CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2020 Elementary School Honorable Mention

We received an overwhelming pool of applications from talented Chicago Public Schools students. In addition to this year’s exhibition, we created an Honorable Mention category to spotlight a broader group of young artists.

Want more? Browse this year’s Elementary School exhibition.

Abstract shapes, black on one side, mirror reflection white

Anonymous: Untitled
egyptian

Mason Hines: Untitled
Black and white faces

Anonymous: Untitled
Black and white paper houses

Benjamin Fox: Weekend Quarantine Project
Yellow ceramic mug with smiley face wearing sunglasses. Cobalt blue interior.

Marleny Marquez-Ledesma: Emoji Mug
A colorful painting of flower designs on brown paper

Gretchen Mei: Untitled
pencil portrait

Nayan Sunilkumar: Megan Fox
5 girls portraits on pink blocks background

Brooke Darland: Self-portrait
an s pink and green

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of a beach with trash

Monserrat Cervantes: Seal Habitat
A drawing a figure in all black crouching with a sword.

Josie Kinane: Figure in Black and White
Painting of a tree with pink and purple leaves.

Anusha Banerjee: Pink Purple & Red
Drawing of an ice cream cone.

Anonymous: Ice Cream Cat
Painting of white cat waving

Aurora Brisbois: Untitled
abstract swirly lines

Nina Bonair-Agard: Untitled
A drawing of a blue dog with a colorful sunset and a dolphin in the background.

Gigi Urbon: George Rodriguez inspired Blue Dog
A drawing of purple and blue hearts

Kokomi DeLoney: Untitled
White mug with dog's face with black eyes and nose with a red heart.

Dante Espinoza-Villasenor: Pup Mug
Yellow and purple/blue leaves on a blue background with green and purple dots.

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of a light yellow bird sitting on a branch on a blue and purple background.

Audrey Pillman: Chickadee
Group of objects in red, orange, yell, green, blue, and purple.

Samantha Faris: Musical Art
Photo of a masked person behind a fence

Zariyah Lemon: Untitled
A pencil drawing of an eye with a rainbow iris

Olivia Hein: Eye
Collage of five drawn animals.

[Abrahim] Danja: Animals
One-point perspective drawing of a city

Parker Gunther: My One-Point Perspective City
Marker drawing of 4 people of different races standing in a row beneath a rainbow with the word "diversity" above

Arhianna Melson: Diversity
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled
Abstract drawing of a hand reaching toward the sky

Anonymous: Untitled
painting of a winter portrait

Anonymous: Winter Portrait
A yin yang design with squares of purple, green and blue in background

Noa Kim-Cohen: Untitled
A painting of a large, black heart with zig zag lines against a red background

Jade Garcia: Expressive Death Painting
girl in dress standing in grass

MacKinzee Jones: Nighttime
cut paper snowflakes

Anonymous: Pop Snowflakes
Drawing of red dragon

Daniel Song: Dragon-ex
Three dancing skeletons against a background of red, orange, and yellow lines inspired Keith Haring.

Eddie Lieber: Keith Haring inspired Dancing Skeletons
Two figures holding hands in front of a blue background

Anika Copeland-Richards: City Skies
colored pencil illustration

Naomi Colquitt: Untitled
Perspective drawing of hallway

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing with a girl on the left half and an animal on the right.

Leah Petersen: Hear Me Roar
Girl in Blue dress holding candle, digital art

Aanya Mathew: Burn
Drawing of girl standing in grass with title, "The Easter Bunny Girl"

Katherine Kasparov: The Easter Bunny Girl
andy warhol inspired

Mason Hines: Untitled
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled

Graham Gedey: Portrait
The word hope written in a cursive font and a rainbow gradient.

Anonymous: Hope
A close up drawing of a dragons eye with bright red scales.

