For our children tomorrow
Closeup of Velma Olson’s beadwork on Sidney Anderson’s 2015 graduation dress To my mind, Honouring...
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Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery
Finding beauty in all the right places: Artist teaches how to appreciate art
Emma Barr is helping people find more beauty in their lives.As a professional artist of mixed media, that has always been her goal. But there is so much more art out there and much of it go unappreciated because many people just...
Read MoreArtrepreneur: Photographer Helps Protect Canada’s Artists
BY NICOLE BAUBERGERIt’s a common Yukon experience. You’re at the board meeting, looking around the table. There’s a vacancy in a leadership position. “I don’t know enough,” you think. But as...
Read MoreArtrepreneur: Cutouts and Curious George
Whimsy, angst and wit play in Joseph Tisiga’s drawings for the show Indigenous Incisions — or an Indigenous Ambivalence of the Abandoned Modern Man — opening Sept. 4 in the Yukon Arts Centre Community...
Read MoreArtrepreneur: Cowboys and Immigrants
BY NICOLE BAUBERGER Three shows will open at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. They range from video installation to painting process to an installation of cowboy kitsch.Ho Tam’s Confessions of a...
Read MoreThe art of guilt
Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons on June 11, 2008 and apologized. His address was in regards to Indian Residential Schools in Canada.”Truly, with the Stephen Harper apology, he was just the...
Read MoreSeeing what you don’t see
What is behind this curious display?What thoughts or intentions are these objects meant to communicate?What part of the larger whole do they play?Jessica Vellenga is interning as a community curator and programming at the Yukon...
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Dolores Anderson
Dolores Anderson (nee Scheffen) is among the Yukon artists involved with Sewing Our Traditions:...
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