Applications for the 2025 Yukon Prize close at 5 pm on Friday November 15!
Yukon artists – you have just over 2 weeks to apply for the 2025 Yukon Prize! The application form is a simple online form. All the information you need to apply is available on the Yukon Prize website. Yukon artists can submit any work that they have created in the past ten years, in any medium.
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National Gallery of Canada meets in Whitehorse
The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) held its September board meeting and its Annual Public meeting in Whitehorse – the first time north of 60!
National Gallery staff and board members from across Canada had the opportunity to see some great Yukon art, meet members of the local arts community, and experience some of the Yukon’s spectacular scenery. The NGC’s presence in Whitehorse and in other parts of Canada will help it to expand its networks and achieve its goal of becoming a truly national gallery. The Yukon arts community and the NGC were happy to have the opportunity to build greater connections.
Yukon Permanent Collection – New Acquisitions
Kaylyn Baker‘s beaded outfit “Salmon Stripper” and Leslie Leong’s artwork “Slot Canyon e-scape” made from old computer parts were acquired by the Yukon Permanent Art Collection and are on display at the Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery until November 15th along with other new acquisitions.
Kaylyn was the recipient of the 2023 Yukon Prize. Leslie was a founding member of the Yukon Prize committee.
Salmon Stripper by Kaylyn Baker, photo by Mark Kelly
Raven Shares the Light – artists’ depictions
2021 Finalist Krystle Silverfox‘s new installation, Raven Shares the Light, pays homage to the story of Raven and the Sun – an important ancestral Yukon First Nations Story. This artwork was made during a residency with STEPS who partnered with the ODD Gallery in Dawson. Krystle got this residency by applying when she saw it on Akimbo, an arts newsletter. Find out more about this interesting 5 part sculpture.
Another Raven themed installation of Krystle’s, Raven lite, will be opening shortly in New York City as part of the show How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
Want to hear more about this story? Watch artist Megan (Guna) Jensen tell the story of how Raven brings light to the world in this stunning one minute film which we showed as part of the 2021 Yukon Prize Gala.
Yukon Prize Festival Weekend: Oct. 3-5, 2025
Plans are underway for the 2025 Yukon Prize Festival 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
Sept– Nov 2025 – Yukon Prize Finalists’ Exhibition
Let us know if you are interested in travelling to Whitehorse for this!
Email us at info@yukonprize.ca
Alumni News
2023 Longlisted artist and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen Jackie Olson will be giving a talk at 6 pm ET on Oct 30 – part of the Paydirt Seminars organized by Struts Gallery
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86928140958?pwd=IumkHSDTKn3moFTxdVvfwtZoqIRTgd.1
In her artistic practice Jackie works through processes of reclamation, witnessing and accompanying the regrowth of nature in the wake of miners’ destruction of the surface of the land. She works with willow, which is what first grows back over the machinery and rubble. Watching the way willow grows and working with willow to make her art is a way to learn from nature, and to understand how nature responds and adapts to the invasions and destructions caused by mining.
2023 Yukon Prize finalist and Viewers’ Choice winner Cole Pauls has a new book!
Lłēge zedle s̱on nes̱it’īn (Tahltan for we see stars only at night) is a surrealistic landscape of Tahltan shapes, culture and motifs.
Find out more about his new graphic novel in this CBC article
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.