THE YOUNGARTS STUDENT LIST SERVICE

Connecting the best high school artists in the nation with the best colleges,

universities and conservatories in the nation

About YoungArts and the YoungArts Student List ServiceThe National YoungArts Foundation was established in 1981 to identify and support the next generation of artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts, and serves as the exclusive nominating agency for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts. YoungArts’ 20,000-plus alumni include Kerry Washington, Vanessa Williams, Josh Gro-ban, Eric Owens, Terence Blanchard, Desmond Richardson and Doug Aitken. Each year, YoungArts receives more than 11,000 applications from some of the most talented high school artists across the country, whose work is then adjudicated by a noted panel of experts. YoungArts Panelists and Master Teachers include some of the most distin-guished artists in the world, such as Marina Abramovic, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Camille A. Brown, Plácido Domingo, Ben Folds, Frank Gehry, Malcolm Gets, Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Robert Redford, Kathleen Turner and Bruce Weber.

There are many young artists whom you may want to know about, but need YoungArts’ assistance to discover – like Yara Travieso:

“I hadn’t applied to Juilliard. I really didn’t think that was an option for me. I didn’t think I could get in. I didn’t think I could afford it...[Then] I got a phone call from my dean at the time...and he says...‘I’m sitting here at a dinner table with [Mikhail] Baryshnikov and Larry Rhodes, the director of the dance department at Juilliard, and you have an audition tomorrow morning...They just saw your performance at YoungArts and they’re insisting you must go to this audition.’ So it was an amazing audition. I got into Juilliard. And then on top of that, I got a full scholarship, all four years; really there was no other way I could have done that or that could have happened if it wasn’t for YoungArts and that wonderful week and that validation and that support.”

Yara TraviesoYoungArts Alumna (2005, Dance)Multimedia director, choreographer and co-founder of the Borscht Film Festival

At YoungArts, stories like Yara’s are the rule, rather than the exception. Over the last 33 years, YoungArts has helped connect some of the best students in the nation - like Yara - to some of the best schools in the nation - like The Juilliard School. The discipline and rigor of study required by artists are often the qualities most sought after by both artistic and academic higher education programs.

This successful track record prompted YoungArts to create a formal program, called the YoungArts Student List Service (YASLS), in order to provide access to its unique and exclusive pool of potential students - some of the nation’s best emerging artists in Cin-ematic Arts, Dance, Design Arts, Jazz, Music, Photography, Theater, Visual Arts, Voice and Writing - to a broader range of institutions and recruiters. As a YASLS subscriber, you will have the ability to view YoungArts artists’ adjudicated works, watch YoungArts dancers perform, listen to YoungArts musicians play and hear YoungArts singers sing - all from the comfort of your own office. Subscribers also receive detailed contact information for each applicant, and are able to sort students in a number of ways, including age, artistic discipline, award level, ethnicity and geographic location.

Subscribe to the YASLS today, and let YoungArts help you discover the next Yara, the next Viola Davis, the next Conrad Tao or the next Jenji Kohan – all of whom are YoungArts alumni.

“It really changed the whole trajectory of my

academic career because before YoungArts I didn’t know there were theater

scholarships. I didn’t think that was possible. So it really

transformed the whole landscape of what my options

were in terms of college.”

Kerry WashingtonYoungArts Alumna (1994, Theater)

Emmy-nominated actress currently starring in Scandal

Finding the best emerging visual, literary, design and performing artists in the nation is just a click awayEach year, YoungArts receives 11,000-plus applications from the country’s most talent-ed high school artists, ages 15-18 or in grades 10-12, in Cinematic Arts, Dance, Design Arts, Jazz, Music, Photography, Theater, Visual Arts, Voice, and Writing. From these, ap-proximately 700 winners, who are eligible to participate in YoungArts’ life-changing programs in Miami, New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., are selected through an intensive, blind adjudication process. YoungArts enlists a diverse panel of adjudica-tors who are artistically accomplished and highly-respected as practitioners and educa-tors within their fields.

• Achievement YoungArts applicants go on to attend some of the most presti-gious universities and arts conservatories in the United States, including Berk-lee College of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon Univer-sity, Cooper Union, Harvard University, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Maryland Institute College of Art, New England Conservatory, New York University, Oberlin College, Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Southern Califor-nia and Yale University.

• Scholarships YoungArts alumni self-reported that they were awarded close to $40 million in four-year merit scholarships in the last three years. Additionally, Rhode Island School of Design and Savannah College of Art and Design, among others, have set aside award money for YoungArts alumni, since they are such high achievers.

• Diversity YoungArts applicants represent a diverse group of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds from all 50 states. In 2014, the application pool in-cluded students who self-identified as 13% African-American, 13% Asian-Amer-ican, 50% Caucasian, 14% Latina/o, 10% Multiethnic and less than 1% Alaskan Native-Pacific Islander.

