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.

Henry Colehower: Rollerblade Mania

Riley Tuider: Stacking Cups

Chai-Ling: SenDa+Mei+3

Anonymous: King Cobra
snowy bird

Jack Sora: Snowy Bird
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

Isaac Davila: Imaginary Creatures

Louis Swingley: Buzzsaw

Anonymous: Equal
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

Yolanda Perez: The Unexpected Bird
wine and fruit

Anonymous: December 24

Noah Singleton: Neighborhood

Elias Bailey: Elias’s Pirate Map
snowy small town at night.

Anonymous: Snowy Night
separation

Pearlin Melodia SamPaul Jeevitha: Separation
city

Mehaan Saxena: The Boy In The Big Town

Kyla Gayfield: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Milana Dmitrileva: Winter Cardnals

Anonymous: Acadia National Park

Anonymous: Robot World

Amy Iniguez: Sleepy Starry Dragon
A venus fly trap is drawing as a character with eyes. Two human legs dangle out of it.

Anonymous: Audrey II

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

Anonymous: A Cat of Many Colors

Anonymous: The Pattern of Zen

Anonymous: Coco With Pancake
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

Klaus Kirkwood: The Painting
Pencil drawing of two center flowers with leaves and smaller flowers around it.

Caitlynn Chiu: Sketching Flowers
ladybugs

Bennett Trinh: Lady Bugs

Nevin Banu: Man In the Rain

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

Ivy Nordlund: Blue Jay
Woman with green hair and a purple dress holds a globe over a purple background.

Mehin Qasimov: Mother Nature
Sharpie portrait of Frida Kahlo's head and neck drawn over a green and red floral background.

Anonymous: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

Sophia Manzo: Untitled

Anonymous: The Yellow Sponges
crazy sonic

Chauncey Kennedy Jr.: Crazy Sonic
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

Anonymous: Beatrice
a walk in the forest

CLAIRE MUN: A Walk in the Forest

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture

Anonymous: 3-D Dragon Mask
Nighttime streetscape

Samantha Kraus: Kenopsia

Anonymous: Unicycle

Sofie Yang: A Lion’s Tale
Drawing of a large tree trunk with large protruding branches.

Jeremy Sanchez: Strength as Strong as a Tree

Braylen Clark: Self-Portrait

Bennett Carter Pangan: Rays

Anonymous: Tree of Life
Clay modeled after 3 ancient Egyptian people.

Ella Shingleton-Duyka: Ancient Egyptians

Sofie Yang:#Stop Asian Hate
Drawing of a dog. ON his skin are holes which reveal various body parts like teeth and eyes

Mina Miranda: Demon Dog
Eagle

Uriel Salcedo: El AGUILA ES LIBRE
Pencil drawing of a tulip tied up into a bouquet.

Ella Chenzhen: Untitled
mountains

Anonymous: Mountain Landscape

Soup

Anonymous: Skyy Light Skyy Bright
Pink and pencil outlined Hello Kitty world. A blue sky with white clouds is behind.

Anonymous: Linescape

Hannah Boegen-Stork: Sunset Tree

Terri Hartman: Untitled

Sherie All: Fresh Watermelon
An orange lion with a long tail stands next to a gold first place cup.

Elizabeth Ho: Lion Monkey’s Win

Soren Hoover: The Raccoon’s Happy For A Ride
Drawing of a bird with many different wings all extending out of the main body.

Taisuke Uto: Seraphim
watercolor lion

Kaylen Parks: The Lion #4

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Maja Thanos: Crazy Spring Feelings
we rise

Sinead Talty: 7th grade Maya Angelou collaboration
Drawing of a large green tree with yellow light shinning down on a blue background.

Lucas Bautista: The Day of Life

Anonymous: The Jungle

Anonymous: Winter Cabin in the Woods

Anonymous: Nerve Wracking
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

Jeremy Kole: Dog Sitting
Alien Rhapsody

Sarah Anderson: Alien Rhapsody

Anonymous: Fred’s Bad Day
bob ross

Leonardo Piccolo: Sleeping Nature
self portrait

Rae Jones: Self Portrait #3

Anonymous: Untitled
comic strip

Amee Shah: Ohio Be Like…

Anonymous: Pink Punk

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a cozy, empty coffee shop.

Nectaria Nedelea: Coffee House

Anonymous: The Intruder

Anonymous: Sunset at the ocean

Alyra Neely: Just Love

Anonymous: See Red City

Anonymous: Burning Candle

Yupawadee Ruechasoontorn: My pets and favorable flowers.

Anonymous: Agya The Wasp
Pipe cleaners twisted together to make a 3D sculpture.

