YoungArts Partners with HBO for Masterclass

Funding for the arts in America may be dismal, but the talent in our high schools isn’t! “MASTERCLASS,” the new HBO series set to premiere Sunday, April 18, presents nine world-class creative artists who are serving as YoungArs Master Teachers, sharing their arts and their life experience with YoungArts students. Each edition of MASTERCLASS highlights the importance of mentorship, allowing emerging young artists to meet and work with legends in the fields where they aspire to become legends themselves.

MASTERCLASS is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, an award-winning documentary filmmaking team whose work has garnered four Oscar nominations, many Emmys and the duPont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming.

Sunday, 4/18 at 5:30pm: Placido Domingo
Sunday, 4/25 at 5pm: Liv Ullmann
Sunday, 5/2 at 5:30pm: Edward Albee
Sunday, 5/9 at 5:45pm: Jacques d'Amboise
Sunday, 5/16 at 3:45pm: Olafur Eliasson
Wednesday, 6/9 at 7pm: Frank Gehry
Sunday, 6/13 at 6:30pm: Bill T. Jones
Friday, 6/18 at 7pm: Michael Tilson Thomas
Sunday, 6/27 at 6:30pm: Julian Schnabel

To see the full schedule, including reruns, go to HBO's site

And, to view the trailer, click here

Everyone is raving about Masterclass! Read the New York Times and Miami Herald’s reviews below:

Masters inspire awe, bright ideas
No Ordinary Teachers in These Schoolrooms

YoungArts Partners with MTV’s Hit Show Taking the Stage

YoungArts has partnered with MTV for the 2011 YoungArts application season. As a part of MTV’s ongoing commitment to the arts, YoungArts will be featured in a promotional call-out about its 2011 application process, that aired after MTV’s hit musical reality series Taking the Stage on Thursday, March 18.

Conceptualized and executive produced by multi-platinum recording artist Nick Lachey (98 Degrees), Taking The Stage – which kicked off its second season on January 28 – is a one-hour musical reality series set at Cincinnati’s School For the Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) that follows some of the nation’s most talented performing arts students as they navigate their path to stardom. SCPA is not the average high school and the enormous pressure to make good grades, demanding rehearsal schedules, changing friendships and first loves, keep the students striving to find balance as the cameras capture the ups and downs of these rising stars. On the March 18 episode, the moment fans have been waiting for arrives as cast member Tyler Nelson travels to Atlanta to audition for the feature film Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming. SCPA has many parallels to the YoungArts program, which for the past 29 years has been dedicated to identifying and supporting the country’s most talented young artists in the literary, performing and visual arts, as they pursue their dreams of a career in the arts.

Click here to watch the YoungArts call-out!

YoungArts Partners with Glee!

Christina DePaul, President and CEO of YoungArts with the cast of GLEE receiving a $25 thousand gift from the FOX Broadcasting Company.


Jane Lynch (who plays Sue Sylvester on GLEE) with Christina DePaul.


Matthew Morrison (who plays Mr. Will Schuester) with Christina DePaul


Matthew Morrison


Christina DePaul and Cory Monteith who plays Finn


Matthew Morrison and Jessalyn Gilsig who play married couple Terri and Will Schuester


Dianna Agron who plays Quinn


Lea Michele who plays Rachel


Kimberly Browning and Christina DePaul


The McKinley High Cheerios

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