Octavius Cunningham_Digital Arts and Design 1

Digital Imaging
"Bathtime" by Octavius Cunningham

Jon Zacarro_Digital Arts & Design 1

A combination of images that are not usually seen together

digital collage_steve campbell_ digital arts and design classes

In this assignment, Steve Campbell's students created artwork in Photoshop that illustrates the meaning of poetry and literature that they have studied in their English classes.

digital painting

Students in Steve Campbell's Digital Arts 1 are creating "digital paintings" using
photographs and Photoshop.

by Courtney Warren

by Mary Margaret Anderson

Students participate in art show

Hillwood Digital Arts and Design students are participating in an art show at Nashville's Belle Meade United Methodist Church. Here is some of that artwork.

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by Courtney Warren

by Cameron Smart

by Yev Kviatkovsky

by Dakotah Carson

by Phuc Nguyen

by Caroline Knight

by Mary Margaret Anderson




A reception for the student artists was held on March 6.

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digital self portraits

In this assignment, students are creating digital self portraits. There are two parts of this assignment. First, to create a background that represents the student's personality or interests. Students may create the background using traditional art media such as drawing, painting, collage, etc., or they may create the background digitally. Next, they should combine a traditional art self portrait or photographic self portrait with the background.

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Dakotah Carson

Cameron Smart

Skylar Seals

Isiah Hughes

Shanita Cunningham

Destiny McGregor

Hillwood graduate speaks to digital arts and design students

1994 Hillwood graduate Jeff Porter, art director for Lewis Communications, spoke to digital arts and design students as part of Career and Technical Education month celebration activities at Hillwood.

Lewis Communications is a nationally recognized branding and advertising agency with offices in Birmingham, Mobile and Nashville. For over 60 years, Lewis has utilized marketing research, consumer insight and creative craftsmanship to build and grow clients’ brands.

Hillwood graduate Jeff Porter speaks to digital arts and design students enrolled in Joe Burlingame's classes.
Mr. Porter, now a successful art director with Lewis Communications, graduated from Hillwood in 1994.

Mr. Porter stressed the importance of mastering industry software such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, as well as becoming adept at time management and meeting deadlines, all important skills and characteristics that anyone interested in this career should focus on developing while in high school.

Digital Arts and Design students propose school tea room re-design

Digital Arts and Design student Yevgeniy Kviatkovsky led a team of students in his psychology class  in a presentation suggesting the redesign of Hillwood's Topper Tea Room. The Topper Tea Room is operated by CTE students enrolled in Karen Sparks' Culinary Arts classes. Hillwood Academy business partners were in the audience listening to the presentations and proposals.

Yev Kviatkovsky, at podium, facilitates the presentation

Business partners listen to the presentations
along with Hillwood Academies coach Emily Hughes

Culinary Arts students create a menu

Some of Karen Sparks' Culinary Arts students visited Steve Campbell's classroom and created a menu using Adobe Photoshop.

Culinary students begin a menu design using Photoshop

And here is the finished menu