Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Tomás Matos (2016 Dance) set to star in Queens of The Dead, a new horror comedy directed by Tina Romero
- Jax Neal (2018 Writing) appointed Future Corps Director of the 2024 Brave New Voices Youth Poetry Festival in Washington D.C.
- Julius Rodriguez (2014 Jazz) debuts NPR Tiny Desk Concert
- Cornelius Tulloch (2016 Design, Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) featured in the Miami Herald
- Rachel Zhang (2015, 2016 Visual Arts) receives New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2024 Recharge New Surrealist Prize
Kudos
- Leo Castañeda (2006 Visual Arts) released the trailer for Levels & Bosses: Camoflux, a single-player puzzle adventure across neo-primordial worlds
- Lauren Cheng’s (2024 Design) artwork selected to hang in the U.S. Capitol as part of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition
- Zeke Edmonds (2013 Theater) will star as Dr. Pomatter in San Francisco Playhouse’s production of Waitress
- Emei (2018 Voice) released Scatterbrain EP (Deluxe) on all major music platforms
- Jabu Graybeal (2018, 2019 Dance) and collaborator Cornelio Joseph featured on America’s Got Talent
- Jay Julio (2016 Classical Music) joining the North American tour (Angelica company) of Hamilton as Violin III/Viola
- Pascal Le Boeuf (2004 Classical Music, Jazz) worked as mixing engineer for “Oreals” by Rudresh Mahanthappa, a track on For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, winner of the 2024 GRAMMY Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
- Coralina Rodriguez Meyer (2000 Visual Arts) named 2024 Ankhlave Garden Project Fellow
- Elaina Stuppler (2024 Classical Music, Voice) selected as All Classical Radio’s 2024 Young Artist in Residence
On the Calendar
- Laurel Aronian (2023 Voice) performing at the Bedford Playhouse Café in New York on August 2
- Victoria Canal’s(2015 Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) Just What I Needed 2024 World Tour begins August 17
- Diana Eusebio (2016 Design & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) showing solo exhibition, Alchemy: Pigments of Probability, at Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, FL, on view through September 1
- Tarell Alvin McCraney’s (1999 Theater) play, The Brothers Size, begins previews at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, CA on August 14
- Sadie Shae’s (2021 Theater) Smokeshow: A Surrealist Boxing Match premiering at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland, on August 5-10
- Carole Silverstein (1984 Visual Arts) presenting solo exhibition, this ache in your heart is holy, at Nancy Toomey Fine Art at Minnesota Street Projects in San Francisco, on view through August 10
- Asia Stewart’s (2014 Theater) show, Fabric Softener, making off-Broadway premiere at The Shed in New York City on July 25-27
- Malaika Temba’s (2014 Visual Arts) solo exhibition, This Bridge Called Our Backs, on view at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL through August 31
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