Elkhorn Valley Grad Wins American Advertising Award

Ashley Hale, a 2016 graduate of Elkhorn Valley School, recently won a silver award in the 2018 American Advertising Awards for her Nike ad.

Hale won a Nebraska ADDY in the category of Out-of-Home & Ambient Media.​ She is a student at The Creative Center, a college of art and design in Omaha.

Creative Center students won a total of eight awards at this year’s American Advertising Awards, sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. Students entered original creative projects into competitive categories which were judged by professionals in the field. The competition is tiered, with state winners advancing to one of 15 district competitions, and district winners advancing to the national level.

“Our student competition really mirrors the professional competition,” said American Advertising Federation President and CEO James Edmund Datri. “Other major competitions have a stripped-down version, or limit the students to a predetermined case. The American Advertising Awards offers students much more opportunity.”

The Creative Center is a college of art and design in Omaha, Nebraska offering a three-year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design, and a two-year Associate of Occupational Studies degree in Graphic Design. Students attend class Monday through Friday from 8:30 – 3:30 and learn multiple aspects of graphic design. Every student receives a Mac laptop computer and software (to keep!) as a part of the tuition and fees, and gets plenty of chances to use it exploring as many of the computerized visual realms as possible, from branding to web design, from package design to multimedia, and from advertising to illustration.

2018 Nebraska ADDY Winners (8)
Madison Broesder – Sioux Falls New Technology HS (SD); 1 Gold
Monique Foupht – Omaha Concordia HS (NE); 2 Silver
Skye Grady – Sergeant Bluff-Luton HS (NE); 1 Silver
Ashley Hale – Elkhorn Valley Public School (NE); 1 Silver
Serena Hernandez – Conestoga Junior Senior HS (NE); 1 Silver
Zoe Welch – Arlington Public School (NE); 1 Silver
Tristan Winey – Denison HS (IA); 1 Gold