Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Black Gatsby (2005 Theater) featured in People Magazine
- Kate Louissaint (2021 Theater) made her Broadway debut in A Wonderful World music
- Billy Porter (1987 Theater) will be performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Katya Richardson (2016 Classical Music) won an Emmy at the 67th NY Emmy Awards for Musical Composition/Arrangement as composer of the score to the PBS special, “Keeping the Pinelands.”
- Sloane Simon (2021, 2022 Voice) delivered a powerful performance as a contestant on Season 26 of The Voice
Kudos
- Paloma Dineli Chesky (2024 Voice) released new music video, Monster
- Sarah Loucks (2009 Theater) awarded a MAPFund grant for “Landscape Mechanical,” a devised performance project about labor, masculinity, and American car culture
- Eva Rae Martinez (2018, 2019 Voice) had debut performance at Carnegie Hall on November 11
- Gabriel Sosa (2003 Visual Arts) selected as a 2024 Boston Artadia Awardee
- Desiree Winns (2018 Writing) is completing Fulbright research in Lithuania and was also selected for the first class of John Lewis-Fulbright fellows
On the Calendar
- Joshua Banbury (2013 Theater, Voice) performing at the FuseBox Salon Series at the Elizabet Ney Muesum in Austin, TX on November 21
- Corrine Botz (1995 Photography & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) presenting an artist talk with CPW in Kingston, NY and online on November 21
- Paloma Dineli Chesky (2024 Voice) performing at Birdland Theater in New York, NY on November 21
- Emmet Cohen (2008, 2009 Jazz) on Midwest tour with the Emmet Cohen Trio during November
- AIRIE Alumni Exhibition featuring Diana Eusebio (2016 Design & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and curated by Cornelius Tulloch (2016 Design, Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) opening at AIRIE Nest Gallery in Homestead, FL on November 23
- Rosie Gordon-Wallace (Trustee) curated DVCAI exhibition opening at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL on November 19
- Amanda Krische (2012 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) presenting LOST RELATIONS: Methodologies of Impermanence, an interdisciplinary performance, at Rockaway Park, NY on December 1
- Joe Serafini (2016 Theater) celebrating the release of his holiday EP with a Christmas LIVE! show at The Green Room 42 in New York, NY on December 1
- Jan Vargas Nedvetsky (2024 Classical Music) performing solo of Haydn C cello concerto with the Academy Orchestra in Evanston, IL on November 16
- Roxanne Young (2006 Dance)performing solo work bond/unbound/the undoing for Artist of Color Council (Movement Research) at Judson Church in New York, NY on December 2
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