CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2021 Elementary School Exhibition

The works in this gallery were all created by Chicago Public Schools students. They celebrate art, design, growth, and learning. Join us in exploring the work of some of Chicago’s best young artists and designers! Want more? Browse Honorable Mention projects or High School exhibition.

Ka’miyah Green: Molly Costello Dreams
A painting of a girl with red hair, a white necklace and a blue shirt

Angelina Berg: Self Portrait
Drawing of a bunny on a blanket

Sasha Preuss: Drawing of Bianca
A red, squat, glass blown vessel

Anonymous: Brick Red with White Chunk Black Lip Squat Jug

Anonymous: Muraya

Emerson Conway: Untitled
Drawing of a girl in a checkered turtleneck sweater standing in her room

Jazmin Gamez: Self-Portrait 2021
Black and white geometric drawing

Anonymous: Untitled

Terry White: Untitled, 2020
A drawing of a small white owl with a snowy, blue background.

Anonymous: Owl in the Snow
perspective line drawing of building

Anonymous: Building in 2 point perspective
Painting of a rabbit with a red background

Sasha Preuss: Bianca
Fox girl with a tail in between two trees

Anonymous: Fern

Anonymous: Untitled
Abstract painting of a bird and flowers

Zoey Faisal: Untitled
Marker drawing of a lake with trees and a sunset in the background

Owen Gary: The Crack of Night
Collage of shapes on a blue background

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of cherry blossom branch against a red and pink sky

Alexandra Watkins: Cherry Blossoms
Drawing of people at the farm portion at the zoo

Matthew Chung: Thankful for Lincoln Park Zoo
Painting of a dog stuffed animal with a brown background

Sasha Preuss: My best friend Biscuit
Drawing of a person surrounded by cats in front of a pyramid

Anonymous: Frida
Women from different cultures holding hands

Journi Easter: Women of The World

Isabella Yan: Pops of James Baldwin
A drawing of two Harry Potter characters

Gianna McBride: Harry and Cho

Anonymous: Overcome the Obstacles!
A drawing of 4 fictional creatures

Anonymous: Untitled
An elephant head made out of clay

Andrew Lu: Elephant
Detailed and labeled anatomical drawing of a human heart

Avani Bang: The Human Heart

Anonymous: Tucgar #1 of two
A painting of a peacock

Siena Leinwand: The Peacock

Maja Nagi: Untitled
A drawing of a red cardinal on a branch

Solome Abebe: Cardinal
The outline of a person with an afro with the words black lives matter and names written in red inside the persons body

Mariah Urbina: Black Lives Matter
Drawing of a green dragon

Daniel Song: Korean Dragon

Anonymous: Untitled
Markers arranged to spell "HOME"

Victoria Thomas: Untitled
Drawing with rainbows that says "Kill them NO Save Them YES, by: Zia"

Anonymous: Untitled

Liliana Torres: Random Animation
Painting of a hand with "more than a vote" written on it

Anonymous: Black Lives Matter.
Illustration of an Eagle head with a yellow beak

Avery Geyer: The Eagle
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Logan Briody: Baldi

Coen Schaller: Chicago Living
Digital yin and yang drawing

Kaylee Wellington: “My Sun & Moon Yin Yang”
Young man standing in front of a door on a red carpet

Jayden Patel: Untitled
Abstract drawing in blue marker

Anonymous: Untitled
Mosaic of a woman's back

Genevive Jerozal: Mosaic

Jasmine Martinez: The Illusion of Storms
Digital drawing of soldier witt sunglasses, and gold energy around their forearms.

Langitoska Karanaya Sjarif: My illustration of a hero, Gatot Kaca

Anonymous: White Brick
Drawing of a girl with red skin and blue hair

Sophie Yanny-Tillar: Thoughts
Drawing of snakes

Anonymous: Untitled
A marker drawing of a character with a green shirt and blue eyes.

