Leodis V. McDaniel High School – Linked Multi Media

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course provides an introduction to digital art with a focus on digital imaging, photography, and filmmaking experimentation. This course introduces skills, techniques, and critique of digital art concepts such as image compositing, appropriation, collage, and remixing. Students will use graphic design, photography, and video techniques to explore their creative voice through the lens of historical and contemporary revolutionary writers and activists. Creative projects include posters to inform and challenge, social media campaigns, screen printing, controversial messaging, music videos, editorial photography, and publication techniques. Students learn the basics of art by preparing original art, digital art, and integrated art concepts. They receive instruction in the following areas; elements of art and principles of design; mechanical and computer design methods; finishing of art products; historical and cultural development of art and the design industry. The course teaches students how to organize ideas, create meaning in their original work, and integrate ideas into new and useful creations, thereby boosting students’ confidence in their artistic abilities