YoungArts Community Spotlight: November 2025

By YoungArts | November 26, 2025

Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Congratulations to the 2026 YoungArts Winners Sarah Arison (Board Chair) featured in Observer Timothée Chalamet (2013 Theater) featured in…

YoungArts Guide to Miami Art Week 2025

By YoungArts | November 21, 2025

Miami Art Week 2025 is almost here! Soon, we’ll welcome the global art community and our local neighbors to our city’s largest annual celebration of art and culture. As you’re working on your Miami Art Week plans, check out the list below to see where you can find the YoungArts…

Microgrant Monday: October 2025

By YoungArts | October 27, 2025

Since November 2018, the YoungArts Microgrants program distributes thousands of dollars monthly to support YoungArts winners with expenses related to professional or artistic development, including travel expenses to a residency, registration fees for a conference or class, the purchase of equipment, studio rental fees,…

YoungArts Community Spotlight: October 2025

By YoungArts | October 24, 2025

In the News Ethan Buck (2021, 2022 Jazz) and Daiki Nakajima’s (2021 Jazz) collective LOBE released debut album, was that on purpose? supported by a YoungArts Microgrant Misty Copeland (Guest Artist and 2025 Arison Awardee) highlighted in The New York Times for…

Meet Your Lifelong Collaborators at YoungArts

By YoungArts | October 7, 2025

YoungArts is truly for life. From the moment someone is named a YoungArts award winner, they become part of an intergenerational, interdisciplinary community that supports their creative journey at every stage. For many artists, YoungArts is where lifelong collaborations begin. Connections sparked during National YoungArts Week and other programs often…

YoungArts Community Spotlight: September 2025

By YoungArts | September 30, 2025

In the News 20 YoungArts award winners named 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts Lorna Courtney (2016 Voice) featured on the Today Show and USA Today as Veronica in Heathers the Musical Kingston Ho (2017, 2018, 2019…

YoungArts Community Spotlight: August 2025

By YoungArts | August 28, 2025

Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Daniel Colaner (2021, 2023 Classical Music) named a winner of the Regional Competition for Young Organists sponsored by the American Guild of Organists (AGO)…

YoungArts Community Spotlight: July 2025

By YoungArts | July 29, 2025

Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Micaela Diamond (2017 Theater) to star in the world premiere of The Seat of Our Pants at The Public Theater, featured in Broadway World…

YoungArts Community Spotlight: June 2025

By YoungArts | June 27, 2025

Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Lorna Courtney (2016 Voice) to star in Heathers the Musical Off-Broadway in New York City, featured in People Magazine Mara Jill Herman (2003 Theater)…

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries with Katerina McCrimmon

By YoungArts | June 26, 2025

The first time I heard about YoungArts, I thought—Is this real? Could a program truly be this life-changing? It was. And it still is. My name is Katerina McCrimmon, and I am a 2016 YoungArts winner in Theater. Growing up as a performing arts student in Miami, being named a…

YoungArts Community Spotlight: May 2025

By YoungArts | May 23, 2025

Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists. In the News Desmond Diehl (2024, 2025 Jazz) featured in TAPinto Basking Ridge Jennifer Kim (2025 Design) named 2025 Orange County Artist of…

Meet the 2025 Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship Recipient

By YoungArts | May 22, 2025

Each year, the Gordon Parks Foundation grants a $7,500 unrestricted cash award to one recent YoungArts award winner who represents the depth, breadth and integrity of Gordon Parks’s work. This year’s scholarship recipient is Naliyah Salahuddin (2025 Visual Arts). Salahuddin was awarded at the…