
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 2023-2024 Class of Scholar-Artists
DANCE
Alessandra Hermes-Bevans
LIHSA/Wantagh HS
Mary Marinello
Huntington HS
Electra Scheiner
St. Dominic HS
Priscilla Pan
Syosset HS
Merit Awards:
Sophia DeMeo
Harborfields HS
Faith Fogelman
Commack HS
Averie Masia
Paul D. Schreiber HS
MEDIA ARTS
Alessandra Cesa
Centereach HS
Scout Chen
Syosset HS
Nadia Giovagnoni
Plainview-Old Bethpage/JFK HS
Amira Hussein
Bellport HS
Merit Awards:
Olivia Ikes
Oceanside HS
Jada Joseph
Huntington HS
Shania McCombs
H. Frank Carey HS
Jack Wang
Cold Spring Harbor Jr./Sr. HS
MUSIC
Gabriella D'Orlando
Kellenberg Memorial HS
Peter Hoss
Harborfields HS
Silas Lobenstein
Hauppauge HS
Mizuki Natsu
Great Neck HS N
Merit Awards:
Cody Chelune
Island Trees HS
Meredith Daly
Herricks HS
Loughlin Reid-Cleary
LIHSA/Lynbrook HS
Madeline Shingleton
Amityville Memorial HS
Nadine Torillo
Centereach HS
THEATER
Toni Nemazi
Cold Spring Harbor Jr./Sr. HS / LIHSA
Saadiyah Proctor
North Babylon HS
Mia Grace Robley
Oceanside HS
Leah Romero
Mt. Sinai HS
Merit Awards:
Cooper Arbisi
Massapequa HS
Matthew Tyler Cruz
Sewanhaka HS
Dara Gordon
Commack HS
Laura Lederer
Island Trees HS
VISUAL ARTS
GoEun Choi
Plainview-Old Bethpage/JFK HS
Isabella Chu
New Hyde Park Memorial HS
Daniella Dell'Aquila
Manhasset HS
Becca Hochman
Half Hollow Hills HS E
Merit Awards:
Brian Jaco
Hicksville HS
Alden Kisner
Cold Spring Harbor Jr./Sr. HS
Natalia Monsale
Glen Cove HS
Ruby Zhang
Syosset 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.


