Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Matt Bomer (1996 Theater) featured in The New York Times
- Nicole Eisenman (1983 Visual Arts) featured in artnet
- Nile Harris (2013 Theater) featured in The New York Times
- Mario Layne Fabrizio (2014, 2015 Jazz) featured in Earshot Jazz
- Sarah Paulson (1993 Theater) featured in Vogue
Kudos
- Daniel Colaner (2021, 2023 Classical Music) performed for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Members and Patrons Holiday Party on the museum’s 1830 Appleton organ
- Varus Das (2018, 2019 Jazz) is a new Yamaha Artist
- Moe Fienberg (2018 Jazz) wrote the horn parts and played trumpet for Ghadban’s new EP, The Angriest You Could Possibly Be
- Jay Julio (2016 Classical Music) joined the Marquette Symphony Orchestra for a feature performance on January 20 as a Youth Concerto Competition winner
- Samora Pinderhughes (2009, 2010 Jazz) and Mythili Prakash (2001 Dance) named United States Artists 2024 USA Fellows
- Fall Raye (2018, 2019 Jazz) released new album, Fall
- Grace Talusan (Writing National Selection Panelist) published new essay, “The Haunted,” in The Seventh Wave magazine
- Christian Yom (2023 Classical Music) received a 2023 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award
On the Calendar
- Tariq Al-Sabir (2011 Voice) presenting #UNWANTED at Joe’s Pub on February 1
- Adam Amram (2012 Visual Arts) exhibiting in Yale School of Art’s Painting/Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition Part II, on view February 7-17
- Eric Anthony (1997 Theater) starring in the Playwrights’ Arena world premiere production of THRE3 by Nick Salamone, a queer meditation on Chekhov’s Three Sisters, February 15-March 18
- Jon Batiste (2005 Jazz) headlining Montreux Jazz Festival Miami on March 1
- Hernan Bas (1996 Photography & Visual Arts) will be honored as the Artist Honoree at The Bass Ball: 60th Anniversary on January 25
- Alberto Checa (2017 Visual Arts) opening solo show, Amidst Twin Suns, at Oolite Arts on February 7
- Mathis Picard (2014 Jazz) performing at Montreux Jazz Festival Miami on March 3
- Elena Pinderhughes (2013 Jazz, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) performing at GroundUp Music Festival in Miami as the Artist-at-Large, February 2-4
- Nadir Souirgi (1994 Visual Arts) exhibiting in Yale School of Art’s Painting/Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition Part I on view through January 30
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