National YoungArts Foundation Sets Fall 2014 Programming

Today the National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts), the non-profit that contributes to the cultural vitality of the nation by supporting the artistic development of talented young artists, announced details of their fall series of public programs and performances at its Miami headquarters located at 2100 Biscayne Boulevard. Spanning many artistic disciplines, the programs will offer Miami audiences a chance to experience and support the work of emerging and established artists from across the country and the local Miami community.

"YoungArts is evolving into a distinct multidisciplinary cultural destination," stated Paul T. Lehr, YoungArts President & CEO. "The organization has long specialized in sponsoring creativity as a catalyst for personal transformation and now our programs are expanding to impact not only emerging artists but also our neighborhood."

On Monday, September 8, YoungArts will inaugurate YoungArts Awareness Day, a nationwide initiative to "keep arts alive." Through YoungArts Awareness Day, YoungArts hopes to reinforce the fact that art and artists are a crucial part of American society and to encourage artists everywhere to pursue their passion for the arts. The day will feature pop-up performances and events in Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and New York City and invites artists across the country to create and share their own work, or their artistic experiences at museums and concerts via social media with the tags #keepartsalive, #youngarts and #youngartsawarenessday. The one-day initiative will culminate with a special Joshua Bell Salon on the YoungArts campus, sponsored by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Salon will include a screening of HBO's Joshua Bell: A YoungArts MasterClass and a performance and discussion with the Grammy Award-winning violinist and the YoungArts alumni who participated in the program. For more information about YoungArts Awareness Day please click here.

YoungArts Salons bring together creative art luminaries and offer audiences an opportunity to engage in a dialogue with internationally recognized artists. In addition to the Joshua Bell Salon, YoungArts will welcome American singer-songwriter, record producer, and platinum selling recording artist Ben Folds on Wednesday, October 8, for a Salon including a performance with YoungArts alumni.

On Saturday, October 25, YoungArts will begin a new outdoor, bi-monthly free multidisciplinary performance series, Outside the Box, sponsored by Artplace America. Performances will feature YoungArts alumni, emerging talents and acclaimed artists in a lively mixture of single-genre and multidisciplinary performances. During the first Outside the Box performance, YoungArts alumni including two-time Grammy nominee Dave Eggar; dancer, choreographer and co-founder of Attack Theatre Michelle de la Reza; multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kate Davis; percussionist Jake Goldbas; and dancers Ernest Baker, Andrew Nemr, Brittanie Brown and Allysen Hooks, will present excerpts from their upcoming premiere at Festival Miami.

In the YoungArts Gallery, Junctures: YoungArts Alumnus Hernan Bas '96, curated by Pérez Art Museum Miami Director Thom Collins, will be on view from October 2 to November 14. Junctures offers an intimate look at the early career of Bas, one of Miami's most celebrated artists, who came through the YoungArts program in 1996. The exhibition features approximately 20 works including drawings, works on paper and mixed media. Junctures highlights the artist's early promise and reveals traces of his now well-known romantic and melancholic style.

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