Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Sarah Arison (Board Chair) penned an article, “Art We Love: A Transformative Impressionist Journey,” published in Artnet
- Andie Aylsworth (2018 Visual Arts), Walker Bankson (2017, 2018 Photography), Tiarra Bell (2016 Design), July Londono (2014, 2015 Design) and Maya Ragazzo (2013 Film) featured in WWD with the launch of the YoungArts x Anthropologie digital marketplace
- Roderick George (2003 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) awarded the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award
- Amanda Gorman (2015, 2016 Writing) recited new poem at the Democratic National Convention, highlighted in NPR
- Christian Lee’s (2022 Photography) project featured in TIME Magazine and awarded the TIME x ASMP Global Photographic Portraiture Prize
- Jordan Rice (2020 Theater) will star in the tour of the Tony Award-Winning play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, as Marie Ndiaye, featured in Playbill
- Jan Vargas Nedvetsky (2024 Classical Music) featured on WFMT Chicago in a live solo recital
Kudos
- Nicole Acosta (2022, 2023 Voice) recently performed on Season 3 of Fox’s reality competition, I Can See Your Voice
- Daveed Baptiste (2016 Photography, Visual Arts) launched debut fashion collection, Ti Maché
- Nicole Cooley’s (1984 Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Writing National Selection Panel) seventh book of poems, Mother WaterAsh, published by Louisiana State University Press
- Joanna Fuhrman (1991 Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) new book of poems, Data Mind, published by Curbstone Books
- Matthew Scott (2024 Classical Music) received the Young Steinway Artist designation
- Kevin Sherwin (2012 Classical Music) released new album for guitar, Exchanges
- Kylie Wang’s (2023 Writing) co-authored YA novel, Stuck in Her Head, won Gold in the Best First Book (Juv/YA) category in the IPPYs
On the Calendar
- Nina Osoria Ahmadi (2019 Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and Carlos Hernandez (2019 Photography) participating in an artist talk at BAH Gallery in Brooklyn on August 31
- James Balo (2018 Visual Arts), David Correa (2017 Visual Arts), Nichole Hernandez (2020 Visual Arts) and Isabel Oliva (2017 Visual Arts) opening their studios to the public at the YoungArts Gallery in Miami on August 25
- David Correa (2017 Visual Arts) presenting a film screening of Weeping a Petroleum Lubricant at the YoungArts Plaza in Miami on August 29
- Marie Claire Macadar (2013 Visual Arts) presenting a new puppet show, Puppetzilla: Summertime Slam!, at The Mayflower Club in North Hollywood on August 24
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