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In 2022 Jackie was awarded the Yukon Hall of Innovator’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her transformative reimagining of age-old Yukon practices as an inspired new way of creating art.
Jackie Olson, First Nations Culture Instructor. jacqueline.olson@yukonu.ca. Jackie Olson, with a rich heritage of Gwich'in and Danish roots, hails from Dawson City, YT, where she spent the majority of her life.
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Jeremy Linville leads multiple lives: throughout the year, he is a rapper, runs the Youth of Today Societymusic studio in downtown Whitehorse, and is a single dad to his son. Jeremy is from Tahltan First Nation. If there's one thing he wants to pass along to the next generation, especially Indigenous youth who want to follow in his footsteps, it's ...
For all of her 26 years, beadwork artist Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé has been grounded in her community of Beaver Creek. It's a point of pride for her to call it her hometown. "It's so much different when you actually go back home and you know where your family was born, where they hunted," she said. "That connection of just understanding that, 'I am...
Each time Kevin Barr and Boyd Benjamin perform at the Moosehide Gathering Cultural Festival near Dawson City, they strive to uphold a sacred vision of Indigenous elders: creating safe spaces for participants to reconnect with their inner selves, and with each other. Kevin is of Anishnaabe ancestry and was adopted into Carcross-Tagish First Nation. ...
A visual artist from Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation near Dawson City, Jackie Olson is ready to move First Nations art onward to a better place. "We don't need to go back to who we were, because we'll never get there; we've lost that," she said. "So, how do we get to a new place, as Indigenous people, and the feeling that it's ours?" Jackie says tha...
Jackie Olson 2023 Longlist Artist Bio Jackie Olson was born and raised in Dawson City and is a citizen of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation. Trained as a painter, Jackie received a BFA from the Alberta College of Art in 1992, and has been creating and learning new...
Film Events. Film activities include film screenings, film selections, and more. KIAC is proud to host an exciting roster of film screenings and film-related events throughout the year, such as the 48 Hour Film Challenge and Dawson City International Short Film Festival, numerous workshops, and other opportunities.
Red Hands is an art piece by Yukon artist Jackie Olson created in 2023. It was added to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection in 2023.