Amelio Luke: Dragon’s Eye (Chinese New Year)
4 owl drawings

Daniyah Bonner: The Owl Then; The Owl Now
city block illustration

Anonymous: Untitled
Colorful painting with a heart outlined in the center of the image

Madeline Freund: Heart
light house and seagul

Anonymous: Moon Light House

Saya Tanabe: The Water Land
Painted fruit in a bowl on a blue table

Lailah Smith: Untitled
colored pencil illustartion

Violet Labash: Come Out and Play
colored pencil illustration

Meissa Servoss: Self Portrait
Watercolor of coke cans

Karen Aleman: Untitled
A colorful design with a rainbow peace sign

Chamarie Allen: Untitled
Robot with green rectangle head, brown body with purple arms, three orange buttons

Azul Jimenez: Mixed-Media Robot
Abstract picture with colorful, undulating forms

Oscar Carillo: Lines
chicago fireworks pastel with glitter

Anonymous: Chicago Fireworks
poster design

Roland Parker Zachariah: One Family Shabbat Car Parade

Wyatt Cole: Untitled
Abstract and complex drawing

Lilia Tanabe: Bedlam Between Four Settings

Graham Gedey: Bird
Yellow leaves surrounded by geometric shapes on a blue background

Anonymous: Untitled
Black print of word "Hope" in mirror image

Anonymous: Untitled
Black and white reflection of triangles

Nina Grice: Untitled
Purple and black spider on a purple and black web.

Anonymous: Untitled
Students react to Corona virus-Thank you & Hope

Mayli Nunez: Thank You & Hope
Colored pencil illustration

Alexander Hosking: Brightness over Darkness
blue red yellow T

Soriah Hampton and Anonymous: Untitled
Red and yellow abstract drawing

Huma Ughratdar: The Unmasked Queen

MIA JUAREZ: PEACE

Anonymous: Nighty Night Sunset
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled
An abstract painting with dark colors and cloud-like shapes

Britney Solorzano: Abstract Emotions Sadness to Happiness
moon in night sky

Kayla Melesio: Night in the Galaxy
Oil Pastel with Glitter leaves

Wyatt Gilmore: Glitter Leaves
A white polar bear against a blue background with snowflakes

Arianna Garcia: Perspective Polar Bear
Abstract artwork with pastel colored background and black and white bands filled with different patterns.

Clodagh Veale: Tape Composition
Drawing of cupcake

Katarina Monroe: Untitled
Abstract design of lines and shapes on cut paper.

Anonymous: Untitled
a pair of shoes with vans logo

Khushi Patel: Off The Wall
Self Portrait with complementary colors

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of an orca whale in front of mountains with the sun setting.

Anonymous: Orca
iPad drawing, Print

Terrence Starnes: Sherbet

Anonymous: Autumn Park
Painting of dolphin and other sea creatures

Anonymous: Papel Amate
Colorful abstract drawing with cut paper on black background.

Akeelah White: Untitled
A colorful design of the name Naomi with a tree and purple and blue border

Anonymous: Untitled
Multicolored snowflakes outlined in white on a black background

Maya Warren: Snowflakes
Alternating black and white curving Vs around a black rectangle.

Yvonne Williams: Untitled
Drawing of character with lightning

Ayden Matthews: Untitled
4 foil figures

Charli Lockett: Family Sculpture
A series of pages from a hand-drawn book

Natalie Dickler: Little Book of Pictures
Alebrije sculpture

Audrey Bagnall: Alebrije

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of outdoor scene with mountains

Anonymous: Untitled
girl outside giving peace symbol

Estrella Villagomez: Self-portrait
A drawing of a red fox on top of a painted background of colorful flowers.

Madeleine Kilduff: Fox
Line drawing of a mountains with tree and clouds

Victor Kasparov: Untitled
An artwork of a turtle with blue water on a brown background

Rayna Smith: Untitled

Adelyn Ritsema: Painting
Colored pencil illustration

Chhaya Sharma: Untitled
red monster sculpture

Viana Cervantes: Untitled
One-Point Perspective Landscape illustration

Jessi Hoih: One-Point Perspective Landscape
Abstract drawing of green, red, and black shapes

Anonymous: Untitled
Pencil drawing of fighter jet on white paper

William Gremmels: F-35 Fighter Jet
Painting of a tree with green, yellow, orange, red, and blue leaves

Siddhanth Banerjee: Rainbow Tree
A digital drawing of an original character with mint green hair

Mia Espinoza: Out in the Flesh
Black ceramic cup with red Spiderman symbol on front, white spiderweb pattern, and red drips on purple interior.

