the pencils never in her hand and always
ripped by her mouth
Jessica Jewett does paintings portraits
and vine are I actually started drawing
before I knew how to read and write the
38 year old is quadriplegic she was born
with a rare birth defect that's how I
work and her words intricate rich with
detail I want to see other people take
part in the belief that one person can
make a difference and she's doing just
that with religious project a mission to
memorialize civil war hero general
Joshua Chamberlain he got shot through
the pelvis and it was in such a way that
it debilitated him for the rest of his
life but he was still able to become
governor of Maine and president and
Bowdoin College Chamberlain's 200 year
old home in Maine is in frayed condition
but she's using the power of her
portraits to change that financially I'm
not able to make donations but what I
can do is turn my skills into something
useful for the museum she spent weeks
drawing his home in an hour the sketch
sold on her website prints are for sale
- and every dollar is going to the
museum to help with restoration
this is the second one in the series
that I'm doing for the museum museum
staff or touched she is not letting it
stop her just like Chamberlain did not
let it stop him that's an incredibly
powerful message and a powerful vision
materializing from her heart and her
mouth for Inside Edition com I'm Lisa
boy Dickie
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