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Sunday, October 4, 2009 9:15 PM CDT
Mattoon student’s creative work earns spot in statewide show
By NATHANIEL WEST,For the JG/T-C
MATTOON
Middle school student Adilson Newcomb has gravitated toward arts and crafts for as long as she can remember.
“I like drawing and stuff,” said the 13-year-old eighth-grader at Mattoon Middle School. “I’ve always been fond of paper and scissors.”
Her creative abilities have taken her to a new artistic level, as Newcomb won a spot in a prestigious traveling statewide exhibit.
Newcomb’s 18- by 24-inch oil pastel painting of a “mannequin” in action will be displayed at the Illinois Art Education Association Student Show as part of the IAEA conference Nov. 5-7 in Lisle. Then the show goes on the road.
Newcomb is the fifth MMS student in five years to have artwork chosen by a jury for the IEA Student Show, according to MMS art teacher Jamie Willis.
“She’s got talent; she’s got it,” Willis said of Newcomb. “She sees it. She’s very teachable (and) she spends a lot of time on attention to detail.”
The daughter of Amy Newcomb of Mattoon, Adilson Newcomb completed the piece last spring as part of an assignment in Willis’ class.
Students were asked to adorn action figure-like wooden mannequins with various props. Most of the joints on the mannequins were adjustable, in order to mimic human movement, so students positioned the figures accordingly and then drew what they saw with chalk on black paper.
After this sketching and shadowing, students then applied oil pastels.
Willis said the project is intended to teach students about human proportions and actions.
Newcomb’s figure wore a necklace and a purse, and depicted a person shopping. “It was very colorful,” she said. “It was kind of just girly and fun.”
As for being selected for the IEA Student Show, she said, “I think it’s pretty awesome. Not very many people get (in). It hasn’t happened to very many people at our school.”
She said her mother “thought it was really exciting.”
Willis said she entered 12 different pieces by MMS students in the competition last spring. About 800 teachers statewide sent student artwork to the IEA jury.
Newcomb attended elementary school in Charleston, where she also had Willis as a teacher in several classes, before moving to Mattoon. Newcomb also has displayed some pieces at the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University.
She has taken several classes outside of school for scrapbooking and soap-making, and she still participates in these activities. She said she “probably” will pursue art more in high school next year.
“I think it’s really fun,” said Newcomb. “You get to express yourself.”
Contact Nathaniel West at nwest@jg-tc.com.
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