Two seniors at Great Neck North High School have been honored through the 2025 Long Island Scholar Artist Awards program, sponsored by the Long Island Arts Alliance (LIAA).
Su Qi Tian is a Merit Award recipient for Music, and Katherine Zhao is a Merit Award winner for Visual Arts.
Each year, the Long Island Arts Alliance honors a select group of exceptionally accomplished high school seniors for their outstanding achievements across five disciplines: Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Dance and Media Arts.
High lead art teacher Joseph Giacalone (Photo courtesy of the Great Neck Public Schools)
Selections are made from a pool of students nominated by Long Island’s public school districts and independent and parochial schools.
From these nominees, the Scholar-Artist selection committees choose twenty Award of Distinction recipients and twenty Award of Merit recipients. All honorees are recognized at a year-end LIAA recognition event.
The LIAA 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.
