CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2022 High 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.

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Girl braiding her own hair

Cilia Conley: Knots
2 pages of Comic panels

Anonymous: Untitled
Pink digital design with a silhouette of a girl and "THE FUTURE IS FEMALE" repeating behind it.

Anonymous: THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.
Mixed media including Vans shoes

Anonymous: Vans Custom Culture Entry Chicago
Drawing of the world with a mask on it

Anthony Perez: The World’s Pandemic
Painting of green trees on red and yellow background, splatters of black

Fatima Choudhry: Determined Tree: Resistance & Defiance
Ceramic skeleton with it's mouth wide open

Adrianna Montesinos: Screaming Skull
Digital drawing of man with no facial features and the text "her"

Mirza Mehmedagic: her
Graphic design of a person in darkness with neon colors behind them

Anonymous: Distorted Dystopia
line and drawing with color and ink

Edwin Sanchez: Release
Photograph of a person divided down the middle

Jimmie Rogers III: The Two Sides of Reality
3D Ferris Wheel

Anonymous: Ferris Wheel
Digital image of three fictional characters

Anonymous: Meditation in Death
Weaving of drawing with text page

Ariana Silverstein: The state of confusion
painting of a child looking through glasses

Ashley Quirarte: Glasses
Drawing of a skull with details around it including people

Anonymous: My dearest favorites at the time
Bright drawing of a city street with buildings and masks floating in the air

Kehinde Oseni: Closed Outdoors
3 page comic

Anonymous: Untitled
A portrait of someone special to the artist.

Daniella Marroquin: Happy Memories
American's view of Mexican Immigrants

Jamie Roman: I Only Like You When You Dance

Gianna Giammona : Inside My Mind
blue and grayscale portrait

Mya Burns: Lady B
Black and white portrait of a boy with black hair

Azizah Amin: These Two Windows
Embroidery of a walking trail with flowers on the sides

Anonymous: The 606 Trail
Sculpture of a silver hand

Adrian Lemus: Untitled
Paper cut out of a person standing in front of a grid

Brynn Walker: Untitled
investigating the corruption of governments

Norma Calderon: Accountant by Day, Bringer of Justice by Night
Burning figure on a purple and blue background

Hudson Ward: Untitled
box sculpture

Anonymous: Box Thing
Pencil drawing of mushrooms with striped background

Ida Rendon: Psychedelic
photo of a young boy playing guitar

Anonymous: My Brother
Digital image of a green slime character with a bandana

Julia Osorio: Slime character
Photo of person in winter gear with a red hat, scarf, & glovesdrawing on the rear window of a car with marker

Sydney Curran: For my Safety
monochomatic landscape painting

Carolina Carchi: The Chime of the Earth
Painting of person looking to the left

Daniela Rodriguez: V
Black and white photo of a small boy

Afifa Khatoon: Untitled
painting with pink, yellow, blue , and red stripe

Anonymous: 4

Chasity Ventura: Finally! Someone I can understand!
Arial view of workers in a field

Victoria Phan: Remembering the Lilies
Mixed media of someone flexing with yellow burst behind it

Anonymous: The Peoples Vaccine
Drawing of an eye with three rectangles around it

Anonymous: Untitled
drawing of a group of women

Jessica Vazquez: Para Las Mujeres
3 digital images depicting themes from Red Riding Hood

Megan Huynh: Red Riding Fool
Blue embroidery of flowers

Anonymous: Flower Mesh
Bright marker drawing of a skull with a red outline

Anonymous: Untitled
Pencil drawing of city buildings

Anonymous: Shading work
Digital drawing of a kitchen

Anonymous: Kitchen
black and white comic style watercolor painting

Citlalli Martinez: “Listen Before I Go”
Painting of a girl having a picnic with her dog. A pickaxe is lying next to her.

Olivia Kluska: Imaginary Escape
Painting of an astronaut standing on a yellow planet

Jasmine Arellano: Untitled
self portrait

Julian Nieves: Self-Portrait
pastel portrait of a young girl

Auttum Thomas: Magnified Love
Charcoal drawing of black woman with the word "breathe" on her forehead

Anonymous: Breathe
Drawing with multicolored flowers

Anonymous: Spring flowers
figure with eyes closed in front of red background

Mikhyla Appling: Beauty
Black background with white drawings and words

Eleanor Miranda: l?o??
Tempera painting of a winter scene with a river, a deer and a bunny

Jasmin Navas: Winter in the forest
Colored pencil self-portrait

Anonymous: Self-Portrait
Mural with figure in yellow in front of mountains, next to a brick wall with large sunflowers & water

Studio 3 Mural
Watercolor painting of a red & blue figure intertwining their pinky fingers

