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) and will be performing at the AGO National Convention in St. Louis, MO next summer
- Matthew Garcia’s (2022 Jazz) journey to the Juilliard School’s Master of Music Performance program featured in CBS Texas
- Julian Jordan’s (2020 Film) feature film debut “Real Life” featured in Indiewire. Watch the full film on YouTube
- King Princess (2015 Voice) profiled in The New Yorker ahead of Girl Violence album release
- Jinan Laurentia Woo (2023 Classical Music) named a 2025 Davidson Fellow and awarded a $50,000 scholarship
Kudos
- Ana Isabella España (2023 Classical Music) received the 2025 Salon De Virtuosi career grant
- Kevin Hopkins (2018 Visual Arts) was selected for “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today,” an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on view in Washington D.C. from October 18, 2025- August 30, 2026
- Vivian Kao (2024, 2025 Classical Music) made her debut at The Kennedy Center during the Access/VSA International Young Musicians Program Awardee Concert
- Lucy Khadder (2024, 2025 Jazz) named 28th recipient of Berklee’s Jimmy Lyons Scholarship
- Shay Lari-Hosain (2016 Photography) won first place Best of Show in juried exhibition at New Museum Los Gatos
- Cyrus Mackey (2019 Jazz) named a Strathmore Class of 2026 Artist in Residence
- Chloe McKay (2024, 2025 Voice) won first place at the Junior American Traditions Vocal Collection Competition in Savannah, GA
- Caroline Fairey Meese’s (2016 Writing) first chapbook of poems, LOWERCOUNTRY, was published by elsewhere micro-press
- James Patrick Nelson (2004 Theater) apeared on the Happy Healthy Homo podcast to promote his queer romantic dramedy TV pilot, For Years to Come, which streams now on YouTube’s Short Frame
- DJ Smart (2007 Dance) is joining the Wicked National Tour as Chistery
On the Calendar
- Daveed Baptiste (2016 Photography, Visual Arts) selected as a featured designer for the 18th Annual Harlem’s Fashion Row Fashion Show & Style Awards being held in New York, NY on September 9
- JT Church (2024 Dance) will be part of the ensemble cast of West Side Story performing with the LA Opera in Los Angeles, CA, September 20-October 12
- Lavanya Karthikeyan (2024 Dance) performing at the Indian Fine Arts Academy of San Deigo’s 8th Annual Youth Festival in San Diego, CA on August 31
- Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s (2008 Visual Arts) first career survey “Between Bodies and Border: Queer Diasporic Cartographies of Timothy Hyunsoo Lee” is on view at Palacio Consistorial in Cartagena, Spain, through September 28, presented on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of La Mar de Arte Festival
- Rachel Webb (2016, 2017 Voice) to lead in pre-Broadway stage adaptation of PURPLE RAIN at Hennepin Arts’ historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, MN from October 16-November 16
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