Anonymous: Sam the Cat
Colorful abstract drawing of a triceratops

Francis Miller: Triceratops
Drawing of two girls standing next to one another

Lucia Solares: Friends

Esmeralda Cervantes: Roses

Maksym Przybyl: Untitled
Drawing of a super hero with cat ears

Adam Milic: Black Panther
Black and white drawing with a tree and pier

Isabella Martinez: Untitled

Anonymous: I am thinking about something.
Drawing of a family

Anonymous: ShapeHeads

Hannah Boegen-Stork: Rainbows
Drawing of a girl jumping into water, city in the background

Emmy Bassik: The City Leap

Yueling Qian: Forest Fairy
Drawing of an imaginary animal with wings and patterns

Vikram Konkimalla: Imaginary Animal in an imaginary land

Anonymous: Toucan on business Trip to the Tropics
Drawing of a snake

Noah Solis-Kozlowski: Untitled
Ink drawing of a boy's face wearing a mask - words for value

Joaqin Gigante: Mocrography portrait

Anonymous: Sugar Skull
Painting of yellow and pink ice cream in a colorful cup.

Helen Zheng: Untitled
Drawing of an orange sports car in front of 2 green trees and a yellow sun.

Levon Nigg: Race Car Super Center
Digital drawin gof a girl with a ceiling fan above her

Jadian Esparza-Lagahit: Waiting

Anonymous: Bakugo

Elizabeth Holub: Face
Drawing of a dinosaur

Anonymous: Diplodocus
Ink drawing of a girl crying

Anonymous: Sketch in Pencil
Drawing with red and yellow tones and a butterfly

Heidy Martinez: In Quite There Is No Peace
Drawing of a woman with blue hair wearing a yellow dress with her hands on her hips.

Akiya Killins: Untitled
An ink drawing of lots of bees and some buildings

Naomi Cobbs: Untitled
drawing of person with white hair wearing an olive green jacket, sipping from a coffee cup.

Brette Baker: Untitled
Abstract drawing of two eyes made of flowers and other things

Raila Gonzales: Untitled

Cole Ham: Marty DiGiorno

Allison Martineau: Miss Scary

Ariana Rendon: Pay It No Mind!
Digital drawing of an eye with eyeliner and a cat pupil

Diana Perez: Portrait of a Girl
Crayon drawing of a butterfly

Anonymous: The Hungry, Hungry Butterfly

Anonymous: Luck
Portrait assembled with a variety of materials including paper, yarn, and pencils.

Kana R. Hutchens: Complicit

Ana Beckman: Fencer
marker drawing of an alebrije

Anonymous: Alebrije
Silhouette of elephant against sunset.

Anonymous: The Elephant – Gwendolyn
Abstract drawing with circles, lines, and color

Andrew Lockhart: Andrew’s Study of Senecio, By Paul Klee
Owl puppet with googley eyes and fuzz balls

Anonymous: Owl in Disguise
sculpture of 2 people made of pipe cleaners and paper

Anonymous: Straw Person
A crowd of people standing in front of a hand controlling a television through puppet strings

Jacob Barcenas: Untitled
A pencil drawing of a hibiscus flower

Jovanni Carteno: Hibiscus
Drawing of a skull and teddy bear

Anonymous: My Childhood Comfort Bear
Sketchbook with pine tree drawn in pencil with orange streak behind it

Anonymous: Arctic Shine
Drawing of a woman with wings standing next to a child

Anonymous: Untitled
Illustration of a skyline

Anonymous: Untitled
Colorful ceramic taco/fish

Anonymous: David’s Fish
A drawing of a blue creature on the ground with a pink tree, green bush, and sun.

Anonymous: Creature

Ayesha Khan: Quarantine
UFO with a colorful beam over a black and white drawing

Henry Everett: Untitled

Mirabelle Royer: Sunny Umbrella
A drawing of a bed design made to look like a horse

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a turtle underwater, in colored pencil

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of a grayscale girl with bright green patterned background

Anonymous: Billie Eilish
Drawing of a pink piggy

Anonymous: Piggy

Sebastian Arias Montoya: Chevinie
A black and white photo of a hamburger restaurant sign

Natalie M. Lising: Five Cent Burgers

Destiny Hogans: Bottleneck
Painting of a spider coming down a tree with a moon with a blue gradient in the background

Piper Castaneda: The Spider
dominoes on edge on platform of magnatiles, with lego figurine next to dominoes.

