YoungArts isn’t just a prestigious stage for the next generation’s most talented young artists. The organization also provides awardees, ages 15 to 18, a week of master classes, mentoring, and community building to support their budding careers. And according to past winners with distinction, those five days in Miami, where performing, visual, and literary artists […]
We already knew the Class of 2020 was full of stars—but two of them in particular were just awarded one of the nation’s highest honors for high school seniors. Nouhoum Koita and Pranav Tadikonda are now Presidential Scholars in the Arts after being nominated by the National YoungArts Foundation. Check out both of their YoungArts […]
Michelle May (photo by Erin Baiano) The National YoungArts Foundation offers a yearly award to talented young people in the visual, literary, design and performing arts fields. In 2017, that could be you! Many of the dancers we know and love have been recognized by the YoungArts Foundation—like our 2015 Cover Model Search winner Michelle […]
Sarah Pippin (photo by Erin Baiano) The National YoungArts Foundation offers a yearly award to talented young people in the visual, literary, design and performing arts fields. In 2016, that could be you! Many of the dancers we know and love have been recognized by the YoungArts Foundation—in 2015 alone finalists included Sarah Pippin, one […]
Earlier this month, 170 standout high schoolers ventured to Miami to participate in National YoungArts Week. The group of YoungArts finalists—whittled down from roughly 11,000 applicants nationwide—included 21 dancers, and they were treated to master classes with artists like former New York City Ballet principal Phillip Neal (who’s a YoungArts alum himself), Miami City Ballet […]
A young Billy Bell at YoungArts Week 2008 (by Juan Cabrera) As of this week, applications for the National YoungArts Foundation’s 2014 program are officially being accepted! The list of now-famous YoungArts alumni is a long one: Longtime Alvin Ailey dancer Linda Celeste Sims was a 1994 YoungArts Winner for dance, and choreographic genius Billy […]
Back in October 2009, you met the lovely Ida Saki, who won our Cover Model Search contest thanks to her beautiful technique and irresistible smile. Though she was just 17 at the time, we already knew Ida was going to make it big. Not only was she a talented dancer, she also impressed us with […]
Photo of Arshya Gurbani, a classical Indian dancer from Fullerton, CA, performing at YoungArts Week, by Robert Leslie/YoungArts World dance made a strong showing at the 30th YoungArts Week in Miami, FL, earlier this year. The annual event, produced by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), gives talented teens from various disciplines, […]