Juan Pina: Spiderman Cup

Emileny Bustamante: Untitled
Chicago skyline with fireworks

Anonymous: Fireworks City
A collage with a figure standing in flames

Daisy Rosales: Smoky Fear
Paper sculpture of teal peacock

Anonymous: Untitled
A collage of a little girl in a yellow dress with trees in the background

Laura Perez: Random Dream
Leaf drawing print in ink

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of Mastodon on colorful striped background

Krisha Pandey: Mastodon
Two pastel owls and a heart on butcher paper.

Anonymous: Untitled
Colorful drawing with abstract shapes on black background

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of sunset colors with black silhouette of dandelions and a quote

Isabel Krantz: Untitled
Illustration of mountain at sunset

Ramona Scott: Ramona Scott
Abstract multicolor drawing with cut paper for dimension.

Mya Pickens: Untitled
Colored pencil illustration

Aviva Gladstein: Untitled
Doll in dollhouse

Noemie Charvolin: Untitled

Temilade Adelusi: Polar Bears
A shield with nature-inspired designs and a feather detail

Sophia Migliore: Native Americans Shield
Illustration with fan in cool colors on left and concentric arcs of rectangles in warm colors on the right

Matthew Sanchez: Alma Thomas Engine Turbine
red white squares

Miriam Hernandez-Delgadillo: Shades and Tints
Multicolored drawing of a robot above "Zot" in in a spiky circle

Lucas Lazaris: Zot the Bot
Abstract drawing with yellows, blues, pinks, and reds

Serenity Perry: Untitled
Doll in dollhouse

Anonymous: Untitled
iPad drawing, Print

Malykai Feliciano: Primary Color Portrait
Cool Tint Snowmen painting

Anonymous: Cool Tint Snowmen
Black and white drawing of baseball

Ian Davern: Charcoal Baseball

Avra Raman: Seaglass
Mixed media piece of a sandwich shop logo

Faith Sanders: Faith’s Sanderwiches
Child in teal shirt wearing a hat of white paper with fronds and cut strips covering their face

Atul Shiwakoti: Crazy Jester Hat
E with a rainbow

Ariana Junior: Untitled
Print of 6 blue hearts with LOVE above them

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of a sunset with a line of dark trees

Tilly Jordan: Untitled
A winter scene with green trees on a snowy landscape and a night sky with blues and purples.

Ian Carmody: Winter Trees
Drawing of small water habitats suspended with string

Anonymous: Fireworks City
person drinking from a cup, rainbow background

Yadeliz Rosario: Jae-boem
butterfly and flower

Destiny Clark: Bloom
Self portrait of person in red and blue. Half of picture is red, half is blue.

Montserrat Brizuela: Self-Portrait

Camille Raman: Untitled
Drawing of yellow and purple character

Coriantae Henderson: Untitled
Oil pastel drawing of an ice cream cone

Aubrey Ewing: Pineapple Ice Cream
red dragon in baseball hat

Leonard Pochel: What?!?
house design illustration

Anonymous: House Design
A colorful collage of a dog made out of shapes, inspired by Matisse.

