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Middle School Art, Literary Magazine Selected One of Country’s Best
Columbia University's Columbia Scholastic Press Association reviewed more than 1,400 submissions from across the country and identified "Intermedia" as one of the best.
An art and literary magazine produced each year at Lewis F. Cole Middle School, Intermedia, was recently as one of the top publications of its kind in the country by Columbia University’s Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), according to middle school art teacher Nina Anderson, one of the school’s Intermedia advisors.
“[Intermedia] was recently submitted to Columbia University for review and critique,” Anderson said, adding that more than CSPA graded more than 1,400 submissions representing all 50 states.
“Fort Lee's publication was selected as one of the top publications in the country, receiving 981 points out of a possible 1,000,” Anderson said. “In addition to being awarded a Gold Medalist Award, the magazine received All Columbian Honors in all three categories: Organization, Content, and Design—a first for Fort Lee.”
According to Anderson, CSPA’s comments about the middle school’s art and literary magazine included the following:
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Your theme, development and concept are better than that of many high school magazines; your words capture the reader and guide him through the sections. Wonderful variety in types of media included. Texture is almost tactile in every flower art, and people sketches are amazingly good, usually very difficult for young artists. What a wonderful magazine with strong visual and verbal appeal for the reader. ‘Intermedia’ has intriguing writing and art which make the reader stop, think, interpret, react; everything a top-notch art/literary magazine should do.
Anderson, the art advisor to the publication, said that she and middle school media specialist Cean Spahn, the literary advisor to Intermedia, are also slated to accept a Crown Award, which Anderson called “the highest award offered by Columbia University's Scholastic Press Association.”
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The two will receive the award at the 88th Spring Convention on March 16 at Columbia University.
“Only four middle school publications throughout the United States will be receiving Crown Awards for their issues,” Anderson said.
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