Anonymous: The Figures 1

Angelina Berg: Down By the River

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Barbie is colored in like a skeleton and wears a blue and grey dress.

Genesis Carvajal: Barbie Re-Designed for My Culture
Canvas is covered in paint. Abstract with colors peach, brown, blue, and green.

Anonymous: She Sees

Lucy Brown: Animal Planet
A skeleton dressed in a cowboy hat and blue shirt is painted holding a coke bottle.

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco

Aria Richardson: Sunny Cat Magic Trash
Pencil drawing of 3 girls' faces

Alexandra Serafin: Babymetal
A sunset over a lake.

Deeron Holmes: Vice Island
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

Anonymous: Cardinal

Elijah Garcia: Mi Abuelo y YO en Jalisco

Anonymous: Journey

Sawyer Elkhatib: Little Deer
An open house with many rooms lies on a gold background. Each room has different items within.

Zoey El-Mofty: Cabinet of Curiosity

Terri Hartman: Untitled

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

Catherine Chai: A Broadway Theater Mask

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Pathways

Anonymous: Mirror Invention

Naomi Fehr: This is Mary Jackson

Edmond Zhao: Untitled
Shaded flower and mushroom scene with a rabbit. Many colors.

Elizabeth Konior: Untitled
the unknown

Michael O’Neill: The Unkown
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

Helena Mucha: Daffodil Of Life

Anonymous: Fruit Snail

Reyna Ladsariya: Diya

Ella Lewis: Galaxy

Symphani Torres: Yearbook Page
bunny in spring

Mark Borsos: Bunny in Springtime
Digital artpiece with many characters and objects like a ukulele and a melting pizza layered over each other in bright colors.

Anonymous: Stuck

Anonymous: Eyes

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

Anonymous: Viva la Raza

Linda Tang: Star
ava

Ava Shirley: Bouquet

Anonymous: Scarecrow in the night

Anonymous: Moon Dragon
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
wellingford

Isabel Wallingford: Untitled

Anonymous: Lunar Festival
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
Woman with spear in blue outfit stands in front of a red background.

Lola Dale: Fry
Drawing of a puppy with long floppy ears lying down.

Jeremy Sanchez: Puppy Eyes
strong women

Eummani Galaviz: Celebrating Women of Color
Brown, mostly vertical sculpture.

Anonymous: Wave

Mason Green: Untitled
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: The Outcome of Our Alliance

Antoinette Nehru Pangan: Hopping
papercraft

Hailey Rodden: Sky the Crazy

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

Rana Vaccaro: Spring Dragon Skull

Yinu Wang: Color in darkness
Figures in front of a brick wall.

Devin Nieves: Haring X Monsters
Paper is split into 3 sections with detailed characters drawn in pen on each. Red and yellow marker accents.

Anonymous: The Three Sages

Anonymous: Untitled
drawing

Charles Keeble: Untitled

Anonymous: Lion

Anonymous: Zentangled
A character with sunglasses on a background of rainbow colors.

Jaliyah Stubblefield Digital Overlay
box

Susie Kirkwood: THE PAINTING
Self portrait a boy with a neutral facial expression on white paper.

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Chloe Barahona: Ndebele House Diorama

Anonymous: Survivalists
Watercolor and illustration of a tiger.

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

Anonymous: Jonah
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
Notan

Ruilan He: Nature Notan Design #2

Emanuel Macias: SCREAMS

Anonymous: Landscape Collage
Lots of legs

Frank Miller: Rainbow Monster with 1000 Legs
Blue, pink, red, and yellow sunset is painted on four quadrants of cardboard.

Sofia Cancio: Magical Sunsets
lady face

Corinne Windham: Always perfect
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

Livi Williams: OVERWHELMED

Anonymous: The Rappin’ Canines
Black and white photo of water disturbed in a bowl and spilling out.

Eric Arias-Montoya Jr: Pureza Perturbada
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

Anonymous: Untitled
sculpture

Jake Dentino: Robots

Sherrie All: Chocolate Dipped Strawberry
Abstract ink pen drawing. Black lines cross different sections of the page which are each colored in different ways.

Anonymous: Suspect

Anonymous: The Lady

Meghan Gonnissen: Owl

Logan Asais: Unikitty

Reagan Johnson: Flat Flowers

Anonymous: Spring in Ukraine
stuffed animals

Hailey Rodden: Untitled
Sculpture of a skateboarder on a ramp.

Will Bubness: Blaze
Maya

Maya Vinsel: Untitled

Sherrie All: Mandarine Orange

Samantha Zhao: Bodies of Water

Keagan Hyland: Untitled

Sophie Padilla: Untitled

Anonymous: Dragonfly
Acrylic painting of a landscape during sunrise.

Anonymous: Beautiful Morning
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