Apr 2025
Isie’s artwork Cherry Blossom, created in her GT Art class, earned her the Essex County Executive 2025 Student Artist Award. Her piece was selected for the 2025 Art Educators of New Jersey (AENJ) Student Art Exhibit, held in the first-floor lobby of the Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Building in Newark from March through April 2025.
Isie was one of six students from the Livingston school district to receive this honor and attended the award ceremony on April 10. The certificate was presented by Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., along with members of AENJ.
The award certificate includes the following:
Art Matters. Keep Creating and Enrich the World. Your Work Made People Smile and Think.
Reported on Tapinto Livingston. Weblink.
Sep 2024
Isabelle has just won the President's Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) - Silver, in recognition to her 52 hours of volunteer service in the year of 2023-2024, primarily through her dance performances in the NY/NJ communities.
Along with the award certificate, she received a letter from the White House, signed by President Joe Biden. The letter begins, "The American story depends not only on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. I congratulate you on taking it upon yourself to contribute to the public good, ..."
Congratulations Isie!