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Apply To YoungArts

Are you a 15-18 year old visual, literary, design or performing artist?
Apply to YoungArts' national arts competition.
Applications are open until October 13, 2017.

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Why Apply

Receive up to $10,000 in cash awards
Take master classes with accomplished artists
Become eligible for nomination as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts
Receive a lifetime of mentoring and professional support
Achieve national recognition

About YoungArts

What is YoungArts

National YoungArts Week

WORDS FROM YOUNGARTS WINNERS

"YoungArts was really the organization that helped me understand that I could have the courage to be an artist. And through YoungArts Week I actually got a full scholarship to go to Harvard University which really started off my artistic career."

Dave Eggar
1987 Winner in Classical Music
& U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts

"Because of YoungArts, I was awarded a full scholarship to Manhattan School of Music for jazz trumpet performance, I was asked to participate in a master class with one of my biggest heros jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and I felt endeless supported in all musical endeavours."

Benny Benack III
2009 Winner in Jazz

Learn more, Choose a discipline:

Classical Music

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YoungArts Discipline Requirements:

Cinematic Arts: Animation, Documentary, Narrative
Classical Music: Accordion | Composition | Double Bass | Euphonium | French Horn | Guitar | Harp | Harpsichord | Organ | Percussion | Piano | Recorder | Trombone
| Trumpet | Tuba | Viola | Violin | Violoncello | Woodwinds (Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone)
Dance: Ballet | Choreography | Hip Hop | Jazz | Modern/Contemporary | Tap | World Dance Forms
Design: Architecture, Fashion, Graphic, Product
Jazz: Composition | Instrumental | Percussion
Photography: Photography
Theater: Musical, Spoken
Visual: Visual Arts
Voice: Classical | Jazz | Pop | Singer-Songwriter
Writing: Creative Nonfiction | Novel | Play or Script | Poetry | Short Story | Spoken Word