Culture Quest – Past Recipients

APRIL 2022 INTAKE

Jackie Olson
“DIRE” – Curation of a multi-artist exhibit honouring salmon as life.

Doug Smarch
Skin boat building at the Great Northern Arts Festival

Dennis Shorty
“Healing through art, music and language” – Workshop series

Society of Something Shows
“Make Something” Artist Residency


JANUARY 2022 INTAKE

Harold Frost
Preserving Traditional Gwitchin Culture Through Music

Mary Caesar
Retrospective: An autobiographical exhibition of paintings and garments

Stormy Bradley
Generational Identities: Reclamation of Self-Expression through Regalia

Faye Chamberlain
“The Land is Medicine


SEPTEMBER 2021 INTAKE

Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation Heritage Department
Life History Film Mentorship

Amna Elnour (Disc Jockeys + Workshop Series)
DJ workshops geared towards youth

Kim Edgar (Hecate Press)
Northern mini-comic collection


APRIL 2021 INTAKE

Erica Dee Mah
Studio Album of Original Guzheng Songs

Gwaandak Theatre Society  
Annual Full Fall Production – “Women of the Fur Trade”

Kim Roberts
Ispiciwin “Journey”

Local Field School  
Local Field School: ASSEMBLY

Shirley Adamson  
“The Indian Princess”

Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé  
Stsay Ch’idzuu’ Camp

Yukon Pride Centre  
Yukon Pride 2021

JANUARY 2021 INTAKE

Klondike Visitors Association
Dawson City Summer Concert Series

Lulu Keating  
Creative Writing

North Pole Collective
North Pole Collective

Robyn McLeod  
Etǫ́ah gots’ęh Zhat’a Endáke ké Project (Flower and Space Mukluk Project)

YARAW (Yukon Artists in Residence and Workshops)  
Yukon Artists in Residence and Workshops 2021

SEPTEMBER 2020 INTAKE

“CFYT 106.9 FM (Dawson City Community Radio Society)”
CFYT Yukon Artists Radio Showcase

Gwaandak Theatre Society   
The Born Again Crow” – Theatre Production

Kimberly Edgar
“The Northern Gaze” – Pan-Territorial Comics Anthology

Teenage Life & Young Adults International Society  
Yukon African Music Festival 2021 

Yukon First Nation Culture & Tourism Association  
YFN 2020 – Leading with Culture, Phases 1-2

APRIL 2020 INTAKE

ArtsNet Society
Jenni House Artist Residency 

Friends of the Palace Grand  
Encounters of the Yukon” – Radio Dramas

Jennifer Kehoe  
Dawson Dance Team

Rebekah Miller  
Homesteading Colouring Zine

Society of Something Shows/Skookum Jim  
Remote Emerging Artist Residency

Splintered Craft/Skookum Jim  
The Underground Runaround 

Town of Watson Lake
Watson Lake’s Live Market

JANUARY 2020 INTAKE

Clea Roberts
Tombstone Arts, Culture and Science Compendium Project

Music Yukon 
Communities in the Park

Borealis Soul 
Wake”- Remount and Tour Preparation 

SEPTEMBER 2019 INTAKE

Caribou Woman
“Quill Walker”

Evan Rensch 
Silver Gelatin Dry Plate Research Residency at Vermont Studio Centre

Nakai Theatre 
Nakai Theatre Knowledge Circle

Rebekah Miller 
Duck Triptych

Robyn McLeod 
Dene Futurisms Collection Project

Skookum Jim Friendship Centre
46th Annual Skookum Jim Folklore Show

APRIL 2019 INTAKE

Artsnet Society
Jenni House Artist Residency Project

Music Yukon  
Music Yukon Break Out West Community Tour

Jackie Olson
“Raven Spirit Essence”

TH + Danoja Zho Cultural Centre  
Storyteller Residency and Community Outreach Program

YFN Culture and Tourism Association
Yukon Indigenous Song and Language Collaboration

The Heart of Riverdale
Yukon Youth Artist Showcase

Doug Smarch  
Skin Boat Project