/PRNewswire/ YoungArts is pleased to announce the 2023 YoungArts award winners 702 of the most accomplished young visual, literary and performing artists.
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COLUMBIANA– Ava Wilson of Columbiana, a student at Columbiana High School, has received a 2021 National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) award in theater. Wilson has been recognized at the Merit level, the organization’s third highest honor, for her caliber of artistic achievement and joins 659 of the nation’s most accomplished artists in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
Wilson was selected by an esteemed discipline-specific panel of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process. YoungArts award winners gain access to one of the most comprehensive programs for artists in the United States in which they will have opportunities for financial, creative and professional development support throughout their entire careers. A complete list of the 2021 winners, all 15-18 years old or in grades 10-12, is available online at youngarts.org/winners.