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.

Woman with spear in blue outfit stands in front of a red background.

Lola Dale: Fry

Anonymous: Lion
papercraft

Hailey Rodden: Sky the Crazy

Anonymous: Landscape Collage

Anonymous: Spring in Ukraine
A skeleton dressed in a cowboy hat and blue shirt is painted holding a coke bottle.

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco
Pipe cleaners twisted together to make a 3D sculpture.

Anonymous: The Figures 1
skull

Rana Vaccaro: Spring Dragon Skull
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
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

Noah Singleton: Neighborhood

Anonymous: Acadia National Park
A smiling cat is drawing with many bright colors. Purple and orange line exude from the cat.

Anonymous: A Cat of Many Colors

Sofie Yang: A Lion’s Tale

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

Mina Miranda: Demon Dog
separation

Pearlin Melodia SamPaul Jeevitha: Separation

Anonymous: Lunar Festival

Anonymous: Beatrice

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

Caitlynn Chiu: Sketching Flowers
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

Nevin Banu: Man In the Rain

Anonymous: Unicycle

Anonymous: Sunset at the ocean
watercolor lion

Kaylen Parks: The Lion #4
Drawing of a puppy with long floppy ears lying down.

Jeremy Sanchez: Puppy Eyes
box

Susie Kirkwood: THE PAINTING
An open house with many rooms lies on a gold background. Each room has different items within.

Zoey El-Mofty: Cabinet of Curiosity
Sharpie portrait of Frida Kahlo's head and neck drawn over a green and red floral background.

Anonymous: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

Anonymous: Burning Candle

Edmond Zhao: Untitled
Paper is split into 3 sections with detailed characters drawn in pen on each. Red and yellow marker accents.

Anonymous: The Three Sages

Helena Mucha: Daffodil Of Life
bunny in spring

Mark Borsos: Bunny in Springtime
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
bob ross

Leonardo Piccolo: Sleeping Nature

Hannah Boegen-Stork: Sunset Tree
Nighttime streetscape

Samantha Kraus: Kenopsia
strong women

Eummani Galaviz: Celebrating Women of Color

Naomi Fehr: This is Mary Jackson

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

Jeremy Sanchez: Strength as Strong as a Tree

Maja Thanos: Crazy Spring Feelings
An orange lion with a long tail stands next to a gold first place cup.

Elizabeth Ho: Lion Monkey’s Win

Bennett Carter Pangan: Rays
lady face

Corinne Windham: Always perfect

Anonymous: The Rappin’ Canines
A character with sunglasses on a background of rainbow colors.

Jaliyah Stubblefield Digital Overlay

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: The Yellow Sponges

Anonymous: Journey
Figures in front of a brick wall.

Devin Nieves: Haring X Monsters
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

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

Anonymous: She Sees
Acrylic painting of a landscape during sunrise.

Anonymous: Beautiful Morning
Barbie is colored in like a skeleton and wears a blue and grey dress.

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture

Anonymous: Untitled
we rise

Sinead Talty: 7th grade Maya Angelou collaboration
ladybugs

Bennett Trinh: Lady Bugs

Braylen Clark: Self-Portrait

Reagan Johnson: Flat Flowers

Soren Hoover: The Raccoon’s Happy For A Ride

Amy Iniguez: Sleepy Starry Dragon
Eagle

Uriel Salcedo: El AGUILA ES LIBRE
A sunset over a lake.

Deeron Holmes: Vice Island

Sherrie All: Mandarine Orange
wine and fruit

Anonymous: December 24

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

Yupawadee Ruechasoontorn: My pets and favorable flowers.
snowy small town at night.

Anonymous: Snowy Night

Elias Bailey: Elias’s Pirate Map

Henry Colehower: Rollerblade Mania

Anonymous: Survivalists
Brown, mostly vertical sculpture.

Anonymous: Wave

Anonymous: The Outcome of Our Alliance

Kyla Gayfield: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
snowy bird

Jack Sora: Snowy Bird
Black and white photo of water disturbed in a bowl and spilling out.

Eric Arias-Montoya Jr: Pureza Perturbada

Anonymous: Equal

Aria Richardson: Sunny Cat Magic Trash
crazy sonic

Chauncey Kennedy Jr.: Crazy Sonic

Anonymous: See Red City

Isaac Davila: Imaginary Creatures
ava

Ava Shirley: Bouquet

Anonymous: The Pattern of Zen

Angelina Berg: Down By the River
Pink and pencil outlined Hello Kitty world. A blue sky with white clouds is behind.

