Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Congratulations to the 2026 YoungArts Winners
- Sarah Arison (Board Chair) featured in Observer
- Timothée Chalamet (2013 Theater) featured in Vogue as the December cover story
- Emmet Cohen (2008, 2009 Jazz) named Pianist of the Year in Downbeat Magazine
- Lorna Courtney (2016 Voice) profiled in Harper’s Bazaar
- Vince Gilligan’s (1985 Visual Arts) new series ,”Pluribus,” now streaming on Apple TV, reviewed in The New York Times
Kudos
- Bril Barrett (1994 Dance) selected as a 2024–2025 National Dance Education Organization Lifetime Achievement Award (Living Artist/Educator) Honoree
- Briana Cox (2013, 2014 Writing) awarded Best Tennessee Writer at the Nashville Film Festival for the script “TO THE FAMILY OF VERLEAN BANKS” about the 1961 Freedom Rides
- Emily Drennan (1998 Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) nominated for a 2026 Grammy for “Best Choral Performance”
- Mario Layne Fabrizio (2014, 2015 Jazz) released debut album, kostochki. This album was supported by a YoungArts Microgrant
- Mara Jill Herman (2003 Theater) working as a consulting producer for the Oscar-qualifying short film, “Malka”
- Andrew Nemr (1997 Dance) released Dark Night, a new limited series podcast exploring “Dark Night of the Soul” by St. John of the Cross
- Emily Pogorelc (2014 Voice) made her debut at Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna, Austria in Verdi’s “Falstaff”
- Jan Vargas Nedvetsky (2024 Classical Music) performed at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert in Chicago, IL
On the Calendar
- View the YoungArts Guide to Miami Art Week to see where you can find the YoungArts community, December 1-7
- Juan José Cielo’s (2015 Visual Arts) film “Does it work on Mars” on view at Nicole Longdecker Gallery in Houston, TX through January 25
- Micaela Diamond (2017 Theater) starring in THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS at The Public Theater in New York, NY through December 7
- Katerina McCrimmon (2016 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) makes her Lincoln Center debut with with the cabaret show, Naked, in New York, NY on December 11
- DJ Smart (2007 Dance) starring as Chistery in Wicked’s National Tour, currently on tour throughout North America
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