Sophia Mohammad: Prime Labyrinth

Hannah Kong: Untitled
A drawing of a fish

Stephanie Jimenez: Fish

Anonymous: Edwin’s Favorite Media

Leianne Obligado: Untitled

Daniel Jones: Untitled
A drawing of a colorful octopus with a unicorn and some fish underwater

Anabelle Ramunni: unicorn ocean magic
Drawing of a forest with mushrooms

Ruby Drexler: Untitled

Itzel Seledon-Garza: Oceanic Storm
Abstract painting with circles, smears, and lines

Anonymous: Gold Circles #1 of 5
Drawing of a girl with red pigtails and green eyes

Chrisette Armour: Shine
A digital drawing of a person with black hair, a black hat and a red tie

Anonymous: Aiden

Charlotte Moss: Untitled

Alexa Messier: Reality

Nivian Ellison: We are all beautiful
A portrait of a girl with big, pink hair and a crown with an eye above her head

Anonymous: Colored Girl Magic
Purple rabbit head made of fur.

Keiran Eatinger: Icing Rabbit

Anonymous: Mudz

Anonymous: COVID Kiss
A sculpture of a popsicle stick raft with a girl and turtle made of clay sitting on the raft.

Lily Estrada: Lily’s Raft adventures
Three cut paper birds

Danika Dollinger: Untitled
An abstract flow painting with black blue and orange

Anonymous: Streaks of Color

Iriz Lugo: Amelia Earhart

Fiona Mix: I Want to Go Home
A painting with yellows and magenta with Arabic lettering in black.

Anonymous: Untitled
An abstract flow painting of different shades of blue

Keevionte Mohomes: SEA OF BLUE
Drawing of shapes, lines, and colors

Anonymous: Patterns
Men in striped suits and mustaches doing acrobatics

Suha Kapadia: Untitled

Emaiya McKay: New Horizon

Noah Trent: THE EPIC PANDEMIC FALL
watercolor of a tree with no leaves on a background of blue, yellow, and pink stripes

Akshara Rajan: The Curvy Tree

Nina Djurovic: Piazza di Trevi
Cardboard maze

Max Herro: Labyrinth Game
A digital drawing of a wolf with one eye

Anonymous: The Lone Star
Painting of a the silhouette of a tree against a moonlit sky with purple and blue swirls

Ariana Junior: Moonlight
A drawing of a woman with a yellow head wrap

Senade Sodji: My African Grandma
Intersecting red and green lines, kind of looks like pipes

Matthew Greco: Life’s Intersections
A drawing of the Statue of Liberty

Nash McBride: Ellis Island
Paper flower sculptures

Julia Rodriguez: “Springtime Flowers”

Anonymous: Untitled
Mixed media tree made out of paper, paint, and cotton balls.

Casey Fiumefreddo: Fall
Drawing of robot with his hand outstretched

Anonymous: Robot dreams
Graphite drawing of a person's face with short hair

Lilliane Shen: Sunshine in My Eyes
A painting of two trees with green leaves and green grass.

Ibrahim Alesaei: The Forest
A drawing of two people under two big white clouds with snow falling

Grey Shady: Me & West In A Snowstorm
Drawing of a girl with a halo and stars around her head

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: unnamed
A watercolor painting of a giraffe with a flower in its mouth

Sally Reimer: The Giraffe

Anonymous: Pink Lotus
An artistic copy of Van Goghs Starry Night

Anonymous: Northern Lights and Stars
A painting of a crab and some fish at the bottom of the ocean

Paul Miller: Under the Sea

Anonymous: Untitled
A drawing of an anime character with glasses and brown hair

Charlie Lang: Hanji Zoe

Nevin Banu: Zig Zag
Dragon in front of a purple sky and moon

Anonymous: CHARIMAX
Drawing of a yellow bee on a pink flower

Chloe Liow: Untitled
Colorful surrealist painting of a bird with long legs

Jonny Drexler: Untitled
Digital drawing of Goofy over a picture of a child.