Anonymous: Pinky Promise
3D sculpture

Chloe Davidson: Moth
Colored pencil drawing

Sebastian Sorrondeguy: Untitled
Empty ice skating rink with American flag & speaker

Smila Gaulkin: The Rink after Dark

Anna Klymyuk: Untitled-Tomato

Nayary Delgado: The Floral Calavera

Anahi Alcala: El Zorro
cat with a knife

Endy Cuevas: Cat with a Knife
Drawing of an open window with flowers

Anonymous: Untitled
Paper mache avocado

Sofia Staudenmaier: Untitled
Two panel illustration of two people talking on the phone

Ruby Grant: Untitled
Bright marker drawing of emoji with flowers hearts and a rainbow

Jennifer Diaz: Untitled
Abstract ceramic sculpture

Arianna “Alii” Martinez: Distorted
Laser engraved drawing of a person with a face mask on wood

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Untitled
2 artworks, both of mixed media collage figures

Ezekiel Bizarro: Untitled
Photograph of buildings looking up

Anonymous: Back streets
landscape painting

Anonymous: Goodnight

Anonymous: Golden Goose
Friend eating soup after a high school dance

Brandon Huang: Noodle Soup
Ceramic Kitsune

Nicole Kozlowski: Untitled
a key with a wilted flower growing from it

Anonymous: Hands did it
Mixed media

Jennifer Villasana : Societys standards
Abstract colored pencil portrait

Beatrix Wunar: Untitled

Anonymous: Weaving
digital drawing of artist and her only sister

Anonymous: Twiggy

Dalinette Cruz: Space Girl Luna Lies
Ceramic scissors

Adrianna Montesinos: Necessity
Day of the dead skull drawing with bright colors

Anonymous: Day of the Dead
Abstract digital photograph

Madeleine Dugas: Untitled
Digital drawing of a girl with horns and glasses

Anonymous: Head in the Cloud
Photo of a profile of girl in silhouette

Denise Heath: Untitled
ink image of a brain on face

Jazzaria Robles: Mindset Scramble
black and white photo of a man

Alyssa Akbar: _MG_79381
Mixed media

Al Gasca : Hellscape
Terrarium scene of a kitchen with everything made of clay

Dayanara Diaz: Grandma’s Kitchen
Image of a red and green skull with bread and other items

Xochitl Alonso: Cake of Culture
mixed media journal

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a person in profile with cells in the background

Anonymous: Untitled
Pencil drawing of a person crouched with a dark background

Anonymous: Untitled
Marker drawing of Koi Fish

Yacqueline Chimal: Koi Pond
Stacked cylindrical forms

Lilianna Munoz: Untitled
Bright drawing of flowers on a blue background with a snake

Anonymous: Art work
artist's mother

Ray Olson: Mom’s Wedding Day
the headless horsewoman

Anonymous: Headless Horesman
Abstract close up photograph showing layers of circles

Holly Murphy: Frozen in Time
Digital design of figure drinking, laptop computer loading, cute monsters & flowers.

Jessica Flores: Untitled
blue scale portait

Anonymous: Untitled
a hybrid butterfly and human creature

Peyton Warren: The Transformation
Ceramic hand coming out the hole made by a coiled serpent

Giselle Raigosa: Manus Sepentes
Figure with pastel clothing & cutesy buttons and hair accessories sitting on a bench with a carton of milk, slice of cake, & pigeons

Betty Cavicchia: Amira
mixed media journal entry

Anonymous: Jac’s Journal 3
sculpture of record player

Anonymous: Record Player
Drawing of a person holding a pencil with a purple background

Kenia Perez: La Reforma Educativa
Mixed Media collage of different facial features put together

Lauren Brogan: Emma Collage
Watercolor & colored pencil comic

Anonymous: First Day of School
Drawing of person with head wrap and necklaces. Person has a mustache & beard

Raymond Carroll: Self-Portrait

Valeria Rios: Possibilities
Chalk art on cement of an earth that is half blue and half brown

Angie Wyrwas: The Future
Digital work of two people fighting. Red on top and blue on bottom

Anonymous: Battle of the mine
mixed media journal

Carolina Carchi: The Reason of My Life
painted of athletes kneeling

Anonymous: Knee Down
Bright drawing of a tiger with leaves around it

Roberto Perez: The fierce tiger
still life painting

Nathan Corral: Red Room with Paper Geishas
Sculpture of metal pins with blue paint

