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Long Island Scholar Artist
 Hicksville High School senior Jae Lee has been named one of two Long Island Scholar-Artists for the month of December 2007. Jae was selected based on dedication to his craft, his artistic presentation, grade point average, and outstanding letters of reference. As a Scholar-Artist, Jae will be featured in Newsday and honored with an award at the end-of-year reception at the Tilles Center, C.W. Post, Long Island University.
The Scholar-Artist program was established by school and community arts teachers and administrators and is sponsored by the Long Island Arts Alliance, with support from the Roslyn Savings Foundation. Two students are selected for each month to be recognized for their achievements in the areas music, fine arts, dance, theater, and media arts.
Jae recently received an Honorable Mention award for work which was selected for the 2007 Long Island's Best Student Exhibition at the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington; was one of 135 art students to be selected to attend the 2007 New York State Summer School of the Arts; was part of the second place Drawing Team at the 2007 New York Sate Olympics of the Visual Arts in Saratoga Springs, and had his Memory Project portrait selected as one of 50 pieces chosen from over 2,000 submissions to tour the United States raising awareness of orphaned children throughout the world. This portrait and Jae's letter to the child he painted can be viewed online at the Memory Project's website: www.thememoryproject.org. Follow the links: image gallery; finished portraits; portrait #20 to see his sensitive rendering of "Guadalupe".
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