Gaby Jacklin: Matisse inspired Collage
A landscape painting of a winter scene with two hills and two dark trees under a night sky

Caroline Hart: Dreamy Winters
Painting of dead seal with trash

Sofia Aleman: Save the Seals

Nathan Barrera : Carnage & Venom Drawing
robot and person talking

Raylen Reed: Robot-Human
A very colorful artwork full of hearts inspired by Kandinsky

Cecilia Chavez: Kandinsky inspired Heart Wax Resist
train station illustration

Anonymous: Untitled
Self-portrait collage

Justin Rembert: Profile Portrait
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled

Ibunkunoluwa Randle: Still Life
Concentric circles made of cut paper of yell, red, and orange

Vincenzo D’Agostino: The Sun
Drawing of several blocks of houses during winter

Hanfei Chavez: Winter Landscape
Robot collage

Clayton Gupta: My “Robot Me”
Illustration of a cactus in a green and yellow pot surrounded by churros.

Declan Logue: Cactus & Churros
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled
Self-portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled
Colored pencil illustration

Darlene Guzman: A Reason
Rubbing of a leave with yellow, red, orange, green, and blue

Anonymous: Untitled
Abstract shapes of cut paper, black and white are mirror image

Kiara Coleman: Untitled
colored pencil landscape

Desiree Richardson: Name Landscape
Self-Portrait collage

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital painting of fruit in a bowl with a purple background

Kameela Williams: Bowl of Apples Still Life

Olivia Wilmington: Cardinals
Colored pencil illustration

Matthew Hernandez: Solo Creadores
Illinois colored in with rainbows and flowers

Anonymous: Untitled
Origami boat colored brown on a drawing of water with a yellow sun

Agrim Rai: Boat
Mask with white background, embellishments around the face of swirls, spots, and lines in yellows, browns, and reds

Olivia Pacheco: Mexican Inspired Mask
Colorful abstract drawing of shapes and lines.

Keira Kenealy: My feelings during COVID-19
portrait with dog nose

Julian Pintor: Self-portrait
Colored pencil illustration

Grace Mendoza: In Your Eyes
colored pencil illustration

Sophie Yanny-Tillar: Colorful Creativity
hands

Rihanna Baines: We’re in This Together
Pencil drawing of girl with long green hair and a crown sticking out her tongue

Mariyamawit Debebe: This is how I imagine Coronavirus as a person
Painting of a man in a trench coat under the phrase Porco Rosso

Eve Oppenheim: Porco Rosso Cover
Watercolor with Sharpie

Ochun Palacio: Dance
Painting of a baseball player standing on grass, holding a bat under the sun.

Ahtziry Garza: Untitled
Tempera Painting with Calligraphy

Anonymous: Chinese Panda Banner
A colorful, abstract painting with splattered colors.

Andrea Rodriguez: Expressive Painting Sadness to Happiness
pencil drawing with a cube in the middle

Kevin Wilson: Unfolding Dimensions
White house with yellow, corrugated cardboard roof. Grass yard with yellow popsicle stick fence.

Arianna Renteria: Home Sweet Home
4 seperate drwing in one pic

Anonymous: Positive Message Doodle
Tempera Dot Painting

Elizabeth Hale: My Snowy Day
Abstract drawing with cut paper

Jachelle Benjamin: Untitled
Drawing of single Adidas shoe with dimensions written above.

Elise Duran-Dixon: Untitled
Geometric black and white shapes as mirror images

Emerson Villalobos: Untitled
abtraction of name Max bright colors black lines

Anonymous: Untitled
Illustration with text thanking grocery store workers, on a white background with pattern edge.

Maximilian Bardy: Untitled
sun rise

Jaylynn Aguilar: Sunset
Self portrait with complementary colors

Anonymous: Untitled
girl in black shirt colorful patterned back ground

Jessica Sarmina: Self-portrait
ipad drawing, print

Malykai Feliciano: The Magical Bird
A colorful Chinese new year lion

Chloe Jones: Chinese New Year Dancing Lion
A colorful design with lines that spell out LOVE

Anonymous: Robert Indiana inspired Love Lines
Ink print of leaves design

Anonymous: Untitled
colored pencil illustration

Mariana Alvarez: Untitled
Drawing of outdoor skateboarding scene

Anonymous: Untitled
Abstract drawing with dimensions from cut paper.

