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) and Michi Jigarjian (Trustee) highlighted in Whitewall as Women in the Business of Culture
- Michi Jigarjian (Trustee), founder of Work of Art Holdings, featured in Harper’s Bazaar, with a new exhibition for Women’s History Month in collaboration with Another Tomorrow in New York City; a portion of the proceeds benefit YoungArts
- Nia Akilah Robinson’s (2014 Theater) play, The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar), featured in The New York Times
- Jaden Teague-Núñez (2025 Classical Music) featured in Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Blog
- Jan Vargas Nedvetsky (2024 Classical Music) interviewed on From the Top radio show
Kudos
- Catherine Chen (2010 Classical Music) released Inglenook, a new podcast musical available for streaming on Spotify, supported by a YoungArts Microgrant
- Rebecca Hurd (2012 Theater) cast in Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway
- Jay Jackson (2007 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts)and Blake Pfeil (2006 Theater) featured in The TMI Project Story Hour podcast, nominated for Best Indie Podcast at the Ambies
- James Patrick Nelson’s (2004 Theater) queer romantic dramedy TV pilot, For Years to Come, streaming online with Short Frame
- Carlynn Newhouse (2018 Writing) released new poetry book, Even The Tender Things Grow Teeth
On the Calendar
- Juan José Cielo’s (2015 Visual Arts) video works will be shown on the Manhattan Bridge as part of the Dumbo Projection Project in collaboration with Smack Mellon in New York City, April 3-27
- Coralina Rodriguez Meyer’s (2000 Visual Arts) solo exhibition, Sueños Senos Exhumadas del Cenote Yemaya, on view at Baxter St in New York City through April 16
- Ida Saki (2010 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) performing in the world premiere of SISSY at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City, April 24-26
- Isaiah Saranow (2024 Classical Music) premiering new work, “Faux Dances,” as the Nu Deco NXT Composer-in-Residence during the Nu Deco NXT Spring Concert at the Moss Center in Miami on March 29
- Michael Thurber (2006 Classical Music) presents “Michael Thurber & Friends” in partnership with YoungArts at Joe’s Pub in New York City on April 3
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