Lennox Barnes: Goofy Inspired
Drawing of a black cat with red eyes, and very long neck and arms.

Anonymous: Untitled
White and blue jellyfish on a black background

Sophia Renee Macias: Electric Shock – Glowing Jellyfish in the Deep Sea
Colorful drawing of a dog

Seth Morton: Folk Art Dog
A folded modular origami parakeet bird

Elena Avila: Modular Origami Parakeet
Drawing of 3 people with party hats wearing masks.

Lea Vu: Playdate with Covid-19
Robot sculpture made of stacked boxes and jewels

Anonymous: Boxbot 2000

Harper McDonald: Hip Hop-Inspired Fashion
Colorful drawing of a turtle and Skittles

Anoymous: Skittle Turtles
Drawing of a sunset and trees

Alejandra Carmona Potosme: The Beauty Art
Drawing of a fruit bowl

Anonymous: Fruit Bowl
Two illustrations of girls in dresses

Anonymous: Twins from far away…
A drawing of a mouse and a girl in a birch forest

Penny Morris: Birch Forest
A painting of a girl with short hair and a question mark next to her head

Untitled: Self Portrait
Model of a red building

Yoshi Norris: Where I Live
Portrait of a female face, in pencil.

Kaline Adams: Portrait of a Girl
Painting of a guinea pig with a pink background

Mina Miranda: Guinea Pig
Abstract digital drawing of muted colors

Anonymous: My Design
Drawing of fairy in pink dress sniffing pink flower.

Anonymous: Fairy with Flower

Carter Palmer: Olive Oil Gets Strong Too

Anonymous: Ocean view landscape

Amani Davis: Fist Up
Colorful abstract drawing with many dots of color in the background and a rainbow in the foreground

Ava Kem Allen: Many Pieces

Anonymous: The Places I Wish I lived In
A painting of a whale in water with a sunset sky

Anonymous: Happy Whale

Jase Avery: Untitled
Balloons arranged in a rainbow pattern

Anonymous: Untitled

Estefano Sanchez: Monster Feelings

Zenon Ostrowski: computer heart

Camila Morales: Banana Boatin’
A drawing of pieces of toast all around a plate with toast with jelly on it

Ethel Adler-Grimm: Crazy Toast

Victor Fernandez: Freddy’s Drawings

anonymous: A Day at the Lake

Daniela Rodriguez: Green Diamond Heart
White collage of an owl on a yellow background

Ella Poczatek: Untitled
A pencil drawing of a raptor dinosaur

Anonymous: Raptor Dinosaur
Drawings of 3 girls with "you matter" written above them

Lana Surgit: You Matter
Drawing of an owl on a tree trunk

Adam Milic: Snowy Owl
Painting of 2 trees at night, with clouds like a river pouring into a pool in between the trees

Maia Daley: for world
Drawing of a green man with a blue cape

Adam Milic: Crocodile Super Hero

Anonymous: Beast

Anonymous: Untitled
Silhouette of a mom and her daughter in front of a sunset

Aarvi Vakharia: A Mother’s Love
A drawing of a big pink dinosaur on green grass

David Martinez: Dinosaur
Drawing of a woman with buttons on her skirt and a red shirt

Zoe Fowler: 100th day of school
A drawing of a girl holding a puppy

Enisa Khan: My true friend and a priceless treasure

Anonymous: Wilber’s Wonderland
Drawing of buildings and hearts

Bruno Salinas: The City of Faces

Anonymous: Alice in the Troubledland
Pencil drawing of a variety of weapons, including swords and nunchucks

Carter Wong: The Japan Armory
Painting of a cat with an orange face and blue body

Liliana Garcia: Lily’s Cat
Character in the dark surrounded by neon shapes

Alexandra Buckingham: Lexi

Brayden Yang: My Lovely Playroom
Collage of trees upside down with colored pencils and clothes

Victor Berg: Untitled
Colored pencil drawing of a shark head coming out of the water.

