CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2023 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.

sculpture

Jake Dentino: Robots
Painting of an underwater scene with many sea creatures. A whale comes toward the surface where a ship floats.

Anonymous: Jonah
mountains

Anonymous: Mountain Landscape
Picasso style painting of a star wars character. The ace of the figure is ombre orange, the neck and background are pink, and the character's hair is is blue and green striped.

Anonymous: Picasso Ahsoka
A sunset over a lake.

Deeron Holmes: Vice Island
Canvas is covered in paint. Abstract with colors peach, brown, blue, and green.

Anonymous: She Sees

Anonymous: Equal

Yupawadee Ruechasoontorn: My pets and favorable flowers.
bunny in spring

Mark Borsos: Bunny in Springtime
A yellow pom pom with two googly eyes makes a head and is attached to a pink pom pom ( the body) via pipe cleaners.

Anonymous: The Figures Three

Hannah Boegen-Stork: Sunset Tree
bob ross

Leonardo Piccolo: Sleeping Nature
Pencil drawing of a tulip tied up into a bouquet.

Ella Chenzhen: Untitled

Anonymous: Dragonfly
Pipe cleaners twisted together to make a 3D sculpture.

Anonymous: The Figures 1

Anonymous: Scarecrow in the night

Anonymous: Pink Punk

Klaus Kirkwood: The Painting
Paper is split into 3 sections with detailed characters drawn in pen on each. Red and yellow marker accents.

Anonymous: The Three Sages
Figures in front of a brick wall.

Devin Nieves: Haring X Monsters
Woman with spear in blue outfit stands in front of a red background.

Lola Dale: Fry

Anonymous: 3-D Dragon Mask

Sofie Yang: A Lion’s Tale

Anonymous: Winter Cabin in the Woods

Riley Tuider: Stacking Cups

Anonymous: Unicycle

Anonymous: Cardinal
A drawing of a girl with pink beads in her hair, a blue sweater, and a pink shirt outside near the sun and a tree.

Anonymous: A Picture of Me

Reagan Johnson: Flat Flowers

Anonymous: Fruit Snail

Helena Mucha: Daffodil Of Life
Drawing of a bird with many different wings all extending out of the main body.

Taisuke Uto: Seraphim
the unknown

Michael O’Neill: The Unkown

Sherrie All: Mandarine Orange

Mason Green: Untitled

Amy Iniguez: Sleepy Starry Dragon

Anonymous: Survivalists
Sharpie is used to black out parts of a book page. A figure crouches at the bottom of the drawing. "Screams" is written in yellow at the top of the drawing.

Emanuel Macias: SCREAMS
Yellow roses are bundled up with blue paper, tied with a red ribbon. The word "Flowers" is written to the right of the bouquet.

Anonymous: Flowers
Pencil drawing of 3 girls' faces

Alexandra Serafin: Babymetal

Anonymous: Untitled

Logan Asais: Unikitty

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Alien Rhapsody

Sarah Anderson: Alien Rhapsody
Woman with green hair and a purple dress holds a globe over a purple background.

Mehin Qasimov: Mother Nature
Painting of a woman behind two pillars. She has blond hair in a bun and braids and is inspired by greek mythology.

Alma Vega: Statue of Greek Times

Anonymous: See Red City
ava

Ava Shirley: Bouquet

Naomi Fehr: This is Mary Jackson
A smiling cat is drawing with many bright colors. Purple and orange line exude from the cat.

Anonymous: A Cat of Many Colors

Anonymous: Landscape Collage

Louis Swingley: Buzzsaw

Soren Hoover: The Raccoon’s Happy For A Ride

Anonymous: Journey

Sophia Manzo: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Milana Dmitrileva: Winter Cardnals
Black and white photo of water disturbed in a bowl and spilling out.

Eric Arias-Montoya Jr: Pureza Perturbada
Collage on a black background. In the center is a set of human eyes on speckled white paper. Surrounding it are natural images including a horse and a bird.

