2022 UNIQUELY U RECIPIENTS
After reviewing hundreds of applications received from across Long Island and around New York City, Usdan chose ten young artists to receive full eight-week Uniquely U scholarships in 2022.
Scholarship Recipient - Nuri Agüeros, 1st grade
Scholarship Recipient - Atticus Ahn, 5th grade
Scholarship Recipient - Nicolas Chicvak, 8th grade
Lila Frame, 7th grade
Julia Hamdi, 11th grade
Carter Hollmon, 6th grade
Dean Michaelides, 4th grade
Gabriel Rosenberg, 2nd grade
Riley Shih, 4th grade
George Socolow, 3rd grade
FINALISTS
Jasper Cao | Madelyn Chu | Brianna Cohen | Evan Correnti | Taylor Fernandez | Lyla Groneman | William Herbert | Liam Kong | Sophie Matte | Havana Munsuz | Aanya Rawal | Liahna Sisko | Maeve Tartaro | Imogen Thaler | Audrielle Watson | Mischa Zhang
SEMI-FINALISTS
Carina Anderson | Sebastian Atlas | Claire Bonawandt | Caleigh Camarata | Angelina Fischer | Isabella James | Jaeda Lau | Asabe Rumala | Isabella Serrado | Schyler Soto
HONORABLE MENTION
Emily Abramov | Matthew Acquavella | Tyler Acquavella | Ana Carolina Aguilar Castro | Faria Akter | Isabella Amankwa-Jones | Valentina Atlas | Bianca Awerman | Libby Baigel | Jessie Banilower
Fiona Banks | Austin Bisraithe | Ava Breth | Dumorin Brizard | Vincent Buonocore | Violet Burson | Ava Cahn | Liva Camarata | Raven Canzoneri | Tabatha Caputo | Sofia Caraballo | Micah Carpenter | Benjamin Castillo | Angelica Chan | Angelina Chan | Lauren Chan | Jayleen Chang | Jesse Chang | Anyah Charles | Zorah Charles | Dorian Collymore | Diamond Colon | Sheila Cook | Gianna Costello | Jibril Davis | Addison Deere | Airi Dei | Trevor DeNisco | Arjun Derasari | Dante DeSantis | Jake DeStefano | Isaiah Deverson | Julienne Deverson| Zaver Dhamija | Vivian Dorr | London Easley | Ana’Layai Edwards-Steers | Madison Ericson | Noriana Esguerra | David Ferdinand | Alyssa Fernandez | Gabi Flatto-katz | Alexia Flores | Ashleigh Galyardt | Jordyn Gardney | Leah Gilliar-Smith | Vivienne Gilliar-Smith | Isabella Golden | Marcus Gonzales | Chase Graff | Leilani Grant | Sean Greenwood | Makoto Griffin | Lucia Gubista | Isabella Gurden | Maya Harrison | Josephine Hecker | Ava-Grace Henningham | Johan Elias Heredia | Jamie Huang | William Huang
| Kristian Hurley | Alexander Hyland | Benjamin Hyland | Aleena Iqbal | Michael Johnstone | Tyler Jules | Parker Jun | Erin Jung | Olivia Kahn | Tejas Kalantri | James Kalemi | Lili Kalemi | Hannah Katz | Shira Khoda | Caleb Kim | Isabella Kim | Liz Kim | Daniel Koerner | Timothy Kollappallil | Lauren Kong | Macknezie Konop | Akira Kos | Valentina Lafont | LuLu Langlan | Abigail Langley | Sivan Laniado | Bria Lanthier | Ethan LaRoc | Seth LaRoc | Alice Larsen | Eden Lau | | Grace Li | Valerie Liang | Amy Lim | Julianna Lin | Jack Llewellyn | Michael Llewellyn | Sean Llewellyn | Jessica Lu | Maxim Lupiychuk | Grace Lynch | Julian Madey | Penelope Mansfield | Nico Mastroddi | Hendrix Mayer Hirsch | Jeida Mays | Sophia McDonald | Sabrina Mehta | Isla Blue Moon Miller | Arwa Moid | Savannah Mondragon | Natalia Juleanne Monsale | Ella Moore | Sophia Morales | Emma Morse | Emily Muenzen | Daphne Murer | Chalaylee Myers | Dianne Noh | Mason O’Hare | Nicolette Orlando | Stephanie Painter | Madeline Parente | Madison Park | Evan Parris | Natalie Paulus | Finn Penikas | Sebastian Perez | Matthew Pierre | Ayla Pillich | Arian Pina | Talya Piro | Reese Pokorny | Liam Polani | Naomi Preddie | Charles Qin | Veer Raghunath | Kennedy Ray | Jasmine Reyes | Déa Rodriguez | Destiny Rodriguez | Luca Rodriguez | Hannah Rojas | Teni Rumala | Sophie Rusgo | Will (Vassi) Safos | Natalia Saldarriaga | Lola Sandler | Rue Sandler | William Santamaria | Vivien Neila Satkalmi | Carlo Savo | Julian Schacter | Vanessa Schoenberg | Sophia Sepe | Robert Serrano | Anaruth Sharaf | Anthony Shi | Isabelle Shi | Michael Shih | Shmuel Silver | Markina Simon | Leonita Singah | Maleek Solomon | Jenna Soskin | Anthony Soto | Olive Sposato | Madison Staunton | Luke Struss | Kalin Suwito | Sofie Suwito | Olivia Tang | Kalani Tapia | Devora Tonkonog | Ariel Tripp | Nayla Vargas | Bianca Vicario | Sydney Wang | Zihan Wang | Ariana Washington | Kayla Washington | Jonah White | Randy Widman | Suellie Yang | Nicole Zhang
SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP
Norwood Avenue Elementary School