CL Young (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Idaho.
Young works with location, text, objects, performance, installation, sound, space, and the body to explore how time, place, and attention shape experience and to nurture spaces where the material and nonmaterial meet.
The author of multiple chapbooks, CL’s work has appeared in public and performance spaces in Boise, Garden City, Milwaukee, Oakland, Portland, OR, and Seattle, as well as in publications from Annulet, Entropy, Fonograf Editions, Lana Turner, Poetry Northwest, The Poetry Project, The Scofield, Sixth Finch, The Volta, and others.
Young was awarded a Literature Fellowship by the Idaho Commission on the Arts in 2020 and holds an MFA in poetry from Colorado State University. They have received support and time from Vermont Studio Center, Naropa University, James Castle House, the Alexa Rose Foundation, Surel‘s Place, The Atlanta School, and The Common Well.
CL also facilitates TUNING, a somatic, intuitive, creative, & spatial modality developed to support individuals and groups.
Young works with location, text, objects, performance, installation, sound, space, and the body to explore how time, place, and attention shape experience and to nurture spaces where the material and nonmaterial meet.
The author of multiple chapbooks, CL’s work has appeared in public and performance spaces in Boise, Garden City, Milwaukee, Oakland, Portland, OR, and Seattle, as well as in publications from Annulet, Entropy, Fonograf Editions, Lana Turner, Poetry Northwest, The Poetry Project, The Scofield, Sixth Finch, The Volta, and others.
Young was awarded a Literature Fellowship by the Idaho Commission on the Arts in 2020 and holds an MFA in poetry from Colorado State University. They have received support and time from Vermont Studio Center, Naropa University, James Castle House, the Alexa Rose Foundation, Surel‘s Place, The Atlanta School, and The Common Well.
CL also facilitates TUNING, a somatic, intuitive, creative, & spatial modality developed to support individuals and groups.