AXIS Magazine Awarded Gold Crown Award By CSPA
For the second consecutive year, AXIS, the creative arts magazine at North Campus, won a Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Two other Miami Dade College publications—Café Cultura and Miambiance, the literary art magazines at Hialeah and Kendall Campus—earned a Silver Crown award.
The recognitions were announced on March 21 at CSPA’s 101st Annual Spring Convention in New York City. They recognize overall excellence in student print or digital mediums.
This year’s competition featured work produced during the 2023-2024 school year.
“It’s an honor to be awarded such a prestigious award,” said professor Eric Cornish, AXIS’ graphic design advisor. “It’s great to give the students that opportunity to have that on their resume.”
Volume 21 of AXIS included editor-in-chief Bianca Jules, managing editor Richemonde Israel, lead graphic designer Jeanna Chery and cover artist David Davenport.
They created the latest volume, which launched last October. It features a mosaic theme, including poetry, illustrations, photography and film.
Since its launch in 2003, AXIS has been named the top literary arts magazine in their division by the Florida College System Publications Association in 2018, 2019 and 2024, a CSPA Silver Crown Award in 2021 and Gold Crown in 2023. They also have five Magazine Pacemaker Awards from the Associated Collegiate Press (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024).
Miambiance’s Volume 34 explores themes of growth, community and interconnectedness. Its green cover with a black silhouette of a tree symbolizes the way people are linked.
This year’s Silver Crown is the publication’s sixth.
“We are really proud to get it again,” said Megan Carrion, who served as Miambiance’s editor-in-chief for the past three years. “Every year, we set expectations for ourselves. Any sort of win makes us really happy, but knowing that we hit that mark again and again was really satisfying.”
The Kendall Campus literary magazine, which launched in 1989, has won Pacemaker Awards in 2009, 2018 and 2022 and more than 100 FCSPA awards.
Café Cultura’s Volume 17 showcases (Re)evolution, a theme focused on interpersonal and scientific changes.
The edge of each page features drawings that create a stop-motion effect when flipping through the book.
Café Cultura, which launched in 2007, has earned four Crown Awards and nearly 50 FCSPA awards.
Victor Calderin, the publication’s co-advisor and co-founder, said the magazine is a point of pride for the community it serves.
“Hialeah has a lot of talent, a lot of genius inside of it and should not be underestimated,” said Calderin, who was born and raised in the City of Progress.
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