Happy Summer
We were delighted to see the artwork of 2023 Yukon Prize Recipient Kaylyn Baker during a recent visit to the National Gallery of Canada. Kaylyn’s beaded purse is featured in a stunning beadwork show, Radical Stitch, which has been touring the country and will be on display in Ottawa until September 30. An enlarged photo of her beaded purse is showcased on the cover of the exhibit’s French catalogue, as well as on a large sign at the entrance of the show.Pictured: Paul Genest, Kathryn Lyons, Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai and Carly in front of Kaylyn’s supersized beadwork!
Yukon Prize 2025 Updates
Thank you to everyone who responded to our Social Media poll about a new name for the Gala. The 2025 event, to be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, in Whitehorse, will now be called the Yukon Prize Celebration Evening. This name was favoured by a 2-to-1 margin over other options in the poll. The Celebration Evening is part of a weekend of arts-related events during the Yukon Prize Festival Weekend, from October 3 to 5, 2025. Mark your calendars with these key dates!
Applications for the 2025 Yukon Prize will open on August 15, 2024, and close on November 15, 2024. Artists can submit images of four to eight artworks created in the last ten years (a change from the previous five-year limit).
Yukon Arts Centre News
Our partners at the Yukon Arts Centre have been busy! Their new and improved website features highlights of the 2023 Yukon Prize Exhibition! Check it out!
The Yukon Arts Centre, along with the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, is excited to bring an exhibition of regalia created by many Indigenous artists for Yukon Indigenous high school graduates to London, England. Honouring Our Future: Yukon First Nations Graduation Regalia, curated by Lisa Dewhurst, showcases regalia from across the Yukon at Canada House in London from June 13 to October 6, 2024.
Regalia worn by Brittney Telep and Sarrah Telep, Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, at the front of the exhibit. Image c/o YAC
Alumni News
2021 Yukon Prize finalist Amy Ball has opened an art gallery in Dawson City. P.B.G. is a new gallery in the storefront of Peabody’s Photo Parlour, dedicated to sharing and promoting the diverse and vibrant artist community in Dawson. Amy’s goal is to create a hub for Yukoners and visitors to view and purchase fine art and craft works. The gallery continues to grow as new artists are being added to the roster.
Visit P.B.G. at 907 2nd Avenue in Dawson City! Or check out the P.B.G. website!
Amy Ball’s P.B.G. Gallery is pictured here in Dawson City, YT.
The latest acquisitions by the Yukon Permanent Collection include the 2023 Yukon Prize Recipient Kaylyn Baker’s outfit, Salmon Stripper.
The addition of Kaylyn’s work expands the number of artists recognized by the Yukon Prize whose works have also been chosen for the Permanent Collection over the years. These artists include Ken Anderson, Justin Apperly, Sho Sho Esquiro, Jeffrey Langille, Meshell Melvin, Rebekah Miller, Jackie Olson, Cole Pauls, Rosemary Scanlon, Krystle Silverfox, Joseph Tisiga, Veronica Verkley, and Alainnah Whachell.
Image c/o Kaylyn’s Instagram
2023 finalist Rebecca Miller is participating in the Toronto Outdoor Public Art Show as an online artist.
Grouse Four. Image c/o Rebecca Miller
2021 Yukon Prize juror Gaëtane Verna curated Canada’s Pavillion at the Venice Biennale, featuring artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Canada’s widely praised pavilion was featured in an article in Vogue Magazine
2023 finalist Cole Pauls has been busy on the comic arts circuit, including speaking and exhibiting at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in May.
This event attracts over 25,000 comic enthusiasts! You can see only a portion of the turnout – pictured to the left!
Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2024
2021 Finalist Krystle Silverfox co-led a workshop at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning that invited community members to learn about wildfires and contribute to a large-scale collaborative art piece on a 10-by-5-foot canvas. The workshop was part of a series of events encouraging Yukon and Northwest Territories residents to share art and poetry after a summer of evacuations.
“There’s this tendency to want to find solutions right away rather than sitting with and feeling our way through what’s happening,” Silverfox said. “I think art can create a space for us to really listen to each other and hear how everybody’s being affected differently.”
(Quote from Globe and Mail article, June 22, 2024)
2023 Longlisted Artist Jackie Olson has an exciting new show at the ODD Gallery in Dawson, which will be shown June 21 – July 28.
The Land speaks to me offers a unique look at Jackie Olson’s collected works-in-progress. Olson creates pieces that are meant to go back to the land, and many of her artworks have already been curated back into nature
Image c/o The ODD Gallery
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.