
About The Scholar-Artist Awards
Long Island Arts Alliance (LIAA) has developed the Scholar-Artist Awards program to present outstanding high school-age artists to the public in monthly profiles that will appear in Newsday and on Newsday.com. Scholar–Artists are chosen from five disciplines: Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Dance, and Media Arts. Selections are made from a pool of students nominated by Long Island’s public school districts, and from independent and parochial schools. From these nominees, the Scholar-Artist selection committees choose one monthly award winner from Nassau and one from Suffolk for ten consecutive months throughout the school year. In addition to the twenty students selected to receive Awards of Distinction, twenty additional students are selected to receive an Award of Merit at a year-end LIAA recognition event. The Scholar–Artist program is endorsed by the New York State School Music Association, the New York State Art Teachers Association, the Nassau and Suffolk chapters of the New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education, and the Nassau and Suffolk Art Supervisors Associations.


Congratulations to Our 2022-2023 Class of Scholar-Artists and Merit Award Winners!
DANCE
Fern Brazeau
Walt Whitman HS
Sofia Cassara
St. Anthony's HS
Brianna Smith
LIHSA/Long Beach HS
Merit Awards:
Angelica DiLeo
Friends Academy
Hannah Serwan
Harborfields HS
Sydney Smith
North Babylon HS
MEDIA ARTS
Nikhita Kapoor
Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK HS
Giovanna Salvaggio
BOCES - Bixhorn/Hauppauge HS
Benjamin Schlaich
LIHSA/Northport HS
Isabella Yorke
Garden City HS
Merit Awards:
Tara Villalba
Massapequa
MUSIC
Brandon Baade
Hicksville HS
Carolyn Lau
Herricks HS
Jacob Leshnower
Half Hollow Hills HS E
Rachel Lyons
Baldwin HS
Maverick Williams
Great Neck HS N.
Merit Awards:
Airlea Deutscher
Bayport-Blue Point HS
Michael Ho
Longwood HS
Sabrina Guo
Syosset HS
Zekey Huang
Mt. Sinai HS
Aidan Young
Eastport-South Manor HS
THEATER
Annabelle Bryant
Cold Spring Harbor HS
Jake Van Eycken
Commack HS
Rainer Pasca
Bay Shore HS
Annalise Taylor
LIHSA/Massapequa HS
Merit Awards:
Phoebe Albro
Syosset HS
Gracie Greenberg
Oceanside HS
Rebecca Kenjesky
Farmingdale HS
Andrew Kern
Great Neck HS S.
Finn Taich
Centereach HS
VISUAL ARTS
Natalie Hayes
East Rockaway HS
Elif Koch
Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK HS
Hillary Maldonado
Port Washington, Paul D. Schreiber HS
Ashley Park
Half Hollow Hill HS West
Merit Awards:
Natalie Godinez
Centereach HS
Nikki Hirschkind
Bellport HS
Jessica Kruczko
Seaford HS
Sophia Porras
Longwood HS
Kimberly Shrestha
Valley Stream HS N.
Alisha Zhou
Manhasset HS
The LIAA Scholar-Artist Program is presented in cooperation with Newsday.
The LIAA Scholar-Artist program salutes its sponsors: New York Community Bank Foundation and Arts Reach Fund at Long Island Community Foundation. Contact [email protected] for more information about scholarship opportunities.


