On the Avenue: Avenue-inspired student artwork wins Adelphi top contest prize!
It’s a masterpiece!
Students and staff at Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn recently learned that the academy’s art journal, aptly titled The Adelphian, had been selected as a first prize winner in the American Scholastic Press Association’s Annual Magazine Contest for 2021. Both the Winter 2021 and Summer 2021 editions — featuring artwork as well as photography and creative writing from some of Adelphi’s most talented students and staff — were submitted to the contest this past October and impressed a panel of judges enough to receive top prize in their category.
Interestingly, each of the prize-winning editions featured submissions inspired by events taking place “on the avenue” in Bay Ridge, school officials said. The Winter 2021 edition included a spread of paintings by Adelphian artists that adorned the windows of local businesses as part of the Bay Ridge Community Council’s Annual Halloween Art Window Painting Contest. The Summer 2021 edition included some of Adelphi’s submissions to the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue BID’s National Photography Month Photo Contest, of which Class of 2022 member Isabelle Zak was declared the winner.