Fannie Catherine: Untitled
Drawing of dolphins jumping over water in front of sunset

Gabriella Rodriguez: Untitled
Small, blue clay bowl

Mina Miranda: Blue Bowl
red and blue flower

Madison Melo: Howler
Three views of a cowboy boot with a family tree on the side

Alondra Zavala: Family Tree Boot
green and purple land scape

Anonymous: Untitled
An abstract painting made of colorful dashes in a circular design.

Anonymous: Alma Thomas inspired Line Design
R rainbow background

Dayia Johnson, Anonymous, and Cynia Wingba: Untitled
ms uni

Jayla Davis: Ms. Uni
Pencil drawing of Hogwarts castle

Benjamin Lacy: Hogwarts
Hot air balloons in the sky

Salma El Bissati: This is my hot air balloon race
Line drawing of dragon on white paper

Gleb Makarov: The Mighty Dragon
Watercolor and Marker

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of girl on colorful striped background

Kayla Zayas: By The Sea
bridge with orange sky

Paul Vazquez: Scream (Afternoon Version)
heartbeat illustration

Chloe Hill: Heartbeat
colored pencil snowmen illustration

Yabena Sunuwar: Worm’s Eye Snowmen
Illustration of 2 flowers in blues and whites

Anonymous: Dark Side of Flowers
Collage with hand, heart, flowers, and people

Anonymous: Untitled
Love inside a heart printed 6 times in black in multiple orientations

Anonymous: Untitled
colored pencil illustration

Trinity McGruder: Where There is a Dismal Present, Several Futures Await
Cardboard lion sculpture

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of yellow sunflowers in a pot

Aadian Davis-Pollard: Still Life Flowers
3 mountain peaks

Anonymous: Untitled
iPad drawing, Print

Lorenzo Ochoa: Funny Face
girl with yellow shirt

Kaylan Sims: Crazy for Myself
3 seperate figure drawings

Jo’Quan Keys: Dudes, Representation
Drawing of the back of a person with a long pink braid and animal on her shoulder

Flora Greene: Untitled
supreme headband

Alanna Kubba: Bad Guy
A chalk drawing of a haunted house with a large orange moon and a dark blue sky.

Alexandra Ruhnke: Chalk Pastel Haunted House
Marker drawing of characters fighting with red and blue lights

Ali Hekmati: Untitled
earth with a cute face

Isabella Gamero: Clean Earth
Colored pencil illustration

George Dravillas: Untitled
Perspective drawing of hallway

Anonymous: Untitled
mixed media collage self-portrait

Anonymous: I Am Jurnee
girls head on earth

Tijuana Densmore: Care for the World
Cartoon with three main sections containing people helping each other.

Anonymous: Helping Hands
bridge with stary sky

Paul Vazquez: Scream (Starry Night Version)
Painting of white animal on green background

Rose Brisbois: Untitled
Black and white shapes

Anonymous: Untitled
sphere and stripes

William Rogers: Falling Sphere
house with color flowers

Melinda Alvarado: My Dream House
Drawing of several robed skeletons

Chloe Tagalicud: Untitled
A drawing with five characters hanging upside down over the word "vitality".

Drew Hogan: Vitality
2 silhouettes on gray and white background

Anonymous: A look into self
The word "Nat" drawn in rainbow colors

Natalie Romo: Abstract Nat
house design illustration

Anonymous: House Design
Illustration of eyes and leaves with actual leaves around the outer edge

Anonymous: Like a person on the woods surrounded by leaves all around
chalk pastel leaves

Anonymous: Fall Leaves
R rainbow background

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital painting of a tree bank under a big cloud.

Deniana Clemente: Fenced In
colored pencil illustration

Nate Anleu: El Flama
alma thomas inspired painting

Leianne Obligado: Alma Thomas Inspired Painting
An artwork of two white sheep on green hills with a blue sky.

Anonymous: Tint and Shade Sheep
Colored pencil illustration

Adel Pierce: Tartar Sauce “The Movie”
Painting of purple flowers in a pink pot

Curtis Conner: Untitled
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