Author Archives: YANJEP

Young Audiences and Target® Team Up to Offer Arts Education Grants for Local Schools Pre-K through High School!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Date: September 13, 2013 For a fourth year, Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA) and retail giant Target are teaming up to offer Arts Education Grants of up to $10,000 each, to selected New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania schools.  At a time when schools throughout the region are suffering from […]

Young Audiences to Hold Free Artist Showcases on September 24th, 25th & October 1st in NJ & PA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: August 26, 2013 Young Audiences of New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania, (YA) the region’s largest provider of arts education programs for grades preK-12, is holding free artist showcases from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on September 24th at St. Rose of Lima Academy in Short Hills, NJ, September 25th at Brooks […]

Calling All Teen Artists! EACH, Young Audiences Immersive Teen Arts Program Now Accepting Applications

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: PRINCETON, NJ; August 21, 2013 Young Audiences of New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania, the region’s leading arts-in-education organization, is now accepting applications for the Emerging Artists Creativity Hub (EACH).  EACH is a teen arts program designed specifically for young artists, ages 13-17, who are interested and gifted in the arts.  It is […]

Bringing More Arts to More Children Young Audiences Hires Two New Staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Date: August 20, 2013 Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA) is proud to announce and welcome two new full-time staff members to their growing organization.  Michelle L. Marigliano joined the YA staff as Special Projects Coordinator and Christopher Parks has come on board as Producing Director. Marigliano, a long-time YA […]

A TIME TO REFLECT – Helping students find their unique voice through pictures and words

August 8, 2013, By Will Ortega, Lead Teaching Artist and Professional Photographer for the Ennis Beley Photography Project Two years have passed since the last time the Ennis Beley Photography Project served the children of Newark.  The program returned to the Marion P. Thomas Charter School this summer, where I once again had the privilege […]

Princeton and Pennington residents join Young Audience’s board

By: Mercerspace on July 31, 2013 Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania named three new trustees from Princeton, Pennington and Mount Laurel. Luz Cárdenas Virilli, Robert Keck and Sharon White were welcomed to the Board of Trustees during its annual June meeting. Robert Keck, who lives in Pennington, served on the Board of Trustees […]

Young Audiences Welcomes Three Local Arts Supporters to Board

PRINCETON, NJ; July 29, 2013 — Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA) has named Luz Cárdenas Virilli, Robert Keck and Sharon White to it’s Board of Trustees. The three were welcomed to the 30-member board at its June annual board meeting. “We are delighted that Luz Cárdenas Virilli, Robert Keck and Sharon White […]

NJ State Council on the Arts Awards More Than 200 Grants

By Madeline Orton, NJ Today, on July 29 2013 It may be the middle of summer, but it’s an important week for non-profit arts organizations. Leaders from the state’s theaters, dance companies, orchestras, museums and more, gathered in Trenton for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA) Annual Meeting to await distribution of […]

Young photographers show work at D&R Greenway gallery

By the Trenton Times on July 26, 2013 The D&R Greenway Land Trust is hosting the Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania’s 2013 Ennis Beley Photography exhibition, “The Cartography of Self,” through Aug, 8 in its Olivia Rainbow Student Gallery. Each year, Trenton-area students create works through this Young Audiences project, the Lawrenceville […]

Arts council grants $1.5 million to Mercer County arts organizations

By Kelly Johnson, The Trenton Times, on July 25, 2013 The State Council on the Arts is awarding almost $1.5 million in grants to art organizations and projects in Mercer County, part of $15.6 million in grants it is giving statewide, according to a press release today. The Council is a division of the Department […]