From meadows to monsters
For Yukoners wondering if we’ll ever emerge from the seemingly endless winter, Yukon Artists @ Work (YAAW) is offering…
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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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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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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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Northern Pictures: Celebrating Yukon Cinema
Reel Art! This new exhibition at YAAW honors the Yukon Theatre’s 70th anniversary and the Yukon Film Society’s 40th.
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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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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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Puppet Show In The Window
Small audiences will delight in “Found in a Blizzard,” a short, family-friendly holiday puppet show performed in the window…
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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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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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The Christmas elves of YA@W
Last-minute shoppers are sure to find something for a friend or family member at Yukon Artists @ Work. There are also lots of small treasures for topping up stocking, or add some sparkle to what has been a very strange and difficult year.
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The Artist in the Window series concludes and continues
Yukon Artists @ Work(YA@W) continues to host the Artists in the Window series until the first week of September for paid demonstrations and artist talks. This way
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The Artist in the Window: Still more to come!
Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W) continues to host the Artists in the Window series through to the first week of September.
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How much is that little artist in the window?
The official summer version of the Artist in the Window is now in full swing. You can interact with demonstrating artists behind the window at Yukon Artists at Work (YA@W) Wednesday to Friday, 11-2, and see their work in the window almost anytime.
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How much is that artist in the window?
The Yukon Artists @ Work Society (YA@W) are among those doing their best to adapt. They have come up with an innovative way to be present to their public within these new and shifting constraints.
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Wild in the city
Linda Leon’s newest exhibition, Wild in the City, is an exploration of the relationship between animals and urban centres.
Jagged little rocks
“Pieces of the Jagged Rocks” by artist Dee Bailey opens Sept. 6 with a reception from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Yukon Artists at
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Evoking kintsugi
Whitehorse artist Leslie Leong applied for a residency at the Ted Harrison Artists Retreat to work towards a large show at the Yukon Arts Centre
Scavenging for Raven
Upper Tanana artist Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé has teamed up with Whitehorse-based artist Nicole Bauberger to create a scavenger hunt of installations and events this fall.
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On being scared (and doing it anyway)
by Misha Donohoe Fearless in Nature opens at Yukon Artists at Work Gallery on April 6 with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Georgia
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Poetry and Visual Art Create a Dialogue
Just like poetry inspires music, it also can inspire visual art. That is what artist Heidi Hehn says about the Circumpolar Duet project, which is
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Telling Stories
Sandra Grace Storey’s Words Like Birds exhibit digs deep into all that we struggle to express. It finds a great tenderness there. Storey has created
An Artist of All Trades
She sculpts, paints, sketches and makes jewelry. This talented Yukoner goes by the name of Heidi Hehn. Some of you may recognize the name from her various
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The Artists Are Working, But Not How You Think
The place is busy and noisy. Paul and Jeannine Baker look more like construction workers than artists. Jeannine is sweeping drywall debris in the kitchen/workshop
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Catching up with Harreson Tanner
Last October, What’s Up Yukon featured a story on Yukon sculptor Harreson Tanner. It spotlighted Tanner’s move to Ontario, only to find he and his
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Smoke and Zola and emerging artists
Arts shows, installations and openings around Whitehorse. Including Emma Barr, Joyce Majiski, Jeanine & Paul Baker and more
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Yukon Artists: At Work for 10 Years
There will be music on the walls and in the air when the Yukon Artists @ Work (YAAW) Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary on November
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Where Do You Go After The Yukon? A pillar of Yukon’s art community finds green grass in the Arctic
Twelve months ago, Harreson Tanner thought he was leaving the Yukon for good. Like many seniors, Tanner wanted to be closer to his children and
Fundraising Fun avec Vin
About a year ago, I worked with Yukon Artists @ Work on a project called “Canvas Confidential,” a fundraiser to help Yukon artists if illness
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Yukon Artists @ Work Painter Neil Graham Unveils a Project Six Years in the Making
Tarot cards are tools for divination and reflection; giving the person receiving the reading insight into past, present and future. The exact origin of the
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A ‘different’ type of artist
Marilyn Wolovick brings two coffees to her husband’s studio. The cups are comfortable to hold, lovely to look at and each slightly different. Her husband,
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Portraits of Clay
Harreson Tanner and his wife drove up to the Yukon from Vancouver in the summer of 2002. It rained all they way up, but once
Artrepreneur: All Art and No Sandwich
It’s 8:30 p.m. I’m driving Scott Marsden, curator of The Reach Gallery, in Abbotsford, and erstwhile curator at the Yukon Arts Centre, back to his
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Artrepreneur: A Fascination with Flax
As I write this, 78-year-old Helmut Becker toils tirelessly, beating his hand-grown flax and hemp fibres for Yukon artists. He’s doing it in Ontario, so
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Artrepreneur: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
On the gorgeous, summery evening of May 1, Ragazze, a solo show of acrylic paintings by Deanna Slonski, opened in the solo-show room at the
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Artrepreneur: A Yukon Perspective in Abbotsford
What’s Going on Up There? Yukon artists exhibition in Abbotsford. Harreson Tanner, Daphne Mennell, Jeanine Baker, Bob Atkinson, Lynne Sofiak.
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Amber Church, Her Yukon Adventure
“She sat in silence and was overwhelmed by serenity.” “She embraced change.” “She faced the challenge.” Each of Whitehorse artist Amber Church’s newest paintings in
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Drums Supporting the Solo Voice
When you step into the Solo Show Room at the Copper Moon Gallery, you’re greeted with a sense of rhythm. A row of women raise
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Artrepreneur: Tall, Thin and Prolific
The back room at Yukon Artists @ Work gave each artist a space two- feet wide by five-feet across. The room is almost stuffed.
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The Peace of Collecting
Stepping into the Solo Show Room at the Yukon Artists @ Work Co-operative, this month, feels wide open and peaceful. To create Stones Bones Berries:
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Artrepreneur: Minus 40/North of 60
The members of the Yukon Artists @ Work Co-operative have put together a pre-Christmas show that gives viewers a multifaceted portrait of winter life in
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From the Arts: A Large Show of Small Works
Rosemary Piper’s work is familiar to Yukon audiences. She’s a faithful exhibitor at the Yukon Artists @ Work Cooperative Gallery while the North End Gallery
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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
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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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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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
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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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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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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100 Steps Further In
Faro-based artist Jackie Irvine set herself a challenge. What if she painted one painting a day for 100 days? Starting October 1, 2011 she did
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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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Fireweed Forever
The Prince of Wales had his supper served on it. It’s on dining tables and in display cabinets around the world. It’s uniquely Yukon, but
A Visual Voice
Wendy Whitemore has lived alone on the land in Ontario for 10 years before embarking on about 10 years of solo travel. During those travels
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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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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