Students enjoyed an art-filled Spring day at the Speed Art Museum while learning about amazing female artists in the Age of Impressionism. This exhibit broadly surveyed a key chapter in art history in which an international group of female artists overcame gender-based restrictions to make remarkable creative strides. Following the exhibit tour, students had a blast as they created their own hands-on art in ArtSparks!
PRP Design students have been working very hard to earn Industry recognized Adobe Certifications to add to their career readiness skills.
An Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) credential certifies that individuals have the entry-level skills to plan, design, build and maintain effective communications using different forms of digital media. This Adobe certification demonstrates entry-level skills with Adobe digital media software, and gives them valid credentials for employment.
Congratulations to the students who passed the rigorous Adobe ACA exam this Spring!
JCPS Ideafest is an event students look forward to each year. It’s interactive, engaging, peer to peer and inspires creativity. This year’s theme centered around the creative process itself! Thank you JCPS for making the event possible, and for free tickets, providing food and transportation. It was a great day!
Design students are excited and prepared for competition today at Doss High School in the regional Skills USA contests in Photography and Graphic Design. Congratulations to Tiffany Hull and Hevin Ramsey, who were finalists. They will advance to the State Skills USA competition.
Congrats to Ms. Cheryl Wilhoit and PRP Visual Art Students who swept this year’s Horsing Around with Art Contest, held at the Ky. Derby Museum last night. Students won 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place and 2 Honorable Mentions. Way to go Panthers!
Congratulations to the following Visual Art and Graphic Design students who won awards in this year’s Scholastic Art Regionals Competition!
LVA Emerging Artist Award:
Skylar Hutchison
Gold Key Winners:
Collin Alexander / Sculpture
Alana Bailey / Ceramics
Katharine Barnett / Ceramics
Skylar Hutchison / Design
Nathan Thompson / Photography
Gold Key winners’ artwork will be on display at KMAC Museum Gallery through the month February and will go on to compete in the national Scholastic Art Competition.
Silver Key Winners:
Collin Alexander / 2 Silver Keys in Sculpture
Hailie Cannon / Design
Kaelin Hurt / Ceramics
Skylar Hutchison / Design
Riplee Marcum / Ceramics
Hailey Snodgrass / Ceramics
Celeste Stokes / Printmaking
Nathan Thompson / Photography
Brianna Wilson / Ceramics
Alyson Young / Digital Art
Honorable Mention Winners:
Collin Alexander / Sculpture
Luis Bustamante / 2 Honorable Mentions/Digital Art
Alexandria Clopton / Digital Art
Pearria Lawson / Ceramics
Madison Loney / Ceramics
Mason Pollard / Sculpture
Scott Reece / Ceramics
Macey Richardson / Drawing & Illustration
Noah Salmon / Photography
Nathan Thompson / 3 Honorable Mentions/Photography
Silver Key and Honorable Mention winners will be on view at UofL’s Hite Art Institute Gallery through March 2:
Lady Panthers garnered First Place with their campaign entitled 4 Years 4 You. (L to R) Itzel Bernabe, Kaitlyn Sutton, Courtney Goff and Gracie Allgood.
A record number of design students participated in this year’s Louisville Advertising Federation High School Marketing Challenge! Altogether, PRP had three teams: The Lady Panthers, PRP Learn, and PRP Creative. The topic for the challenge focused on the importance of a four-year college degree. Spalding University was the sponsor and “client” for the challenge. Students were tasked with creating ad campaigns which included bus shelters, radio spots, blogs, videos and social media plans.
Each team created presentations that showcased their research, multifaceted creative approaches, and a written rationale for their work and presented their campaigns to a panel of judges from Louisville’s advertising community. The challenge was open to all Louisville area public and parochial high schools.
PRP excelled this year, and I couldn’t be more proud of these students! Great job, team!!!
First Place: Pleasure Ridge Park
“4 Years 4 You”
Team: Lady Panthers
Itzel Bernabe, Kaitlyn Sutton, Courtney Goff and Gracie Allgood
Judges’ comments – The message was well thought out with a great digital presence. The logo was great and really stood out. Good writing skills. The team presentation was well structured and executed.
Third Place: Pleasure Ridge Park
“Light of Learning”
Team: PRP Learn
Justin Bunch, Brooklyn Burnett, Hailee Cannon, William Mason, and Chase Slack
Judges’ comments – Good in-depth research and application. Great use of non-traditional marketing tactics and outdoor creative. Nice job with branding the campaign. Well written radio spot.
Special Award/Best Story Tellers: Pleasure Ridge Park
“Education is Key”
Team: PRP Creative
Curtis Brockman, Patrick Cleary, Logan Childress, Jebediah Lee, Sean Gelhausen,
Kyle Morrison
Judges’ comments – Loved the team’s passion and personal insight on the topic.
PRP Design students Jacey Lore, Alia Johnson and Alec Montgomery presented work created for PRP’s Teens Against Tobacco Campaign at WKU in November, as part of the KY Rural Health Conference. The invitation to present was quite an honor, as they were the only high school group invited to present at this conference. Work for the campaign started last year and has continued this school year. Students created social media posts, a series of videos and posters to raise awareness of the dangers of teen tobacco use for client, Norton Children’s Hospital. Special thanks to Phill Bohannon for chaperoning the group and providing transportation and to Jenita Lyons of Norton Healthcare for her guidance on the project.
IdeaFest brings students face to face with global thinkers and innovators. Students attended this year’s event at Kentucky Center for the Arts, where they listened to presentations: The Age of Disruption by Emily Dreyfuss from WIRED Magazine and Polarization: A View from the Front Lines, with CNN’s political analyst John King. Emily Dreyfuss is a Senior Writer at WIRED, one of the top 10 technology news websites in the world. In her role at WIRED, Dreyfuss covers the intersection of technology and society, and is in a unique position to monitor trends, innovations and factors that influence the future. John King is an American news anchor. He is CNN’s chief national correspondent, based in Washington, DC, and is anchor of its roundtable political discussion program Inside Politics. King is the former anchor of State of the Union and has covered the past seven presidential elections.
Special thanks to IF and JCPS for making our field trip to this event possible.
Photography/design students provided photos at PRPs Homecoming Dance as part of our annual photo booth
fundraiser.
PRP Visual Art + Design / Ms. Webb 