Anonymous: Linescape

Anonymous: Robot World
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

Yolanda Perez: The Unexpected Bird
Watercolor and illustration of a tiger.

Anonymous: Power

Reyna Ladsariya: Diya

Keagan Hyland: Untitled

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Sofie Yang:#Stop Asian Hate

Alyra Neely: Just Love

Anonymous: Moon Dragon

Riley Tuider: Stacking Cups
comic strip

Amee Shah: Ohio Be Like…
Painting/ drawing with many symbols including an ancient pyramid, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and others. Colorful and overlapping.

Anonymous: Viva la Raza

Anonymous: 3-D Dragon Mask
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
Blue, pink, red, and yellow sunset is painted on four quadrants of cardboard.

Sofia Cancio: Magical Sunsets

Soup

Symphani Torres: Yearbook Page

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

Elizabeth Konior: Untitled

Anonymous: Fruit Snail

Sophie Padilla: Untitled
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

Anonymous: Zentangled
stuffed animals

Hailey Rodden: Untitled

Emanuel Macias: SCREAMS
Lots of legs

Frank Miller: Rainbow Monster with 1000 Legs
Painting of an underwater scene with many sea creatures. A whale comes toward the surface where a ship floats.

Anonymous: Jonah

Anonymous: Dragonfly
Pencil drawing of 3 girls' faces

Alexandra Serafin: Babymetal

Anonymous: King Cobra

Anonymous: The Jungle
Clay modeled after 3 ancient Egyptian people.

Ella Shingleton-Duyka: Ancient Egyptians
Drawing of a large green tree with yellow light shinning down on a blue background.

Lucas Bautista: The Day of Life
sculpture

Jake Dentino: Robots
self portrait

Rae Jones: Self Portrait #3
Pencil drawing of a tulip tied up into a bouquet.

Ella Chenzhen: Untitled
Abstract ink pen drawing. Black lines cross different sections of the page which are each colored in different ways.

Anonymous: Suspect

Anonymous: Nerve Wracking

Anonymous: Texture Tile

Anonymous: Skyy Light Skyy Bright
Sculpture of a skateboarder on a ramp.

Will Bubness: Blaze

Anonymous: Untitled

Samantha Zhao: Bodies of Water
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
city

Mehaan Saxena: The Boy In The Big Town
Drawing of a cozy, empty coffee shop.

Nectaria Nedelea: Coffee House

Anonymous: Scarecrow in the night

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

Catherine Chai: A Broadway Theater Mask

Terri Hartman: Untitled

Anonymous: The Intruder
Drawing of a bird with many different wings all extending out of the main body.

Taisuke Uto: Seraphim
Woman with green hair and a purple dress holds a globe over a purple background.

Mehin Qasimov: Mother Nature

Meghan Gonnissen: Owl

Anonymous: Fred’s Bad Day

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture
wellingford

Isabel Wallingford: Untitled

Anonymous: Winter Cabin in the Woods
Notan

Ruilan He: Nature Notan Design #2

Yinu Wang: Color in darkness
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

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: The Lady

Livi Williams: OVERWHELMED

Anonymous: Cardinal

Klaus Kirkwood: The Painting

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco

Logan Asais: Unikitty

Anonymous: Mirror Invention
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

Chai-Ling: SenDa+Mei+3

Anonymous: Agya The Wasp
Self portrait a boy with a neutral facial expression on white paper.

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Alien Rhapsody

Sarah Anderson: Alien Rhapsody
Digital artpiece with many characters and objects like a ukulele and a melting pizza layered over each other in bright colors.

Anonymous: Stuck

Anonymous: Coco With Pancake

Anonymous: Heat Rings
mountains

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

Ivy Nordlund: Blue Jay

Milana Dmitrileva: Winter Cardnals

Louis Swingley: Buzzsaw

Anonymous: Tree of Life

Anonymous: Untitled

Lucy Brown: Animal Planet
a walk in the forest

CLAIRE MUN: A Walk in the Forest

Anonymous: Eyes

Antoinette Nehru Pangan: Hopping

Mason Green: Untitled

Ella Lewis: Galaxy
the unknown

Michael O’Neill: The Unkown

Sherie All: Fresh Watermelon

Chloe Barahona: Ndebele House Diorama
A venus fly trap is drawing as a character with eyes. Two human legs dangle out of it.

Anonymous: Audrey II

Terri Hartman: Untitled

Sawyer Elkhatib: Little Deer

Linda Tang: Star

Jeremy Kole: Dog Sitting
drawing

Charles Keeble: Untitled

Sherrie All: Chocolate Dipped Strawberry
Maya

Maya Vinsel: Untitled
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