Anonymous: Jaws the Mighty

Daliya Owerko: untitled

Anonymous: Rain
A drawing of a small animal with big glasses

Anonymous: Misses applebee
Digital drawing of a wolf with red mountains in the background

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of 2 yellow tigers under a tree. In the sky, written "Save tigers" with a red heart.

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of two dogs, one done with warm colors and the other with cool colors

Ottilie Forster: Warm vs Cool
Drawing of 3 people with party hats wearing masks.

Anonymous: Playdate with Covid-19
Black and white drawing of fish, mountains, and water

Yoel Lopez: Funky Fishies
Drawings of 4 different characters

Anonymous: FNAF Pizzeria Simulator
A rainbow zebra collage

Yaretzy Marquez: The Colors of Nature

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: The Canvas of Connection
Painting of rainbow coming out of the sun in space, beaming down to the Earth.

Anonymous: Space Bridge

Anonymous: Untitled
A drawing of three girls

Anonymous: Super School
Drawing of a mosaic bird in front of a photo of clouds

Leonardo Fonseca: Blue Jay

Catherine Choi: Water fun
Yellow and purple drawing of street poles, traffic cones, and more.

Cilia Conley: Untitled

Alya Brice: My Teachers
Digital illustration of a girl next to a floating book with green glowing lights

Jael Green: Magic is Like Avocados

Anonymous: Naruto
Child's face with other elements collaged over it

Bo Chuong Pasetto: Untitled

Anonymous: Self-portrait

Abigail Arellano: Untitled

Julianne Martinez: Cat
Blue and purple painting of a field

Claire Mun: Spring

Anonymous: The Mystics of the Forest

Henry Naylon: J Park vehicle and background
Animated gif of a bomb exploding

Anonymous: Explode
A colorful drawing of figures with rainbow lines surround them

Brody Cox: Dancer’s in the City
Drawing of a cat in the middle of a bunch of flames.

Sofia Faisal: Flame Cat
Modeling clay sculptures of cats

Corinne Beerdeke: Cat City
Photograph of a boy with a mask drawn on his face

Anonymous: doc-zom by

Maggie Bao: Sleeping Panda

Max Silverman: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Seraphina Royer: Tissue Flowers

Maya Avila: Lion With a Big Mane
A drawing of a person with long hair

Nailah Faisal: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Vincent Young: The Most Awesome Crew in the Universe
Black and white line drawing of a monster face.

Milo Mattfield: Eyes Forward, Mine Door Wood
Graphite drawing of a girl

Jenny Angeles: Jennie

Calvin Farr: Untitled

William Velasquez Quezada: Happy Train
Pencil drawing of a girl wearing a mask

Georgia Pooler: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Todoro Rainbow

Anonymous: Color of Emotion
Pencil drawing of a dragon's head

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Illustration of a person in a hoodie with writing all over the photo

Amara Messier: Isolation
A girl with flowers in her blue and purple hair

Katrina Lin: Shine in Light

Ximena Cardenas: Untitled

Analia Madrigal: Starlight
Photograph of a paper cathedral sculpture

Lindsey Prochot: “Classical Cathedral”
Drawing of Pinocchio in colored pencil.

