Department of Tourism and Culture

Yukon Student Visual Art Program

The Yukon Student Visual Art Program is open to all students under 18 years of age attending a public school in the Yukon and Stikine School District.

Art is usually submitted by schools. Once all art is received, a jury selects approximately 50 works of art which are exhibited in the Department of Education building in Whitehorse through the summer. Work not selected for this show may tour Yukon schools in the fall. A second round of jurying selects work for the Permanent Collection of Student Art.

The Permanent Collection of Student Art is a body of artwork that belongs to the Department of Education - the collection is as diverse and creative as the children who produced it. Currently, the Visual Arts Assistant from the Arts Section facilitates the conservation and administration of the Collection.

The Student Art Collection hangs in the hallways and some offices of the Department of Education in Whitehorse and Dawson City. It is professionally framed, with accompanying identification plaques.

Approximately ten new works of children’s art are acquired for the Collection each year through the Yukon Student Visual Art Program.

Next entry deadline: April 11, 2008