We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Yukon Prize Jurors!
Three outstanding Canadian arts professionals have been named as the jury who will select the long-listed artists, the finalists and the recipient of the 2025 Yukon Prize for Visual Arts. They are: • Jean-François Bélisle, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada • Dr. Heather Igloliorte (Inuk-Newfoundlander, Nunatsiavut), Canada Excellence Research Chair in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria • Sarah Moore Fillmore, CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Thank you so much to our wonderful jurors!
Picture (L-R): Jean-François Bélisle, Dr. Heather Igloliorte & Sarah Moore Fillmore
Applications are now open for the 2025 Yukon Prize!
The application form is a simple online form. All the information artists need to apply is available on the application page of the website. The application deadline is 5 pm on November 15, 2024. Yukon artists can submit any work that they have created in the past ten years, in any medium.
Free photography for applicants’ artwork will be available in Whitehorse and Dawson. In Whitehorse – Oct 25-26 at Arts Underground, In Dawson Oct 29-30.
Follow Yukon Prize on Instagram for details.
In the Media
“Yukon Prize launches 2025 celebration of the arts” – Yukon Star
“Applications open for the 2025 Yukon Prize” (radio interview) – CBC
Image c/o Yukon Star
Yukon Prize Festival Weekend 2025
Although it is more than a year away, we are already planning the 2025 Yukon Prize Festival Weekend.
Thank you to everyone who responded to our poll on studio visits. There was overwhelming support from artists and art lovers for studio visits, which will now form part of the weekend.
Save the date!
Friday, October 3, 2025 – Yukon Prize Air North Art Crawl
Saturday, October 4, 2025 – Free tours of the exhibition by the artists, panels and talks
Saturday, October 4, 2025 – Yukon Prize Celebration Evening
Sunday, October 5, 2025 – Studio tours
September – November 2025 – Yukon Prize Finalists’ Exhibition at the Yukon Arts Centre
Alumni News
2021 Yukon Prize finalist Ken Anderson has been busy with public art installations in Whitehorse
Ken designed and painted the mural (with assistance from Bre-Anna Schilling and the Northern Cultural Expressions Society) entitled “Part of the Water”, on the wharf overlooking the Yukon River.
The mural is about the first peoples of the Yukon and the river: wolf and raven in the centre, the salmon representing a traditional food source, and the bear and eagle on the outer part representing the other animals that frequent the river.
The seal bowl represents the oral history and culture of the first peoples. The flora on the part farthest from the river represents the plants and vegetation found along the river, as well as the beadwork of the mothers and grandmothers.
Ken Anderson’s new firepit in front of the Yukon Arts Centre will be officially unveiled on September 12, 5 – 7 pm, along with the opening of two new exhibitions at the gallery – new acquisitions by the Yukon Permanent Collection (including artworks by many Yukon Prize alumni) and works by the Northern Cultural Expressions Society.
Put Yourself in the Picture
To make a charitable donation online to support Yukon art and artists through the Yukon Prize, please donate through our partner, the Yukon Arts Foundation, via Canada Helps.
Where you see the heading: “Apply your donation to a specific fund set up by this charity” select “Yukon Prize for Visual Arts” from the drop down menu.
You will receive a charitable donation receipt immediately by email from Canada Helps, identifying your support for the Yukon Prize for Visual Arts.