Anonymous: Untitled
sculpture

Eion Magana: Aswang
Mixed media purple flower with believe and love

Arturo Garcia: Hope
abstract colored pencil image

Anonymous: Untitled
Butterfly in the sky

Jonathan Carmelo: Butterfly Above the Sky
hybrid of a woman and a tree

Anonymous: Gaia
Pastel drawing of an artichoke on a red background

Celia Rivera: Untitled-Artichoke
artichoke

Celia Rivera: Untitled-Artichoke
ceramic frog sitting on a purple plate with a red hat

Meredith Joncha: Frog Prince
Drawing of a woman with ribs exposed

Anonymous: Open lies
Still hooded figure in hallway with ghostly moving figures walking

Andrew Kelley: Untitled
Photograph of a man sitting at a table in front of a green wall

Anonymous: Grandfathers Solace
Photo of a girl standing by a lantern

Melanie Canales: Retrospective Frames
Photo of figure watching a cartoon on tv

Anonymous: My Calm
painting of young girl

Anizee Willis: Herself
2 photos, one of a dog, one of a cat

Anonymous: Thankful
Drawing of a vegetable on a red table

Anahi Alcala: Hades
Drawing of a playground with a pink slide

Anonymous: Taste Of Nostalgia
Bright drawing of geometric shapes and flowers

Anonymous: Geometric and nature shapes
Purple and yellow paper cut of lips

Jane von der Sitt: Screaming!!
paper sculpture of a triceratops

Emily Acosta: Triceritops
robot that protects Chinatown from racism and hate crimes

Cassandra Schumacher: Protector of Chinatown
Drawing of a sun with rainbows

Valerie Betancourt: Untitled
Photograph of a metal structure from below

Ange-Marie Nifasha: Different Perspective
digital image of desert

David Estrada : The Beginning of the End
Slices of ceramic fruit

Anonymous: Untitled
Pencil drawing of a man sitting on a beam above the city

Anonymous: Untitled
drawing of heater

Jacob Serrano: Heater
portrait

Matthew Warren: Lights
Photo of a dog in the fall

Osmar Mora:
Colored pencil 5 page comic

Anonymous: Untitled Comic
4 men with night skyline in the background

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Full Size Render
Hallucinations of faces

Madison Rozwat: Madison+Rozwat+3
mixed image of human and animal

Natalie Colon: Untitled
Photo of eyeglasses in front of sidewalk & trees. We are looking through the glasses to see the scene as a digital drawing

Lilja-Aino Boley: Through My Eyes
The words "Just a little bit of your heart" make up the shape of a heart

Sandra Magdaleno: Valentine
illustration demonstrating the value of air

Tlaloc Ugarte: Gone
Digital painting of a black woman with Black Power earrings and text that says "Black Women for Black History"

Kamil Calmese: Black Women For Black History
Concept design for the "Final Glowforge"

Anonymous: Concept Drawing
Black & white Ink comic

Brynn Walker: Rock

Anonymous: doubleexposure2
Scratchboard of wolf spider in the center of black & white concentric web shapes

Anius Finch: Wolf Spider
People holding Ukrainian flags in front of "Cloud Gate"

Christina Poprych: Support Ukraine
life observation drawing of a nude figure

Anonymous: Judith and Holofernes
red, black, and white collage

Anonymous: Untitled
Series of self-portraits and lots of eyes in the background

Emma Alvarado: Growth
gun sculpture made of school supplies

Anonymous: How Many More
Digital collage of face showing cracks with an exposed brain & various items coming out of it

Anonymous: Untitled
Watercolor painting of dazed figure atop planet

Anonymous: Lexy
digital portraits of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting

Citlalli Rico: Alta Volare, My Love

Emmanuel Medina Gayon: Eternal Frost
Watercolor of deer with birds in its antlers

Simone Peña: Untitled
Watercolor painting of fish and jellyfish underwater

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Moods
landscape painting

Janali Ramos: Waterfall
painting of girl in sunflowers

Jessica Barreras: XIX_the sun
digital image of an old Spanish style building

Carolina Jimenez : Bernadette’s Campus
Ink drawing of a small town

Utsav Patel: Souviens Toi
Rubix cube with many hands turning it and facial features on the colored squares

Leila Ortiz: Disfigured
Digital illustration of 2 figures in motion

Anonymous: Untitled
Colored pencil drawing of flowers with colorful background

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital design with a building and biplane coming towards the viewer. Bear, trees, & mountains in the background.

Robert Lee: Welcome to California
Pencil drawing of people in boxes

Anonymous: Claustrophobia
Drawing of a clock with a sunset face

Anonymous: Untitled
Mixed media collage with heart in center and red triangles in the background

Mila Abdellatif: In My Heart
Collage of a panda

Brian Ortiz: The Bright Panda
White text on a black background that says "Beneath Me!"

Anonymous: Beneath Me!
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