Introducing the YoungArts Community Spotlight! Each month, we will highlight upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Daveed Baptiste (2016 Photography & Visual Arts) and Cornelius Tulloch (2016 Design, Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) featured in The New Yorker with group exhibition, Rest is Power, curated by the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU
- Christian Burse (2021 Dance) featured in Dance Magazine’s Dancer Spotlight
- Tarell Alvin McCraney (1999 Theater) named artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles
- Billy Porter (1987 Theater) raising money in South Florida for LGBTQ history education
- Hunter Schafer (2017 Design) in conversation with artist Viviane Sassen in AnOther Magazine
- Amanda Seales (1999 Theater) launches political comedy documentary, In Amanda We Trust
- James Allister Sprang (2008 Visual Arts) premieres Rest Within the Wake at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Kudos
- Kathryn McCarthy‘s (2015 Film) film Exhausted Woman selected for the Portland Comedy Film Festival
- Tyreek McDole (2019 Voice) named finalist for the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
- Theo Taplitz’s (2019 & 2020 Film) film Gable chosen for Sitges, an Academy Award qualifying genre film festival in Barcelona*
- Kylie Wang (2023 Writing) publishing first book, Stuck in Her Head, with Earnshaw Books*
- Arianna Warsaw Fan-Rauch (2004 Classical Music) releasing new book Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music published by Penguin Random House
On the Calendar
- Michael Aronov (1994 Theater) presents SEAGUTS at The Actors Studio in New York City through November 13
- Daniel Arsham’s (1999 Visual Arts) exhibition, Score and Sound, opening at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland on November 3
- Max Colby’s (2008 Visual Arts) exhibition, Transform Any Room, on view at the Des Moines Art Center through January 14
- Austin Cullen’s (2015 Photography) exhibition, A Natural History (Built to be Seen), on view at Texas Tech University’s School of Art SRO Photo Gallery through October 28*
- Isabella Mellado (2014 Visual Arts) exhibiting in group show, Botany of Desire, on view at Swivel Gallery in Brooklyn through November 11
- Grace Weber (2006 Theater, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) released her album, Paperflower, and is going on the road with her headlining tour in November
*Denotes project supported by YoungArts Microgrant
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