Anonymous: Natural Life
Painting/ drawing with many symbols including an ancient pyramid, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and others. Colorful and overlapping.

Anonymous: Viva la Raza
Sculpture of a skateboarder on a ramp.

Will Bubness: Blaze

Linda Tang: Star

Ella Lewis: Galaxy
city

Mehaan Saxena: The Boy In The Big Town

Noah Singleton: Neighborhood

Anonymous: Untitled

Andrew Barajas, Daniel Chavez, Alexander Serna: The Goat Debate

Nevin Banu: Man In the Rain

Anonymous: The Intruder

Anonymous: Acadia National Park
lady face

Corinne Windham: Always perfect

Kyla Gayfield: Untitled

Yolanda Perez: The Unexpected Bird

Anonymous: The Pattern of Zen

Braylen Clark: Self-Portrait

Chai-Ling: SenDa+Mei+3

Keagan Hyland: Untitled
Blue, pink, red, and yellow sunset is painted on four quadrants of cardboard.

Sofia Cancio: Magical Sunsets
A character with sunglasses on a background of rainbow colors.

Jaliyah Stubblefield Digital Overlay

Anonymous: The Yellow Sponges

Terri Hartman: Untitled
Notan

Ruilan He: Nature Notan Design #2

Sherrie All: Chocolate Dipped Strawberry

Anonymous: Coco With Pancake
An orange lion with a long tail stands next to a gold first place cup.

Elizabeth Ho: Lion Monkey’s Win

Anonymous: The Jungle

Anonymous: Lunar Festival

Meghan Gonnissen: Owl
Shaded flower and mushroom scene with a rabbit. Many colors.

Elizabeth Konior: Untitled
A green and yellow bird sits on a brown tree branch. It is surrounded by vines and flowers near it and on the ground below it.

Anonymous: Nature
Self portrait a boy with a neutral facial expression on white paper.

Anonymous: Self Portrait
A painting of an eye is surrounded by purple and black purple triangle whose tip is attached to the circular eye painting.

Anonymous: Seeing Through the Fragments of Life
Lots of legs

Frank Miller: Rainbow Monster with 1000 Legs

Anonymous: Robot World

Antoinette Nehru Pangan: Hopping
Barbie is colored in like a skeleton and wears a blue and grey dress.

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture
ladybugs

Bennett Trinh: Lady Bugs
Pink and pencil outlined Hello Kitty world. A blue sky with white clouds is behind.

Anonymous: Linescape
wellingford

Isabel Wallingford: Untitled
Complex drawing of many white skulls surrounding a larger red skull in the center. Lines connect all the calls over a multi-toned blue background.

Anonymous: I Hope My Bones Are In There
Digital artpiece with many characters and objects like a ukulele and a melting pizza layered over each other in bright colors.

Anonymous: Stuck
wine and fruit

Anonymous: December 24

Anonymous: Nerve Wracking
Brown, mostly vertical sculpture.

Anonymous: Wave
self portrait

Rae Jones: Self Portrait #3
Abstract ink pen drawing. Black lines cross different sections of the page which are each colored in different ways.

Anonymous: Suspect

Anonymous: The Outcome of Our Alliance
Drawing of a dog. ON his skin are holes which reveal various body parts like teeth and eyes

Mina Miranda: Demon Dog

Reyna Ladsariya: Diya

Anonymous: Eyes

Anonymous: Untitled

Isaac Davila: Imaginary Creatures
A skeleton dressed in a cowboy hat and blue shirt is painted holding a coke bottle.

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco
Drawing of a large green tree with yellow light shinning down on a blue background.

Lucas Bautista: The Day of Life

Anonymous: Lion

Anonymous: Skyy Light Skyy Bright

Sophie Padilla: Untitled

Anonymous: Mirror Invention

Anonymous: Zentangled

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco

Anonymous: The Lady
skull

Rana Vaccaro: Spring Dragon Skull

Symphani Torres: Yearbook Page
papercraft

Hailey Rodden: Sky the Crazy
Drawing of a large tree trunk with large protruding branches.

