CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2024 Senior Portfolio 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 Scholarships.

Matthew Hanson: Night Bus
A person looking into a broken mirror

Sam Meece-Potowski: Fractured Portrait
A colorful piece with a girl in a pink dress looking up at a planet and star filled sky.

Sky Asamoah: Otherworldly

Maya Bernal: Tarot Cards of Fear
Cultural ceramic with a tea light and family photo inside

Aeledth Ramirez Tellez: Para ellos
Female wearing a red scrunched up dress standing in a body of water

Charlotte Ochstein: Reef Bleaching Garment
Bird eating a nut on dirt with round grey stones in the background

Amri Rodriguez: Survival
A sculptural piece of a person with a flower head sitting cross-legged.

Emely Ramos: Ceramics
A drawing of shops on a street, with a person figure lying on the ground with a red circle on their chest.

Janelle Delangel: Back of the Yards
A dark face created from plaster with red dripping from the eyes and nose to represent blood.

Jonah Arnold: Untitled
To killer whales in dark blue water and mountains

Aleena Corral: Leaping Orca
A collage of a landscape view of a cemetery at night.

Zora Alleyne: Landscape Collage
Grey line work with color shapes and figure.

Keagan Ounsombath: Untitled
Perspective of a Chicago street at night

Sofia Bush: Old Town Silence

Karolina Kawula: Zagunie, Laszki
A photo of a side of a house with a forest background.

Aaron Bacon: Untitled
Dark center figure with white background

Nicole Rouse: Drowning
Crochet vinyl with Black woman on the cover

Naomi Man: OVERLOOKED
Train line with buildings from above view

Arthur Hajnos: Chicago Blue Line
Motion shot of train passing by

Sam Matznick: Mirror on the Train
A printmaking triptych depicting eggs in a pan.

Thomas Brumley: Breakfast
Close-up of a face looking up with DNA double helixes as veins in the eyes

Kostandina Goritsan: Hellenic DNA
Plethora of neon green, pink, blues, and purples coloring anatomical pelvis with insect wings and antenna

Jiayi Chen: Pelvis and Newborn
Horizon view of a neighborhood

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 2
White tray, section with CD with a circular center

Alexis Rivas: Congratulations
Birthday cake with blue table cloth.

Valeria Izaguirre: Nostalgia
Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled
A photo taken from a dark environment indoors, showing the silhouettes of a line of people against a window that gives a view to trees outside.

Eliana Frost: Birds on a Wire
A necklace created by adding red and black elements to a bottle cap.

Zora Alleyne: Sangria
Mix of music notes, feathers, scribbles with an eye in the center

Mia Morales: You is EYE
Skateboard with Greek Mythology elements

Janelli Garcia: Helios

Kiana Pan: Man-made Witness

Nicolas Cabrera: Skullution Animation
Skull with an apple peering out from the scalp set on a gradient pink background with a red border

Yrva Desormeaux: The “Perfect” Student
Star night with yellow moon and text

Sarai Roman: First Love/ Late Spring
Slow 10 MPH under a bridge

Jonathan Pedraza: Pedrazaslow
Stacked carrots

Guadalupe Miranda: Raices
Spots, lines with a white background and a house in the middle.

Isabella Kenny: Home
Black workpants with white printed letters "CDD", shown to be designed by "Geneva Studios".

Rafael Villasenor: Prosperity by Geneva Studios
Small child with dark eyes and hair looking at the camera with figures behind

Yaretzi Cornelio: Angles
Orange room with gril and orange cat.

Jacqueline Montanez: Late Night Shift
A pen and color pencil illustration of a building, with people walking outside and the colorful word "Cuitzeo".

Giselle Zacarias: Mi Pueblito Magico
Disembodied eyes populate a red background with a spotlight focused on a small human figure

Karen Ramos: The Perspective.
A person's head is shown to be opened, containing another head inside.

Linda Bulik: INSIDE
3 story building

Ashley Calderon: Untitled
Backpack put into a shopping cart on a field of grass

Seamus Moore: Absurd
Turtle in blue water

Lia Rodriguez: How Can Tragedy Be Beautiful?

Donovan Chan: The Endless Now Duology
Set of 3 apartment complexes with a human female torso coming out of the top of the second building. Al in a monochromatic red color scheme

Nico Stafford: bodycomplex
A juxtaposition of different words and imagery relating to the police in black, white, and red.

Askia Bullie: Who do we call?
Person wearing grey hoodie and scoop neck shirt putting their hands through their hair

Tamia Criss: Tay
A digital depiction of a church with some elements being "incomplete" by being rendered in white.

