5th Annual USDAN Chess Challenge

MyLITVAre you up for a challenge? Play a game of chess with some passionate and intelligent young adults.

Organic Cooking

Half Hollow Hills PatchCampers at the Usdan Center for Performing Arts get a taste of India from food grown in their own backyard.

Summer Programs for Children Who Bring Their Muses

The New York TimesFOR Michaela Mahon, 15, of Syosset, a yearly summer routine of going to arts camp began back in 2003, when her mother, Joan, got a new job. Facing the prospect of less time at home, Ms. Mahon and her husband, Larry, looked for something meaningful to occupy their daughter’s time. “Usdan fit the bill,” said Ms. Mahon, referring to the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, a not-for-profit day camp in Wheatley Heights. This summer will be Michaela’s ninth attending Usdan, where she has taken courses like painting, ceramics, life drawing and fashion design.

Bethpage Sponsors Budding Musicians

Long Island Business NewsBethpage Federal Credit Union is teaming up with Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts on a new charitable scholarship program.

“Self-Defining Mediums”

Long Island PulseThe art show “Self-Defining Mediums” opened at The Lobby Gallery on Park Avenue in Manhattan. It is composed of freestanding works of various themes by Nassau and Suffolk County students in the Honors Art Intensive program at the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in the Huntington area—a renowned arts day camp.

Usdan Center Receives Multi-Year Jazz Ed. Grant

Musical AmericaUsdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the renowned not-for-profit summer arts day camp whose Jazz Department was founded in 1986 by legendary jazz artist/educator Dr. Billy Taylor, announces a two-year initiative grant provided by the Rauch Foundation’s Founders’ Memorial Program, for a new program titled Sustaining American Jazz: Inspiring Young Artists and Audiences.

Summer camps go green with environmental activities

NewsdayFor seven summers in a row, Anja Kenagy studied oboe at Long Island's premier arts camp, Usdan. By last year, she had mastered Handel's Concerto No. 8 in B-flat and Mozart's Quartet KV 370.

This year, the oboe stayed home. Anja, 13, plunges her hands into dirt and fertilizer, as she plants chicory and Swiss chard in Usdan's new organic garden. Summer camp is going green.

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Promoting the Arts (Minus the Crafts)

The New York Times ...Though Usdan does not consider itself a preprofessional school, it prides itself on top-caliber instruction in music, dance, theater, art, writing and, more recently, chess and nature studies. Classes are given by 100 professional teachers and performers brought in from across the country, aided by a support staff of around 300...

Hitting The High Notes At Usdan

Newsday 'I would give anything to be 12 years old and go to Usdan again," said vocalist Jane Monheit from her hotel room on a tour that takes her as far as Japan and Taiwan. "I liked being able to get this amazing education in the arts in a beautiful place and have something to do in the summer."

Best Ages to Start Nurturing Talent

Newsday Think your child has talent? "Each discipline in the arts really has a different timetable for formal training," says Dale Lewis, executive director of the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, a summer camp in Wheatley Heights with 1,600 students ages 6 to 19 studying music, dance, art, theater and more.