Robert Redford & Robert L. Lynch

Miami Beach, FL – January 14, 2012 – YoungArts honored actor, director, activist and founder of Sundance Institute+ Film Festival Robert Redford with the Arison Award; visual artist and 1986 YoungArts winner Doug Aitken with the Alumni Award; and arts administrator Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, with the YoungArts Leadership Award, at the historic Gusman Center for the Performing Arts and the J.W. Marriott Marquis Hotel at An Affair of the Arts Performance and Gala. The event raised nearly $1,000,000 to support student artists on both a regional and national level, with gala leadership graciously provided by Honorary Gala Chairs Micky and Madeleine Arison, and J.W. “Bill” and Donna Marriott, Jr.  The gala evening brought together more than 800 guests, including prominent artists, community leaders, philanthropists and celebrities to celebrate the 2012 national YoungArts winners and the organization’s legacy of supporting artists at critical junctures in their lives.

Lin Arison & Robert Redford

Bill T. Jones & Robert Redford

Bruce Weber, Debi Mazar, & Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones, Lin Arison, & Debi Mazar

Doug Aitken, Lin Arison, & Robert Lynch

Sarah Arison, Doug Aitken, & Gemma Ponsa Salvadore

Paul Lehr, Doug Aitken, Gemma Ponsa Salvadore, Tony Jones, & Patty Carroll

Rachel & Joseph First

Elizabeth & Facundo Bacardi, & Marc Sheridan

Facundo & Elizabeth Bacardi, Marc & Maribeth Sheridan, & Heather & David Hughes

Bylle Redford & Robert Redford

Bill T. Jones

Donna and J.W. “Bill” Marriott, Jr.

Ana Codina & Robert Barlick

Lauren Pery & Rachel First

Tony Jones & Patty Carroll

Lin Arison & Doug Aitken

Tony Jones & Jim Dubin

Robert L. Lynch & Eduardo Padron

Robert Barlick, Ana Codina, & Jim Dubin

Dianne Brace, Tamara Tweedy, Jacques d’Amboise, & Robert L. Lynch

Bylle Redford, Robert Redford, & Bill T. Jones

Bjorn Amelan, Bylle Redford, Robert Redford, & Bill T. Jones

Lin Arison & Bruce Weber

Bill T. Jones

Doug Aitken

Robert L. Lynch

Lin Arison

Lin Arison & Robert Redford

Robert Redford

Lin Arison & Robert Redford

Bill T. Jones & Robert L. Lynch

Robert Redford & Doug Aitken

Doug Aitken & Bill T. Jones

Doug Aitken, Lin Arison, & Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones & Robert L. Lynch

Paul Lehr, Michael Kaiser, Lin Arison, Robert Redford, Robert L. Lynch, Doug Aitken, & Bill T. Jones

Robert Redford & Kate Davis

Doug Heller and Jane Gilbert

Bill T. Jones & Kayln Chapman Jones

Darlene & Jorge Perez, & Judy Weiser

Eduardo Padron, Lin Arison, Robert Redford, & Bylle Redford

Megan Harmon & Lin Arison

Nan Bush & Bruce Weber

Nick D’Annunzio & Tara Solomon

Tony & Ximena Cho