! The bombers are coming! On August 11, the Yarn Bomb Yukon Collective plans to drop a cosy acrylic jacket onto what’s
From the Arts: Squatter’s Sketchbook
As you enter the exhibit They call us Squatters at the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery,four large pieces on the back wall catch your eye with
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