THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Hilarie M. Sheets
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| Sarah Arison, chairwoman of the National YoungArts Foundation, at home with, from left, John Baldessari’s “Big Catch” (2016) and Deborah Roberts’s “The Rope-a-Dope” (2017). Winnie Au for The New York Times |
At Emory University, Sarah Arison, a pre-med student, took a sharp turn and became a double major in business and French with a minor in art history. She also joined the board of the
National YoungArts Foundation based in Miami, where she grew up. Ms. Arison changed course after a serendipitous conversation with a student’s mother about how YoungArts had changed her son’s life. The couple’s homes in New York and Aspen display some 60 works by artists she discovered through these organizations. Many are either by alumni of
YoungArts, including
Hernan Bas,
Nicole Eisenman and
Lee Pivnik, or master teachers the foundation enlisted as mentors to aspiring artists. [
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| The hand-thrown “Urchin Accretion Vase” (2015), by the Haas Brothers, in Ms. Arison’s home. Winnie Au for The New York Times |
