SHS Student's Art Displayed in Washington, D.C.

Photo/Art Credit: Noble Jones via Stoughton Public Schools

The art of a Stoughton High School student has been posted on display in The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities main office in Washington, D.C., Stoughton school officials said.

The featured work is a self portrait by Noble Jones, a senior at Stoughton High School, and is one of 81 pieces of art and The Best Teen Writing of 2014, which is displayed in the Department of Education and the PCAH offices, according to the announcement.

The display is part of ART.WRITE.NOW, a year-long exhibition of national award-winning work from the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

“We are honored to present Noble’s art as an example of the very best creative work by our nation’s emerging young artists,” read a letter to Jones’s art teacher, David Wall. “The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the U.S. Department of Education and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities congratulate you on your success in the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.”

Jones, moreover, also won a Gold Key in the Boston Globe State Art Competition earlier this year, as well as having received a Gold award in the National Division, school officials said.

Jones, whose artist interests range from cartooning to illustration and fine art, was named the Stoughton Public Schools “Artist of the Week” on Feb. 28, 2014, and over the summer attended a summer art intensive workshop in drawing and painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he subsequently received a scholarship to attend the school’s program, officials said.

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