2021 Teacher Appreciation Arts Exhibition – CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

Accordion on a chair

Jason Betke: My Father’s Accordion

A variety of people with images collaged as their bodies and hair, all learning.

Elena Diadenko: Education is Power

Mint green rectangular paper on top of fence and roots drawn in pencil.

Nicole Dudik: Interrupted

Painting of melancholy Buster Keaton wearing a hat.

Ivan Segarra: Sad Buster

3 pictures of a shallow glass bowl with abstract patterns of lines and dots in greens.

Gina Szulkowski: Bowl 14

3 hoops with yellow post-it note like squares with text embroidered on them.

Rachel Fenker: Notes

Amber Leitsch: Csardas

Devin T. Hanson: Coat Hanger Mugs

Black and white drawing of female torso.

Tamara Chrystyna Reay: Fertile Bloom

Painting of black French Bulldog on a yellow background.

Emily Calderon: Frenchie

Bears and geese near a mountain lake.

Richard F. Sprague II: Bear Lake

Painting of a donut covered in black and white spiral frosting.

Elizabeth Cornell: Hypnotic Glaze

Tracy L. Johnson: Question What You See

A psychedelic tree made of swirls and curls on a blue sky background.

Erin Wynn: Family Tree

Kimberly Harper-Young: Blue Blast

Abstract painting with deep blues and greens.

Cathleen Andes: Untitled

Pink flowers with white geometric lines on top.

Tamara Chrystyna Reay: Lattice Bloom

Person with dark hair, glasses, nose ring, and tattoos sits with a guitar in front of a staircase.

Terence Morrow: In Closing

Benjamin Arvan: What Would You Say Now?

Man with large mustache in purple light

Scott Westerman: Episode 4: “Yet There Is Method In’t.”

Csilla Kosa: The Opponent

Emily L. Steffen: Ostara

Black person looking to their right

Alex Goldin: Color Study for Summer, July

Black and white photograph of a person in a striped shirt at a handloom, weaving.

Daniel Gomez: Morelia

Simeko Washington: Healing Through Art

Painting of crow in green field.

Francisco Liam Nuno: crow painting 2020 study

Karla Russell: Veteran Teacher Tackles 1st Day of Remote Learning

Lekesha Coleman: Feelings

Kitchen counter with yellow, salmon, and pink rainbow. Cow skull hangs on the wall.

Sydney Walters: Heirloom Rainbow

Kristina Simanis-Laimins: Sol Duc Falls

Mary Rodriguez: Ancestors

Jazmine Cooper: Thriller with a TWIST

Juana Duran Charicata: Soy Mis Antepasadas

Black and white dog hanging their head out a car window.

Richard F. Sprague II: A Saturday Drive

Benjamin Arvan: Something New

Black screen with barely visible yellow abstractions floating on top.

Amanda Suckow: I Am Enough

A clump of light purple fingers reaching up out of the center of a plant.

Fay Jenson: Growth

Painting of tree trunk with small branches in the foreground. Behind is a large body of blue water and a densely forested island.

Paula Matela: Big Island

Blue line drawing of people in warn hats and coats recording something on their cell phones.

Gabriel Mejia: Nothing Makes a Crowd Like a Crowd

James Brooks: Oceanarium

Ingrid Swenson: Be Present

Vivian Sakellariou: Sehkmet

Matthew Bozik: Evolve

Linda Wojtowicz: Untitled

Person in boxing ring holding water bottle. Coach stands behind them with a white towel on their shoulder

Csilla Kosa: Protect Yourselves At All Times

Drawing of a pair of green shoes with sky for the insole.

Colin Ross Cosgrove: Next to You

Drawing of brown and red toy train.

Trey Martin: Confine

Vivian Sakellariou: We are all Made of Stars

Nude woman from the back surrounded by large plant leaves.

Tracy L. Johnson: Savannah

Collage of sepia-toned photos of phonograph with person in a checked top shouting into the cone. There is an iridescent background.

Annamaria Castellucci Cabral: Loud

Abstract composition of shapes.

Lisa Macri: Outside

Watercolor painting on circle canvas with abstract shapes in neutral and pastel tones

Alice Eleni Costas: Unwind

Person with dark hair, glasses, nose ring, and tattoos sits with a guitar in front of a staircase.

Terence Morrow: Ryan’s Hope – By the Sword

Mary Rodriguez: Run The Ghouls

Ingrid Swenson: Carl F. Becker

10 flautists superimposed on a digital winter background. There is a cartoon snowman in the foreground. The conductor, dressed in black and wearing a black hat, is on the right.

Monty Adams: St. Petersburg Sleigh Ride

Kristina Simanis-Laimins: Mittens at Moonrise

Two older people sitting on a bench, looking at a statue in the middle of a pond of two young people holding an umbrella.

Emily Calderon: Fountain of Youth

Felicia Kyle: Streaks of Color

Collage of woman wearing a mask and holding a book.

Krystal Grover-Webb: Learning Beyond the Mask

Person playing piano and blonde person with black dress standing in front of piano, singing

Amber Leitsch: Movin’ the Line

Mark Bennett: Charlie

A pagoda surrounded by a surreal landscape of plants and light.

Tina Nishida: Jackson Park on the Move

Darrell Pulliam: And still I Rise

Marbled canvas with reds, blues, and yellows.

Cheryl Martin: Chain Reaction

Amanda Suckow: What Has Changed For You?

Painting of yellow-green skull missing lower half of jaw.

Elizabeth Cornell: Yellow Skull

Abstract quilt with earth-toned fabric

Amanda Nadig: We Are Going To Destroy This House

Abstract painting of blacks, grays, and whites.

Shannon Foster: We Gather

Digital painting, zoomed in on tree trunks with orange leaves.

Cheryl Reynolds-Fefles: Forest

Drawing of the El Train and Chicago Ave stop.

Chelsea Clementz: Untitled

Frank Cademartori: Too Much Water

3 people wearing red Chicago Teacher Union clothes, chanting. One with a bullhorn and sign that says "On strike against unfair labor practices."

Gabriel Mejia: Shut It Down

Photograph of train tracks in front of old industrial building.

Michael Stewart: The Railway

Jennifer Trejo: Schwinning

Shannon Stuchel: Swirly Sky

A pile of white sneakers.

Patrick Miceli: Untitled

Ivan Segarra: Body Electric

Person in suit playing a mallet instrument. They stand in front of a screen with digital shapes projected on it.

Jordan Kamps: 02_14

Painting of old man with long gray hair and brown shirt.

Quintin Nadig: Richard Foreman

Egg with top cracked off, in a grove of birch trees.

Ulises Rivero: El último Huevo (The last Egg)

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