An Artist on The Rise

By: Emily Martin
eam229@txstate.edu

Conner Yarbrough is an Electronic Media Major at Texas State University.  Some of  Yarbrough's biggest accomplishments are working for Fader Magazine in New York and being the assistant music and social media director for KTSW 89.9.

Yarbrough wants to pursue a career as creative editorialist/music journalist in the future. One of the artist's that first impacted Yarbrough's life was Lady Gaga. For him, Lady Gaga was one of the people outside of his family that showed him the value of being different.

"Lady Gaga gave me that acceptance that I needed knowing I lived in a world that didn't always support being different" Says Yarbrough.

In elementary school, Yarbrough wanted to be a marine biologist. For career day, all the students had to dress up but Yarbrough wasn't sure how to dress as a marine biologist. His grandmother had an extra art palette, an apron and an artist hat so he dressed as an artist instead. Yarbrough's grandmother was an artist and influenced Yarbrough's taste for creativity. This incidence is what Yarbrough believes fated him to become an artist.