Scholarships & Grants

Scholarships

Since 2011, Women Sharing Art, Inc. has given scholarship money each year to promising female high school seniors who show a depth and breadth of art medium mastery as well as those who want to continue on with an art education. Women Sharing Art, Inc. chooses from a pool of female artists that have applied to the BAFFA (Bay Area Friends of Fine Arts) show in April of each year through their high school art teachers. Prior to 2015, SBAA (South Bay Art Association) held a similar process in the fall where Women Sharing Art, Inc. would choose recipients from their pool of applicants.

2026: Maria Drewisis, (Longwood High School), Isabella Rodriguez (Sachem East High School), Wanying Yu (Patchogue-Medford High School)
2025: Brianna Carey (Patchogue-Medford High School), Leah Ratto (Sachem East High School), Amber Ynoa (Bellport High School), Ava DiBella (Bellport High School) winner of the Sixth Pat D’Aversa Memorial Scholarship
2024: Vivian Castelli (Longwood High School); Vita Mazza (Bay Shore High School); Kathryn Wood (Bellport High School) and Amira Hussein (Bellport High School) - winner of the Fifth Annual Pat D'Aversa Photography Scholarship
2023: Madeline Day (Bellport High School); Kristina Mancuso (Patchogue-Medford High School); Nikki Hirschkind (Bellport High School) - Pat D'Aversa Photography Scholarship
2022: Deborah An (Commack High School); Maria Bazilevskaya (Longwood High School); Giavanna Zavala (Bayport-Blue Point High School) and Vivienne Love (Bellport High School), winner of the Third Annual Pat D'Aversa Photography Scholarship
2021: Amanda Campbell (Sachem); Fatima Gonzalez (Sachem); Nicolette Surgit (Commack); and Wahca Waste Win McNeil (William Floyd), winner of the Second Annual Pat D'Aversa Photography Scholarship
2020: Ava Deliapi (Bayport-Blue Point); Cristi Sica (William Floyd); Tia Foster-Licalzi (William Floyd); Erika Vallance (Sachem); Gabriella Mancuso (Commack) and Courtney Gerard (South Country), winner of the First Annual Pat D'Aversa Photography Scholarship
2019: BAFFA: Stephanie Shanley - (William Floyd); Caroline Slovensky - (Bellport)
2018: BAFFA: Jennifer Suarez (William Floyd); Oznur Ayyildiz (William Floyd); Sophia Denaro (Sayville); Winnie Lu (Sachem North)
2017: BAFFA: Taylor West (Sachem), Elizabeth Acierno (Sayville) & Jillian DeCamio (Sayville)
2016: BAFFA: Jessica Cipp (Bellport), Paige Liskiewicz (Sayville)
2015: BAFFA: Jamie Clifton (Bellport)
2014: SBAA: Samantha Struzzieri (Smithtown) BAFFA: Daniela Gallego (Brentwood), Casey Leach (Bellport)
2013: SBAA: Elizabeth Galian (Bayport Blue Point), Daniela Gallego (Brentwood) BAFFA: Meagan Mulry (Sayville), Alissa Naer (Sachem East)
2012: SBAA: Lorelai Olk (Sayville), Madison Weisman (Northport) BAFFA: Kristin Sabatino (Sachem)
2011: SBAA: Raissa Oliveira-Silva (Commack) BAFFA: Alicia Blumenthal (Bellport)

Grants

In 2017, Women Sharing Art, Inc. began awarding a total of $1,000 a year in grants to members of its organization to further their artistic exploration and education.