2023 National YoungArts Week is around the corner!Only a few weeks are left until the finalists arrive in Miami, enjoy collaborating with other winners from across the country, receive mentorship from leading artists in their disciplines and wow us with nightly performances and presentations! All this excitement has us fondly remembering…
Miami Art Week 2022 is here! We’re excited to welcome the global art community and our local neighbors to our city’s largest annual celebration of art and culture. Miami Art Week is a special time for YoungArts as we get to see some amazing past award winners showing work all…
In life and in art, the personal is often universal. A memory so specific to one often resonates with countless others. Most everyone can see a piece in themselves when others share their own cherished history. Perhaps that’s why Mark Fleuridor’s work has captivated so many, from the institutional curators who…
Home: Reimagining Interiority, a group exhibition featuring works by 20 YoungArts award winners, opened at the YoungArts Gallery in spring 2022. Co-curated by Dr. Joan Morgan and Dr. Deborah Willis, directors at the NYU Institute of African American Affairs, Center for Black Visual Culture, the show explores the significant ways…
Young artists today are navigating a challenging environment when striving for a sustainable career. As funding for arts education dwindles in public schools, the cost of art school is only getting higher: As The Washington Post reports, 7 out of 10 of the most…
Shamel Pitts (2003 Dance) recalls the feeling in 2020 of emerging from six months of dancing in his living room and beginning residency at New York Live Arts, in partnership with YoungArts, for development of his new work, Touch of RED. “To come back to a theater, to be back…
Recognizing young artists’ need for a sense of community and desire to collaborate, YoungArts partnered with Aon on a series of virtual sessions focused on interdisciplinary collaboration and led by acclaimed jazz saxophonist and bandleader Javon Jackson and award-winning poet, writer and activist Nikki Giovanni.Modeled on their recently released album…
What does it take to establish and sustain a creative practice?Over the course of three days in May 2022, 40 YoungArts award winners across 10 disciplines gathered virtually to explore essential questions around the creative process and focus on new tools and concepts for their own artistic practices.Led by Torya…
As a visual artist, Juan Jose Cielo (2015 Visual Arts) chases the extraordinary in the everyday. His paintings imagine spatial landscapes, rendered in a realist style but portraying objects and scenes from his wildest imagination. Within these celestial tableaus, Cielo depicts stereotypical LatinX figures who look more like caricatures of…
Composer and musician Molly Joyce (2010 Classical Music) has an impaired left hand from a car accident she was in 20 years ago. Since then, she’s been on a journey from denying her disability to embracing it as a centerpiece of her artistic practice. This spring, Joyce began her time…
When I reach Michi Jigarjian by phone on a Wednesday afternoon, she cautions that she’s left her camera off because she’s driving. “I just left Rockaway Beach, where we’ve just wrapped up on a community day with artist Julia Chiang that brought 50 kids together with the artist to create…
In late January 2022, Bruce Bennett (2014 Photography) began his residency at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York in partnership with YoungArts, turning his lens on his relationship to celebrate the inherent magic of Black Love. Concluding with a public exhibition titled “Easy When The Love Don’t…