• U.S. Presidential Scholars At the request of the Commission on Presidential Scholars, which is appointed by the President of the United States, YoungArts serves as the exclusive nominating agency for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, the country’s highest honor for young artists. Each year, 20 high school seniors are recognized with this award for their high level of achievement in aca-demics, the arts and community service.

Benefits of the YoungArts Student List ServiceYASLS subscribers will receive the following:

• Detailed contact information for each YoungArts qualified applicant.• The ability to sort applicants in a number of ways, including age, artistic discipline,

award level, gender, ethnicity, school and geographic location. • Electronic access to view applicants’ audition videos, films and visual arts/

design/photography portfolios, which provide important information about their artistic abilities.

• Four emails throughout the year, which include the following lists: 1. All applicants - November2. YoungArts Winners sorted by award level - December3. U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts recommendations - February4. U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts Awardees - May

• An edge on early recruitment, since the YASLS includes high school sophomores and juniors, as well as seniors.

“After YoungArts, I wasn’t going to have to pay for college. I had

a whole stack of full scholarship offers pinned to my wall and I

could just flip through them - full scholarship, full scholarship,

full scholarship. And that was because of YoungArts and only

because of YoungArts.”

Kenyon AdamsYoungArts Alumnus (1997, Theater) and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the

Arts. Singer, songwriter and actor currently studying Religion and

the Arts at Yale University

MAX SCHNEIDER2010, Theater

KERRY WASHINGTON

1994, Theater

VANESSA WILLIAMS1981, Theater

CHRIS YOUNG

2003, Voice

DESMOND RICHARDSON1986, Dance

ANDREW RANNELLS

1997, Theater

RACHEL MOORE1982, Dance

VIOLA DAVIS

1983, Theater

ADRIAN GRENIER1994, Theater

ALLEGRA GOODMAN1985, Writing

ROY HARGROVE1988, Jazz

JENNIFER KOH1994, Music

Let the YoungArts Student List Service help you discover

the next Doug Aitken, the next Terence Blanchard, the next Viola Davis,

All YoungArts alumni

DOUG AITKEN1986, Visual Arts

TERENCE BLANCHARD1981, Music

RAÚL ESPARZA1988, Theater

JOSH GROBAN1999, Theater

JENJI KOHAN1987, Writing

NICKI MINAJ2000, Theater

Join us for one of our 2015 programs to see the nation’s best emerging artists in person*

JANUARY 4-11 National YoungArts WeekMiami, Florida

FEBRUARY 17-22 YoungArts Los AngelesLos Angeles, California

MARCH 10-17 YoungArts Miami Miami, Florida

APRIL 27-MAY 3YoungArts New YorkNew York, New York

JUNE 22-23 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the ArtsWashington, D.C.

*Dates are subject to change

YoungArts alumni are among the leading voices in the arts. Here are just some of their recent projects and achievements: Won a 2014 Academy Award• Doug Blush and Judith Hill: Best Documentary Feature,

20 Feet From Stardom• John Ridley, Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave

Nominated for a 2014 Tony Award, including• Phillip Attmore, Kurt Bacher, Jared Grimes, Alphonso Horne,

Justin Prescott, Desmond Richardson, Daniel Watts and Vanessa Williams: After Midnight

• Alysha Deslorieux, Sara King and Sara Sheperd: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

• Yurel Echezarreta, Adam Jacobs and Michael James Scott: Aladdin • Santino Fontana: Act One• Nicholas Westrate: Casa Valentina • Natalie Charle Ellis, Heidi Giberson and Benjamin

Gunderson: Les Miserables

In feature films and on TV, including• Adrian Grenier: Entourage and Sex, Death and Bowling• Anna Gunn: Breaking Bad• Thomas Lennon: Knight of Cups and Monster Trucks• Sarah Paulson: American Horror Story• Wendell Pierce: Elsa & Fred, Bolden! and Runaway Hearts• Andrew Rannells: Girls• Kerry Washington: Scandal

In the country’s top dance companies, including• Sarah Lane, soloist; Rachel Moore, CEO and Gillian

Murphy, principal dancer: American Ballet Theatre• Sarah Daley, Renaldo Gardner and Marcus Jarrell

Willis: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater• Desmond Richardson (co-founder/artistic director),

Clifford Williams and Kelly Sneddon: Complexions Contemporary Ballet

• Meredith Webster: Alonzo King LINES Ballet

In the country’s top orchestras, including• Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chicago

Symphony Orchestra Chorus (14)• The New York Philharmonic (11)

Published current or upcoming books, including• Sam Lipsyte: The Fun Parts• Da’Shawn Mosley: Writer’s Chapbook • Mario Alberto Zambrano: Lotería

Have current or upcoming exhibits, including• Doug Aitken: SFMOMA• Daniel Arsham: Galerie Perrotin, Paris • Hernan Bas: Lehman Maupin, Hong Kong

Named to Time’s 2014 “Most Influential” list• Jenji Kohan as a pioneer • Kerry Washington as an artist

For more information or to subscribe to the YoungArts Student List Service, visit youngarts.org/SLS or call 1.800.970.ARTS