Jeremy Sanchez: Strength as Strong as a Tree

Elias Bailey: Elias’s Pirate Map

Anonymous: Heat Rings

Anonymous: Agya The Wasp
Acrylic painting of a landscape during sunrise.

Anonymous: Beautiful Morning
snowy small town at night.

Anonymous: Snowy Night
An open house with many rooms lies on a gold background. Each room has different items within.

Zoey El-Mofty: Cabinet of Curiosity
Clay modeled after 3 ancient Egyptian people.

Ella Shingleton-Duyka: Ancient Egyptians
we rise

Sinead Talty: 7th grade Maya Angelou collaboration

Lucy Brown: Animal Planet

Anonymous: Texture Tile
strong women

Eummani Galaviz: Celebrating Women of Color
Drawing of a very colorful theater mask on pink paper with multi colored strings hanging from it.

Catherine Chai: A Broadway Theater Mask

Alyra Neely: Just Love

Anonymous: Untitled

Soup

Samantha Zhao: Bodies of Water
snowy bird

Jack Sora: Snowy Bird

Maja Thanos: Crazy Spring Feelings

Anonymous: Burning Candle
A painted blue jay sits on a brown tree branch. There is an orange and brown background behind.

Ivy Nordlund: Blue Jay
Nighttime streetscape

Samantha Kraus: Kenopsia
Drawing of a puppy with long floppy ears lying down.

Jeremy Sanchez: Puppy Eyes
box

Susie Kirkwood: THE PAINTING

Sherie All: Fresh Watermelon

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: The Rappin’ Canines
Digital image of a young man in a red hoodie. Behind him are many different blue signs that would be seen on a street.

Anonymous: Street A
Red pipe cleaner is wrapped around two purple pom poms which make feet. Above, the red pipe cleaner wraps around an orange and pink pom pom which makes a head that has two googly eyes.

Anonymous: The Figures 2
Pencil drawing of two center flowers with leaves and smaller flowers around it.

Caitlynn Chiu: Sketching Flowers

Sofie Yang:#Stop Asian Hate

Anonymous: Untitled
separation

Pearlin Melodia SamPaul Jeevitha: Separation

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Beatrice
drawing

Charles Keeble: Untitled
Watercolor and illustration of a tiger.

Anonymous: Power

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Tree of Life
Eagle

Uriel Salcedo: El AGUILA ES LIBRE
crazy sonic

Chauncey Kennedy Jr.: Crazy Sonic
watercolor lion

Kaylen Parks: The Lion #4

Terri Hartman: Untitled

Edmond Zhao: Untitled

Chloe Barahona: Ndebele House Diorama
comic strip

Amee Shah: Ohio Be Like…
A venus fly trap is drawing as a character with eyes. Two human legs dangle out of it.

Anonymous: Audrey II

Bennett Carter Pangan: Rays

Angelina Berg: Down By the River

Anonymous: Sunset at the ocean

Anonymous: Fred’s Bad Day
a walk in the forest

CLAIRE MUN: A Walk in the Forest

Emanuel Macias: SCREAMS
Chalk pastel drawing of a yellow cake on a platter. A piece of the cake is cut out to expose the purple and pink cake layers.

Anonymous: Cake Time

Anonymous: King Cobra
Maya

Maya Vinsel: Untitled

Livi Williams: OVERWHELMED

Anonymous: Moon Dragon

Anonymous: Pathways

Sawyer Elkhatib: Little Deer
stuffed animals

Hailey Rodden: Untitled

Henry Colehower: Rollerblade Mania

Jeremy Kole: Dog Sitting
Drawing of a cozy, empty coffee shop.

Nectaria Nedelea: Coffee House

Aria Richardson: Sunny Cat Magic Trash
Sharpie portrait of Frida Kahlo's head and neck drawn over a green and red floral background.

Anonymous: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

Yinu Wang: Color in darkness

Anonymous: Spring in Ukraine

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture
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