Rochelle News-Leader | RTHS’s Hueramo again wins Congressional Art competition

ROCHELLE — Every single spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide significant college art competitors for every district in the region. The Congressional Artwork Competition is an option to acknowledge and persuade artistic expertise in our youth, reaching each individual corner of the United States. 

Tuesday, Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) introduced the winner of the 2022 Congressional Art Level of competition for the 16th District of Illinois. This 12 months marks the Congressman’s very last yr participating in the Congressional Institute’s Art Competitors, and caps off his best file of using section in just about every 12 months that he served in Congress. This year’s winner is Rochelle Township Superior School’s Marlen Hueramo’s operate entitled “Lunch in the Commons.” 

This piece is a real looking shade pencil illustration of her mates getting lunch in the RTHS cafeteria.  This artwork conveys Marlen’s AP Art inquiry question this yr: How can I capture the superior college expertise from my place of perspective?

Congressman Kinzinger was amazed with Marlen’s “extraordinary skills and capability to seize her matter subject with unbelievable element.” Having said that, this is not the very first time that the Congressman was amazed with Marlen’s artwork.  Marlen received the Congressional Art Award in 2020 as a sophomore for her do the job “El Loro” and been given an honorable point out previous year for her perform “Hacienda Tamales.” RTHS Artwork Office Chair Beth Mock reported of her repeat earn “Marlen is an unbelievable artist, in particular her sense of realism and her ability to capture a moment. She has worked extremely tough to strengthen her competencies and articles and it reveals in her operate.  I am quite very pleased of all of her accomplishments and appear ahead to observing her go on to increase as an artist at the higher education stage.”
Marlen’s get the job done, alongside with other 2022 Congressional Art winners, will hang in the tunnel in between the US Capitol and Congress for a comprehensive year. Together with this honor, Marlen has gained a trip for two to Washington, D.C., this summer months to see her function on display. In 2020, the ceremony was canceled because of to the pandemic.  The Congressman mentioned that he “remains hopeful that as we transfer previous the pandemic, the Congressional Institute will be able to host an in-individual ceremony as the U.S. Capitol Visitor Centre reopens to the general public.”

This honor is the previous of a lot of bestowed upon Marlen of late. At the 37th once-a-year RTHS Artwork Exhibit, Marlen’s colour pencil “Bubbles” won Finest of Exhibit and her portray “Achievement” won the Principal’s Award.  This was soon after taking home to start with location in the I-8 Meeting Competitors for this piece, “Lunch in the Commons.” Additionally, at RTHS Honors Night time Might 2, it was announced that she will keep on on her inventive journey subsequent 12 months at Northern Illinois College, pursuing an art training degree for which she acquired a general performance scholarship as properly as many other accolades. 

“I am very grateful for all of these prospects, but none of it could have been doable without the adore and help from my pals, relatives, and the great folks at RTHS who proceed to inspire me each and every phase of the way,” Hueramo explained.

Fellow art scholar Troy Papke gained the Honorable Mention Congressional Award for his do the job “Mizzle.” Ms, Swofford, 1st yr pictures teacher, claimed of his earn “This photograph and Troy’s ambition significantly reminds me of the popular Jay Maisel quote, ‘The very best camera is the one you have with you’ as he does a excellent job sharing his personal enthusiasm with his friends, and extending his classroom classes to individual perform.” 

Troy spelled out that his photograph was his “adoration for the electrical power that stays in both of those rain and photography.” A junior, Troy is psyched to contend in future year’s competition and “keep the successful heading.” In the meantime, Troy’s perform will be on exhibit in the Congressman’s community place of work for a 12 months.                   

Congressman Kinzinger said of the event, “On behalf of the 16th Congressional District, I’m proud to congratulate Marlen, our runner-up, and our honorable mentions on their accomplishment. How blessed are we to have these kinds of amazing artwork adorn our partitions? Unique thank you to the academics who have mentored our younger artists over the a long time and inspired them to participate in the Congressional Artwork Competitiveness to showcase their expertise. I have extensively relished looking at the artwork from our pupils every single yr and am grateful to have experienced the option to host this function in my formal capacity.”

In reaction to Congressman’s Kinzinger’s statement, Mock stated, “We in the RTHS Art Division are really very pleased of both equally Marlen and Troy.  They are good results tales of the RTHS Art Section and we appear forward to looking at what the future retains for just about every of them. At this time, even so, I would be remiss not to choose this opportunity to thank the Congressman for his continuous aid of the arts and our artwork students.  It has been a privilege to be a element of this occasion with him and his staff members.”