Nestor Sisiruca Gallo: Pinocchio

Gael Colorado: Earth City
Drawing of a blue gill fish

Anonymous: La Loteria Blue Gill
line drawing of four girls in different colors

Anonymous: Emotions
A pixelated colorful parrot

Anonymous: Macaw in pixels
Line drawing of a shark-like creature with a long spiky tongue

Anonymous: Buzz

Ashley Loera: The perfect day
Drawing of a castle

Brennan Metzger: Dark Castle Ruins
Drawing of a person surrounded by cats in front of a pyramid

Isabel Wood: Frida

Charlie Carroll: Untitled
Colorful drawing of an ice cream cone in front of a colorful background

Audrey Uspensky: Rainbow Ice Cream
Drawing of two people shaking hands in front of a rainbow of colors

Anonymous: Rainbow Shake
Photo of round yarn earrings

Joana Jovanova: Untitled
Black and white stylized illustration of a princess

Kaely Ascencio: Guess the Princess
A portrait of a boy in a blue shirt and durag

Dashawn Garner: Durag Boy
A colorful sun with red, blue, and yellow, and a face.

Minahil Ahmed: Cryptosun
Graphite self-portrait drawing of a boy with a striped shirt

Steven Jiang: Self-Portrait
Colored pencil drawing of a tree from above

Anonymous: The Biggest Tree

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of a person in gray curled into a ball falling through a gray sky.

Anastacia Torres: Anxiety
Digital collage of a cat on the white house with a circus out front

Ariadna Avalos: False Promises
Drawing of a fruit bowl

Anonymous: Fruit Bowl
An optical illusion of green squares

Anonymous: Jae V On
Comic style drawing of people in their homes

Margaret Williams: Me and my friends in Ms. Kanellopoulos’s class
Drawing of a bunch of rooms with cats in them

Hannah Lou: Untitled
A drawing of a figure covering their face with compartments of troubling events from 2020 and 2021 above.

Kayla Aguayo: Untitled

Camron Palmer: Popeye the Sailor Man
Drawing of fox in front of mountains.

Isabella Watkins: Mr. Fox
Ink drawing of a boy smiling

Anonymous: Miles Morales
Drawing of Chicago Flag with different symbols

Brennan Metzger: My Chicago Symbols
A colorful drawing of the earth and futuristic buildings under a purple sky.

Anonymous: A Futuristic Crystal World
A cloudy image with a paintbrush painting a rainbow

Cindy Cen: A Final Resort, Escape
A purple person without a face holding their hand up making a circle with their fingers

Laila Chiquito: Hisoka
A drawing of four people standing under a blue sky with clouds

Anonymous: Mi creatividad con papel

Luca Macri: Movement

Anonymous: Untitled
Abstract painting with blues, greens, and oranges

Ellison Knapp: Mental Overload

Anonymous: Winter is Coming!
Crayon drawing of a girl and a dragon

Winnie Miller: Princess Cimorne
Drawing of a jellyfish with flowers on its tentacles

Yahira Martinez-Castanon: Jellyflower
A robot sculpture

Evelyn Rocha: Recycled Object Robot
Drawing of a phoenix with "Sor Juana Field Day 2021" written underneath in red marker.

Ava Campos: Untitled
Crayon drawing of a penguin on a blue background

Derek Guerra: Penguin
A drawing of a ballerina with a red skirt

Anonymous: Jojo ballerina

MIA JUAREZ: Color of Eye
Trash can mosaic

Delilah Diaz: Untitled
A drawing of a boys face with blonde hair and blue eyes

Bruce Reinard: Self Portrait
Drawing of a man with a red coat

Anonymous: Barack Obama

Anonymous: Crazy Creative

Celeste Kaplan: It’s My Job to be Annoying
Drawing of buildings with birds and a yellow sun

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of an orange and yellow sky with clouds over blue water

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a hand breaking through the ground, texture on fingers and in background

Sunita Burwell Mehta: Break Through
Black and white graphite drawing of a girl

Anonymous: Untitled
Watercolor of a tree and Christmas bells

Isabella Martinez: Untitled

Khristo Reyes: Urban Shark

Natalie Pate: Under the Sea
A pencil drawing of a scarecrow surrounded by pumpkins

Anonymous: Autumn Harvest
Self portrait of person with dark hair in a purple hoodie

Alexandrea Suggs: Desire
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