• Source: YoungArts

YoungArts (previously National YoungArts Foundation and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, or NFAA) is an American charity established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to help nurture emerging high-school artists. The foundation is based in Miami, Florida. In 1981, Ted Arison gave $5 million to launch the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
YoungArts nominates up to 60 candidates for consideration as U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts following participation in 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
Dance – ballet, choreography, hip hop, jazz, modern, tap, and world dance forms
Design Arts - architecture, interior, product, graphic, fashion and theater design
Film – narrative, documentary, experimental, and animation
Jazz – composers and instrumentalists
Photography
Theater – musical, classical and contemporary spoken theater
Visual Arts
Voice – classical, jazz, popular and singer/songwriter
Writing – creative non-fiction, novel, play or script, poetry, short story, spoken word




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.




Notable Alumni


Doug Aitken
Abigail Barlow
Matt Bomer
Timothée Chalamet
Jessica Darrow
Viola Davis
Neal Dodson
Kimiko Glenn
Amanda Gorman
Anna Gunn
Sam Lipsyte
Ryan McCartan
Nicki Minaj
King Princess
Billy Porter
Andrew Rannells
Ben Levi Ross
Max Schneider
Hunter Schaefer
Justice Smith
Kerry Washington
Chris Young




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.




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.




References






External links


YoungArts website
Presidential Scholars Program

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Timothée Chalamet
• YoungArts
• Presidential Scholars Program
• Michael Benjamin Washington
• Christian Hebel
• Masterclass (TV series)
• Zuzanna Szadkowski
• Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
• Steven Pasquale
• Logan Nelson
• Joaquina Kalukango