Kimberly Arroyo: Untitled
Two faces on line work and dark background

Rei Lurie: Retro Emotions
Groups of birds huddled together in a cage, one bird in the center is missing feathers

Molly Fitzgerald: Crowded
Galactic imagery juxtaposed on folded squares and triangles composing a larger piece.

Nathaniel Ramirez: Space Travel
Black background with white outlines of a family

Sakari Zephier: Family Lines
Blue and purple plants and flowers layered to create a wave.

Jessica Krklus: Wave
Embroidered rose in its closed state against a slightly yellow tinted background.

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood
Clay doll house with windows and a candle.

Teresa Geschrey: Dollhaus
A golden decorated stage painted with acrylic and gouache.

Apolonia Garcia: Bystanders
A black and white photo of a person walking on a street between buildings on a snowy day.

Alyssa Calderon: Snowfall
A subject with decorations in her afro hairstyle, and party decorations laid out around her hair.

Ty-Carmel Elsa: Hair deco
Oranges of a portrait with glasses.

Amani Mohammad: Untitled
Bones represent fossil fuels going through an engine and dripping out at the bottom

John Davila: Extinction Installation Artwork
White dog sitting on couch in front of curtain and window

Rosalinda Dejesus: Prince
An embroidered rose in the blooming stage with a light yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence
Grey monotone building with bright yellow sun and graffiti style text that says "Brighton Park" and "Rockwell"

Mia Santoyo: Rockwell Street
Thick paint of blues and yellows with white clouds

Julia Micorek: Wish I Was There
Hand gripping a small bird in its palm

Molly Fitzgerald: Grasp

Magdalena Tomaszewski: Untitled
Digital elements drawn on top of a photo of a sketchbook with drawings next to a manga novel.

Jae Mccallum: EXml
A pen illustration of complex patterns portraying a coral reef.

Angela Batcheller: Psychedelic Coral Reef
Woman laying in a body of water wrapped in vines

Illiana Torres: Bluebellvine
A collage of different imagery and pieces of writing.

Jenavieve Savoy: Home
Penguin in a suit and hat

Cole Kirk: Who’s in Paris
A digital illustration of a bee on a red flower, against a blue cloudy sky.

Jack Clark: Bee
Cabinet with representations of different rooms inside

Macy O’Donnell: Rooms
Person with a yellow shirt and blue jeans in front of the planet Earth with a feather sticking out of its head.

Zania Watson: Take Me Back Home
Blue light with orange background

Nicolo Valentino: Half and Half
A gold box holding a clock, framed flower, plate, religious statue, and a bell

Nicki Ta: Goodwill
Tall figure curing with city.

Katie Kaukialo: Solitude Creates Peace of Mind
One side is with horse galloping across a field with dark blue sky and purple clouds. Other half is a drab sky with a helicopter overhead a barren field.

Daniel Barriera: Nature vs. Man-Made
3 buildings with blue sky

Ashley Calderon: Untitled
Black and white trees on a dusky desaturated blue sky

Christina Nasios: Traveling
Family of three with a blue silhouette of a father with a blue background colored in to mimic a child's drawing

Alexandra Force: Repressed Memories

Nicki Ta: Goodwill
A photo of beekeepers working at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Gianna Christensen: Honey, I’m Home
A person listening to music through earbuds facing the night sky.

Sarai Salinas: Home
Cats shown inside of the windows of a rocket in space, with planets and stars in the distance.

Amy Diamond: Extra-fur-estrial
Blue tones of a bedroom with toys

Miryam Garcia: Untitled

Jaritzi Villegas: PROVECHO!
Painting of a street in monochrome red

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 1
Green figure with pink flowers and vines.

Johanna Guerrero: Untitled

Chloe Mitchell: Childhood Home

Azriel Villanueva: Coffee Break
A colorful rendering of two faces meant to represent two perspectives of one person.

Nashaley Aragones: Untitled
A make-up look with blue hair resembling supernatural imagery.

Kevannah Berry: Alien superstar
Loteria card, pan dulce, with coffee and makeup.

Karina Gonzalez: Mamá

Isabella Romero: Flower
Person feeding a small campfire

Javier Martinez: Urban
Forest with fire

Lucia Urbaszewski: Burning Forest
Two old men sitting on a CTA with a grainy filter over top

Stephanie Mendoza: Antique Memories – Baldies
A metal piece that reflects Aztec symbolism and myth, with a red patina.

Melody Dorantes: El Poder del Amor (The Power of Love)
Person laying on a desk

Arlette Sanchez: No Context
A collage incorporating journal writing and photos juxtaposed against it.

