Sean Hagan came to Lexington High School in 2004 from the private sector, where he specialized in computer design and animation.

Mr. Hagan graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where he received a BFA in Illustration in 1998, and a Masters in Educational Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2008. He has also studied multimedia design at Harvard University.

Before he graduated college, Mr. Hagan was offered a position as a digital artist at Tom Snyder Productions, an educational software company in Watertown, Massachusetts. At Tom Snyder, Mr. Hagan designed, animated and edited award-winning multimedia CD-ROM products for the elementary and middle school markets.

In 2003 Mr. Hagan started his own visual art consulting business, working with clients such as PBS, Sesame Street, Soup 2 Nuts TV, Scholastic, EduWeb, Floating Pear, Mudbubble, Tom Snyder Productions, 360kid and Nickelodeon. Aside from his digital arts experience, Mr. Hagan has also written and illustrated the children’s book Jonah and the Junkyard Sled.

In 2005 Mr. Hagan created the now popular Computer Animation class at LHS. Students are able to draw on digital Intuos tablets with digital pens, creating superior results over mouse drawn imagery. Thanks to generous grants form the Lexington Educational Foundation (LEF) and the Friends of Lexington Music, Art and Drama Students, Inc. (FOLMADS), students are able to enjoy and use professional, industry standard software and hardware.

Mr. Hagan also teaches Web Design with Mr. Jeff Harris, an exciting class where students learn to build and code websites from scratch. Some examples of the fine work done by students are: Jonas Clarke Middle School, the LEF online auction and the LHS library site.

http://clarke.lexingtonma.org/
http://www.educatedtastes.org/
http://lhs.lexingtonma.org/Library/

Mr. Hagan lives on the South Shore with his wife Jennifer and son Justin.