That Textile Touch
On a windy, end-of-June day, Kate Williams sits at a small table under a spreading lilac tree in LePage Park. Nearby, Dennis Victor Allen is […]
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Flying Solo
Swirling suggestions of colour, jagged planes and vibrant backdrops warp around human forms and everyday sights in the latest art exhibit at Gallery 22. Titled
Telling Tales in Atlin
With six books and three CDs to her credit, Ivan E. Coyote may be Yukon’s most prolific storyteller since the triumvirate of Service, London and
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From the Arts: Stories Still Waiting to be Told
Ruth Qualliarialik Nuilliak’s “Tundra” is the first thing you see of the show Nunavut’s Culture on Cloth at the Yukon Arts Centre. It transfixed me.
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A Little Off the Top: Stereotypes and Beyond
On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper rose in the House of Commons to issue a formal apology for Canada’s century-long Indian residential school
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Lots to look at
Each of Meghan Hildebrand’s paintings sets out a rich site within which your imagination can roam. Let me invite you into “The Royal Game of
Beyond Therapy
Beyond Therapy Jenna Walchuk has a story to tell. Years ago, she was an addict. She’s been clean for many years, yet the need to
A Fashionable Farewell
Unfortunately, this fashion horse is leaving the stable. That’s right, I am moving on to different pastures (not necessarily greener). So for my final article
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Summer Scapes
Evie Allen’s current show at the Chocolate Claim, Summer Bluescapes, is an ideal companion to the robust anticipation that accompanies the onset of summer in
Bohemian Belles
The Bohemian look will always be a classic. It may seem effortless but it really is anything but. It’s a style that comes together by
Bright Rhythms of Light
Halin de Repentigny, mysterious Yukon painter, experienced trapper and musher, is well known for his vibrant Yukon scenes of fishing, dog sledding and historical townscapes.
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Footloose
Living in the North can threaten your style. Most of us dress weather-appropriate and forget about whether a blue North Face jacket will go well
Sharing the Secrets of a Beautiful Craft
If you think those home-tanned moccasins you’ve been eyeing are too expensive, taking one of Shelby Blackjack’s workshops might change your mind. For the past
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Hazel Venzon embraces the Filipino community
Hazel Venzon is holed up in Porter Creek when she Skypes me. She’s been in Whitehorse since December working on her play. “Vancouver has a
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Lines of Communication
“Drawing is similar to writing.”Those words are printed in bold black letters upon a stark white wall in the Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery. And
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The Real Cover Story
Gallery intern Jessica Vellenga stands in the youth grotto at the Yukon Arts Centre, flipping through a handmade accordion-style book.“She’s talking about Vancouver and the
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Copper Moon Gallery welcomes all artists
As soon as Nerissa Rosati leaves the room, Harreson Tanner leans over and says, “Talk about what an amazing person I get to work with.”
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Unleashing the Artist Within
BY GEORGE MARATOS When Torontonian Vanessa Martin came to the Yukon in early May of this year, she never imagined that four months later she
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Halin de Repentigny’s Yukon
Halin de Repentigny is a Yukoner’s Yukoner. He is a trapper, hunting guide and expert birch-bark canoe builder; he lives in the bush, runs sled
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Confessions Of Identity And Desire
In one of the three large rooms segregated within the Yukon Art Centre Public Art Gallery, a video installation plays over and over again. The
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Adventures in Images
“I think I’ve slept in my own bed for maybe two weeks, since May,” Stefan Wackerhagen says with a laugh. He lives his life through
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The River Walk: Where Left Brain Converges With the Right
The artist was thinking with the left side of her brain; the contractor was thinking with the right. Joyce Majiski, a multiple-media artist — “Multiple
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Heidi Hehn Uses the Big Brush
BY JANELLE HARDY Crisp, precise and focused. On viewing most of Yukon painter Heidi Hehn’s paintings, these words draw closest to finding an underlying mood
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Mary Bradshaw YAC’s New Director
Mary Bradshaw is the new director of the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery. This is a new position at the gallery that artists should
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From Abstract to Traditional: Local Artists Show Their Roots
Some people feel something is missing when they’re in complete solitude. But walking into the lunchtime silence of the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery
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Artist In Full Bloom
During the cold months, Lara Melnik was preparing reminders of warmer days. “It was a long, dark winter so I made flowers,” she says of
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Artist, Art Students and Canadians
An important painter/sketch artist of the Yukon, Yvette Bourque, has done a lot for the artistic community since she arrived. Artistic event organizations are often
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Subject Matter
Our first conversation, we were slouched on separate couches in a living room. The clock had struck way past midnight, but we stayed awake talking
Going Outside
A rainbow of paint drips cover the floor like confetti. Music blasts from a small radio in the corner while light pours in from a
Sublime Collaboration: Journey to a Glacier
BY TARA McCARTHY It all started with a journey. And it culminated into an exhibition of memories, textures and environment. In August 2007, Yukon artist
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Living the Dream
“I stayed up all night,” says carver, Duran Henry Jr., a 24-year-old Kwanlin Dun First Nation member. He was nervous about the Sundog Retreat Carving
An Intricate Blend
BY TARA McCARTHY According to her artist statement, what Shiela Alexandrovich sets out to do, rarely coincides with what actually happens. Thus her current exhibition
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Branching Out
The shop is lined with seed packets and items for the outdoors, with a medley of unique giftware tucked away in the corner. Large cotton
The Hougens present Ted Harrison
It is an impressive display of Ted Harrison’s Yukon. Wide swaths of bold colours of everyday life in a territory that is anything but “everyday”.
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The Painting that Spoke
DAWSON CITY A painting spoke to Jackie Olson and told her she was an artist. In the 1980s, Olson worked for the Indian Arts and
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Painting ‘The Entire City’
BY GEORGE MARATOS John Boivin‘s passion for his art is easily observed as he speaks about his latest works over lunch at a Whitehorse café. His
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A Place To Grow
Since moving to Whitehorse, Amber R. Walker’s creative energy has resurfaced. “I thought acting at first, because I kind of wanted to try acting, but
Spending More Time with Her Carcross Road
The Carcross Road inspires Moving on with Colour. Every time Daphne Mennell drives down the Carcross Road she makes “about a million stops.” Often these
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The Unnatural Wonders of the World
Perched at the window, Meghan Hildebrand grabs her cup of tea and gazes out at the city’s Main Street with a comfortable smile. Whitehorse is
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A Unique Collection of Memories
It all started with a care package from home. Heather Read felt she was growing tired of her graduate degree program on the East Coast
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French Toast: Art for the Women of the World
BY VIRGINIE HAMEL March has been known all over the world as Women’s Month, the month for raising awareness and support for women’s issues. Les
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Articulating Identity
Texts are strewn about and art is placed along the walls amidst a puzzle of second-hand furniture. Each item, whether handcrafted or found, has its
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Capturing the Memory of Innocence
In the quiet foyer of the Yukon Arts Centre, Catherine Deer says she’s not the best at interviews. But she hits a confident stride fast
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Feast at the Yukon Arts Centre
Michelle Moreau and her potter partner Patrick Royle want to assure purchasers of local pottery that no glaze used on Royle’s or any other local
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Old Colours Shepherded Into A New World
Born in a time of transition, Jack Fred Jackson was strongly influenced by time spent with his grandfather, both on the land and in the home.
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Artrepreneur: Solo Shows in a Cooperative Environment
Way in the farthest back room at the Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery, a series of shows has been planned to span the next two
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