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.

Naomi Fehr: This is Mary Jackson

Yinu Wang: Color in darkness

Livi Williams: OVERWHELMED

Chai-Ling: SenDa+Mei+3
Maya

Maya Vinsel: Untitled

Samantha Zhao: Bodies of Water
Drawing of a cozy, empty coffee shop.

Nectaria Nedelea: Coffee House
wellingford

Isabel Wallingford: Untitled
Canvas is covered in paint. Abstract with colors peach, brown, blue, and green.

Anonymous: She Sees

Anonymous: King Cobra

Anonymous: Eyes
Sharpie portrait of Frida Kahlo's head and neck drawn over a green and red floral background.

Anonymous: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

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

Sofia Cancio: Magical Sunsets

Bennett Carter Pangan: Rays
A painted blue jay sits on a brown tree branch. There is an orange and brown background behind.

Ivy Nordlund: Blue Jay

Anonymous: Nerve Wracking

Soup
A skeleton dressed in a cowboy hat and blue shirt is painted holding a coke bottle.

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco

Anonymous: Spring in Ukraine

Soren Hoover: The Raccoon’s Happy For A Ride

Anonymous: 3-D Dragon Mask
the unknown

Michael O’Neill: The Unkown

Alyra Neely: Just Love
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

Milana Dmitrileva: Winter Cardnals

Anonymous: Lunar Festival
Drawing of a large green tree with yellow light shinning down on a blue background.

Lucas Bautista: The Day of Life
lady face

Corinne Windham: Always perfect

Anonymous: Winter Cabin in the Woods
watercolor lion

Kaylen Parks: The Lion #4
self portrait

Rae Jones: Self Portrait #3

Lucy Brown: Animal Planet

Jeremy Kole: Dog Sitting
A smiling cat is drawing with many bright colors. Purple and orange line exude from the cat.

Anonymous: A Cat of Many Colors

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco

Isaac Davila: Imaginary Creatures
sculpture

Jake Dentino: Robots

Anonymous: Lion
Notan

Ruilan He: Nature Notan Design #2

Anonymous: Robot World

Anonymous: The Jungle

Anonymous: See Red City
Paper is split into 3 sections with detailed characters drawn in pen on each. Red and yellow marker accents.

Anonymous: The Three Sages

Anonymous: Landscape Collage

Anonymous: Untitled

Hannah Boegen-Stork: Sunset Tree

Logan Asais: Unikitty
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

Terri Hartman: Untitled

Anonymous: Acadia National Park
A sunset over a lake.

Deeron Holmes: Vice Island
A character with sunglasses on a background of rainbow colors.

Jaliyah Stubblefield Digital Overlay

Sofie Yang:#Stop Asian Hate
Pencil drawing of a tulip tied up into a bouquet.

Ella Chenzhen: Untitled
Barbie is colored in like a skeleton and wears a blue and grey dress.

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture

Anonymous: Untitled
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

Sophie Padilla: Untitled
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
Pencil drawing of two center flowers with leaves and smaller flowers around it.

Caitlynn Chiu: Sketching Flowers
Pipe cleaners twisted together to make a 3D sculpture.

Anonymous: The Figures 1

Anonymous: Untitled
Watercolor and illustration of a tiger.

Anonymous: Power
Brown, mostly vertical sculpture.

Anonymous: Wave
Shaded flower and mushroom scene with a rabbit. Many colors.

Elizabeth Konior: Untitled

Anonymous: Zentangled

Emanuel Macias: SCREAMS
snowy small town at night.

Anonymous: Snowy Night
city

Mehaan Saxena: The Boy In The Big Town
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
Black and white photo of water disturbed in a bowl and spilling out.

Eric Arias-Montoya Jr: Pureza Perturbada
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
Drawing of a bird with many different wings all extending out of the main body.

Taisuke Uto: Seraphim

Anonymous: The Intruder

Louis Swingley: Buzzsaw

Reagan Johnson: Flat Flowers

Anonymous: Scarecrow in the night
comic strip

Amee Shah: Ohio Be Like…

Anonymous: Dragonfly

Noah Singleton: Neighborhood

Anonymous: The Outcome of Our Alliance

Anonymous: Equal

Anonymous: Tree of Life

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Pink Punk

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Cardinal
Drawing of a large tree trunk with large protruding branches.

Jeremy Sanchez: Strength as Strong as a Tree
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

Riley Tuider: Stacking Cups
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

Helena Mucha: Daffodil Of Life
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

Edmond Zhao: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Coco With Pancake

Aria Richardson: Sunny Cat Magic Trash

Anonymous: The Lady
snowy bird

Jack Sora: Snowy Bird

Sherrie All: Chocolate Dipped Strawberry

Braylen Clark: Self-Portrait
A venus fly trap is drawing as a character with eyes. Two human legs dangle out of it.

