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Template:Short description Template:Multiple issuesTemplate:Infobox organization YoungArts (previously National YoungArts Foundation and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, or NFAA) is an American charity established by Lin and Ted Arison to help nurture emerging high-school artists. YoungArts is a national arts organization that supports artists across all disciplines and ages from high school onwards[1]. The foundation is based in Miami, Florida and began in 1981 when Ted Arison gave $5 million to launch the foundation.

The YoungArts Award is noted as the most difficult and most prestigious literary, performing, and visual arts competition for high school students. If selected, it is an incredible testament to prodigious talent in the field. Approximately 6% are selected as Winners, with the top 1% selected as Winners with Distinction. Winners with Distinction are invited to compete for the Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award (a $50,000 writing scholarship, only for writing winners), cash prizes of up to $10,000, and more. They are invited to National YoungArts Week, an all-expenses-paid experience in Miami, Florida.[2][3]

From 1982 to 2025[4], YoungArts nominated candidates for consideration as U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts following participation in National YoungArts Week.

YoungArts disciplines

The YoungArts application consists of the following ten disciplines across the visual, literary, design and performing arts:

  • Classical Music – composition and instrumental[5]
  • Dance – ballet, choreography, hip hop, jazz, modern, tap, and world dance forms[6]
  • Design Arts - architecture, interior, product, graphic, fashion and theater design[7]
  • Film – narrative, documentary, experimental, and animation[8]
  • Jazz – composers and instrumentalists[9]
  • Photography[10]
  • Theater – musical, classical and contemporary spoken theater[11]
  • Visual Arts - paintings, portraits, landscapes, artworks, drawings, murals, artistic inventions and art projects[12]
  • Voice – classical, jazz, popular and singer/songwriter[13]
  • Writing – creative non-fiction, novel, play or script, poetry, short story, spoken word[14]

Other programs and activities

Several documentaries have been produced highlighting this unique program and its award recipients. Most notably, Rehearsing a Dream, produced by the Simon and Goodman Picture Company, was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. A documentary television series entitled YoungArts MasterClass, in which program alumni are teamed with famous mentors, is in its second season on HBO. YoungArts has developed a study guide, based on the HBO series, for high school teachers with Teachers College, Columbia University.[15]

Notable alumni

Alumni opportunities

Every YoungArts winner becomes a part of the YoungArts alumni community, an artistic family of more than 20,000 alumni. YoungArts makes open calls to alumni to provide opportunities and inclusion in its programming and events.[31]

Budget

YoungArts has an endowment of $42 million. Its $6 million annual budget is expected to increase as much as 40 percent as its operating expenses grow.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Sarah Arison Will Never Sell a Living Artist". https://www.frieze.com/article/sarah-arison-will-never-sell-living-artist. 
  2. ↑ "Higher paying Jobs in Australia". https://articlesfix.com/higher-paying-jobs-in-australia/. 
  3. ↑ "Roots of Miami's vibrant arts scene were planted in the 1980s". Miami Herald. September 10, 2015. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jordan-levin/article34705572.html. 
  4. ↑ "Presidential Scholars Program Fact Sheet". https://www.ed.gov/media/document/psp-candidate-press-packet-2026-arts-108876.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "Classical Music". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/classical-music. 
  6. ↑ "Dance". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/dance. 
  7. ↑ "Design". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/design. 
  8. ↑ "Cinematic Arts". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/cinematic-arts. 
  9. ↑ "Jazz". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/jazz. 
  10. ↑ "Photography". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/photography. 
  11. ↑ "Theater". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/theater. 
  12. ↑ "Visual Arts". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/visual-arts. 
  13. ↑ "Voice". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/voice. 
  14. ↑ "Writing". YoungArts. http://www.youngarts.org/writing. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Robin Pogrebin (October 2, 2012), Gehry to Turn Bacardi Complex Into Arts Campus New York Times.
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  17. ↑ "Youngarts Winners 2016". https://youngarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2016-YoungArts-Winners-List.pdf. 
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  20. ↑ "Behind the green | Segerstrom Center for the Arts" (in en-us). https://www.scfta.org/discover-watch-listen/articles/_/behind-the-green. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 "Our History | 40 years for artists" (in en-US). https://youngarts.org/history/. 
  22. ↑ Vazquez, Ashley (2015-09-26). "YoungArts’ Second Annual Awareness Day Is a Drag (in a Good Way)" (in en-US). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/laganja-estranja-performs-at-youngarts-827333/. 
  23. ↑ "Chance the Rapper Collaborator Grace Weber Began Her Career in Miami's YoungArts' Program" (in en-US). 2018-01-08. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/uncategorized/youngarts-alum-grace-weber-collaborated-with-chance-the-rapper-and-won-a-grammy-9965380/. 
  24. ↑ "YoungArts Information Session | Oct. 15 and 19 | TU Dance" (in en-US). https://www.tudance.org/youngarts-information-session-oct-15-and-19/. 
  25. ↑ "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fall 2020 Performance Season - The Metropolitan Museum of Art" (in en). https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/metlivearts-fall-2020-2020-news. 
  26. ↑ "Tony Yazbeck, from YoungArts Alum to Broadway Powerhouse" (in en). http://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/the-dance-enthusiast-asks/view/Yasbeck-15. 
  27. ↑ Heyman, Marshall (April 8, 2016). "YoungArts Steps Into the Spotlight". Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/youngarts-steps-into-the-spotlight-1460065515. 
  28. ↑ Kleinman, Rebecca (January 14, 2019). "L.A. Artist Duo Haas Brothers Honored by Miami's YoungArts Foundation". Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/la-artist-duo-haas-brothers-honored-by-miamis-youngarts-foundation-1175735. 
  29. ↑ Anderson, Samuel (April 21, 2017). "Salman Rushdie, Debbie Allen, and Christian Slater Spend a Night at the Museum". Vogue. https://www.vogue.com/article/young-arts-new-york-gala-2017-salman-rushdie-andrew-rannells. 
  30. ↑ "Instagram". https://www.instagram.com/p/DQpE7SjEb3f/. 
  31. ↑ "Our Community of Literary, Visual + Performing Artists". http://www.youngarts.org/alumni. 
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