Come join us for a talk by Whitehorse-based artist Dustin Sheldon about his new exhibition Form-Lines and Back Again: A Hobbit’s Art Show at the Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery.
Dustin Sheldon is a Teslin Tlingit artist born in Victoria and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon. Working across drawing, formline design, painting, carving and public art, Dustin brings Tlingit visual language together with his own interests, imagination and sense of humour.
Much of Dustin’s practice begins with detailed graphite drawings, including designs for Tlingit armour, weapons and other imagined forms. Dustin has been drawing throughout his life, from character art to landscapes, and his practice continues to expand across materials and scales. He received a YVR Art Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship in 2023 and was a 2025 Artist in Residence at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture in Dawson City. His recent public projects include artwork for the Yukon’s highway welcome signs and a large-scale mural created at Titan in downtown Whitehorse.