Anonymous: Audrey II

Anonymous: Agya The Wasp

Antoinette Nehru Pangan: Hopping
An orange lion with a long tail stands next to a gold first place cup.

Elizabeth Ho: Lion Monkey’s Win

Angelina Berg: Down By the River

Anonymous: Pathways
skull

Rana Vaccaro: Spring Dragon Skull
Alien Rhapsody

Sarah Anderson: Alien Rhapsody
mountains

Anonymous: Mountain Landscape

Amy Iniguez: Sleepy Starry Dragon

Sophia Manzo: Untitled
Clay modeled after 3 ancient Egyptian people.

Ella Shingleton-Duyka: Ancient Egyptians

Anonymous: Fruit Snail
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

Sherie All: Fresh Watermelon
Sculpture of a skateboarder on a ramp.

Will Bubness: Blaze

Anonymous: Beatrice

Anonymous: Moon Dragon

Chloe Barahona: Ndebele House Diorama

Meghan Gonnissen: Owl

Andrew Barajas, Daniel Chavez, Alexander Serna: The Goat Debate
Abstract ink pen drawing. Black lines cross different sections of the page which are each colored in different ways.

Anonymous: Suspect
ava

Ava Shirley: Bouquet
Digital artpiece with many characters and objects like a ukulele and a melting pizza layered over each other in bright colors.

Anonymous: Stuck
crazy sonic

Chauncey Kennedy Jr.: Crazy Sonic

Henry Colehower: Rollerblade Mania

Anonymous: Fred’s Bad Day
Painting/ drawing with many symbols including an ancient pyramid, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and others. Colorful and overlapping.

Anonymous: Viva la Raza
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

Sawyer Elkhatib: Little Deer
Painting of an underwater scene with many sea creatures. A whale comes toward the surface where a ship floats.

Anonymous: Jonah

Elias Bailey: Elias’s Pirate Map

Anonymous: Untitled
Lots of legs

Frank Miller: Rainbow Monster with 1000 Legs

Terri Hartman: Untitled

Sofie Yang: A Lion’s Tale

Klaus Kirkwood: The Painting

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

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: The Pattern of Zen
drawing

Charles Keeble: Untitled

Mason Green: Untitled
bunny in spring

Mark Borsos: Bunny in Springtime

Anonymous: The Rappin’ Canines

Maja Thanos: Crazy Spring Feelings
Woman with spear in blue outfit stands in front of a red background.

Lola Dale: Fry
Acrylic painting of a landscape during sunrise.

Anonymous: Beautiful Morning
a walk in the forest

CLAIRE MUN: A Walk in the Forest

Anonymous: Unicycle
strong women

Eummani Galaviz: Celebrating Women of Color

Linda Tang: Star

Anonymous: Sunset at the ocean

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

Mina Miranda: Demon Dog
ladybugs

Bennett Trinh: Lady Bugs
Drawing of a puppy with long floppy ears lying down.

Jeremy Sanchez: Puppy Eyes

Keagan Hyland: Untitled
papercraft

Hailey Rodden: Sky the Crazy

Anonymous: Burning Candle
box

Susie Kirkwood: THE PAINTING
Pink and pencil outlined Hello Kitty world. A blue sky with white clouds is behind.

Anonymous: Linescape

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture

Anonymous: Journey

Sherrie All: Mandarine Orange

Anonymous: Untitled
separation

Pearlin Melodia SamPaul Jeevitha: Separation
Nighttime streetscape

Samantha Kraus: Kenopsia

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

Zoey El-Mofty: Cabinet of Curiosity
Eagle

Uriel Salcedo: El AGUILA ES LIBRE

Anonymous: Mirror Invention

Anonymous: The Yellow Sponges

Yolanda Perez: The Unexpected Bird
stuffed animals

Hailey Rodden: Untitled
Woman with green hair and a purple dress holds a globe over a purple background.

Mehin Qasimov: Mother Nature
we rise

Sinead Talty: 7th grade Maya Angelou collaboration

Symphani Torres: Yearbook Page

Nevin Banu: Man In the Rain

Reyna Ladsariya: Diya

Anonymous: Skyy Light Skyy Bright

Yupawadee Ruechasoontorn: My pets and favorable flowers.
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
Pencil drawing of 3 girls' faces

Alexandra Serafin: Babymetal
wine and fruit

Anonymous: December 24
Figures in front of a brick wall.

Devin Nieves: Haring X Monsters

Ella Lewis: Galaxy

Anonymous: Heat Rings
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
Drawing of a very colorful theater mask on pink paper with multi colored strings hanging from it.

Catherine Chai: A Broadway Theater Mask
bob ross

Leonardo Piccolo: Sleeping Nature
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