Harrison Brennan: Luca all Over
Large deep ocean creature approaching a small fish in front of a stark white background.

August Santoro: Prey
A young hand reaching towards a blank white drink amongst detailed black and white renderings of different drinks.

Edwin Santana: Untitled
Moody depiction of trash flooding our waters

Kiana Pan: My Ocean, My Home
A detailed pen illustration of various elements related to Asian culture.

Jasmine Yau: Untitled
Tree with orange spirals with an gold paint.

Marianna Mosz: Family Tree
Dark blue storms with water.

Christina Nasios: Stormy Night
Large magenta tulips overhanging a small crayon-doodle image of the same flower

Olivia Kluska: Projections
Purple flowers

Guadalupe Miranda: Morada
Wooden board with dancer and flowers around her.

Jane Smith: Center Stage Roses
Paintings on various cut canvases that depict peoples' faces alike to ones they make in mirrors.

Jemma Wygodny: Mirrors
Vase half filled with blooming radiant flowers, and the other half with wilted ones.

Emily Chung: Racially Me
Alter with Virgin Mary and candles.

Marlen Hernandez: Untitled
Collage of a window view of a vespa outside, with indoor elements of a helmet on a table.

Elena Gerick: Bedroom View
View of someone holding up a camera through a public bike rack

Jathen Roman: View of Art
Little girl on a toy on the sidewalk

Jumani Rogers: Jurni’s Journey
Tryptic sunset, outline of cityscape, and butterflies.

Gabriela Murcia: Murcia_Gabriela
Two women hugging in black and white photo

Serena Coleman: Untitled
Person working on a table with pictures on the wall

Angelina Lemke: Untitled
A clay piece with a red crab outline on it.

Veronica Bastek: Crabby
An embroidered bloomed rose with a yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adulthood

Charlotte Foster: Us

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan
Person on their phone on the toilet with a scale, hair tie, towel, and hairbrush on the floor

Karina Vargas: Bathroom Break
Girl with a pink dress and lights

Anthony Hernandez: Niece’s Birthday Party
A sculpture of a hybrid between a raccoon and an otter.

Macy O’Donnell: Raccotter
Portrait of a woman of color

Tamia Criss: Internal Conflict
Comic book outline with oranges and people

Aidan Olson: Brother’s Quarrel
A digital illustration of a person with audio editing imagery within their head against an abstract pink background.

YosiYah YisraEL: Music in my mind
Collage work of a desert and horses with cowboys.

Agata Siwninska: A Trip
White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled
Drawing with color pencil with several items in a room

Kellyn Chavez: Untitled
Rapper Young Thug on two sides of the paper, one side he is upside down

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug
Airplane flies through clouds with buildings peering through and people pointing down at the plane

Harper Norman: Plane Travel
Girl with black background with stars.

Laura Solis: Night Traveler
Digital drawing of a person with a yellow jacket and a helmet with imagery inside it.

Cameron Chinn: Killie Billy
Illuminated restaurant signs in Chinatown.

Arianna Bodini: Chinatown Lights
Large greenery with pink tree and arch

Jovanny Sostenes: The Wedding
Grey skyline, Christmas tree with elf.

Camila Penaranda: My First Christmas
Red cardinal set on a stark black background

Garry Kuhlmann: Anger Incarnate
Close-up shot of an eye

Anais Jones: Happy
Valiant samurai on the back of a maip dinosaur

Nived Karthik: Maip Rider
Tree with small white figures and rain fall.

Emilia Mleczek: Rainfall

Jasmine Cline: Peace of Mind
Bright yellows, oranges, reds, and blacks used to show a cat sitting amongst different ingredients.

Ruby Reddy: Sous-Chef
A chair with a blanket draped over the back, with a notebook and pencil on the seat.

Zhouqi Shao: All Is Ready
Older woman sewing designs on fabric

Saskya Lema Lema: Warmi Awana
Abstract blue, yellow, and red cubes stacked on one another

Adnan Muminhodzic: Watercolor
Angry dog look down at bowl outlined in green with the words "Super Groovy" plastered in front

Daniel Salas-Alvarez: Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You
Eyeball with mushroom, butterfly and mouth piece.

Lyric Roy: Untitled
Disembodied hands hold up a crinkled paper inside a ring of bright white light.

Alex Land: The Mirrored Map
A sculpture of a frog resting on a lily-pad, within a lily-pad shaped pond.

Emily Chung: Leafy Harmony
Paper cut out of pink and blue girl

Galia Quezada: Untitled
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