YoungArts Lab

YoungArts Lab invites award winners from all 10 disciplines to participate in interactive workshops.

Led by a diverse team of professional artists, YoungArts Lab encourages experimentation through collaborative artmaking, immersive exercises and interdisciplinary discussions, and explores principles of strengthening artistic practice and connecting to the larger arts ecosystem.

Chat Travieso works with a 2020 winner in Design Arts

Information for prospective participants

2025 award winners at all levels are invited to participate in YoungArts Lab in Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY and Nashville, TN. Participants are chosen by lottery. Please note that while award winners at all levels are welcome to enter the lottery, preference is given to winners who did not attend National YoungArts Week. 

2025 Program Details

YoungArts Lab: Los Angeles (March 20-23, 2025)
To support the needs of a community recently impacted by devastating wildfires, YoungArts Lab: Los Angeles will serve YoungArts winners living within a 60-mile radius of downtown Los Angeles. Through multidisciplinary arts activities that speak to the mind, body, and spirit, the program will focus on themes of rejuvenation and resiliency.  

YoungArts Lab: New York (April 24-27, 2025)
YoungArts Lab: New York will serve winners from across the country as together they collaboratively respond to the history and energy of artmaking in New York.

YoungArts Lab: Nashville (June 2-5, 2025)
YoungArts Lab: Nashville will celebrate the city’s unique musical history and practice. Vocalists, musicians, and writers are invited to apply for this collaborative exploration of music history and song creation.