Our 10th annual Young Artist list is here, comprised of 27 names you need to know ahead of 2026.

Abdu Ali Moves Beyond Musical Genres
For Baltimore native Abdu Ali, music is a spiritual practice.
Our fourth annual young artists list wrote itself—made over in the vision of a more inclusive world, one in which comedians, sculptors, photographers, painters, designers and actors are no longer separated by arbitrary boundaries but rather sat next to each other in a creative support system.

For Baltimore native Abdu Ali, music is a spiritual practice.

The artist’s work features dank, abject, magical, alien mysteries. They don’t look like anybody else’s photographs.
Our 10th annual Young Artist list is here, comprised of 27 names you need to know ahead of 2026.
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