Chicago Public Schools Class of '22

ART on THE MART's Spring 2022 program featured a collaboration between Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and eight graduating seniors. The artworks for the projection consisted of self-portraits and were collected in conjunction with CPS’s All-City Visual Arts program. Following a selection process, eight CPS seniors who submitted to the All-City High School Visual Arts Exhibition were selected to have their work featured on the façade of THE MART. Students’ artwork was selected based on a score given for technical skill, craftmanship, originality and student voice. 

Featured student artworks included: 

• Beaded Ears by Tiffany Delgado | Von Steuben Metropolitan High School
• My Hair is Gold by Jimmilee Kabba | Lake View High School
• My Happy Girl by Mia Neiman | Amundsen High School
• Loving Hands by Ethan Rodriguez | Nicholas Senn High School
• Bolanos_Judith3 by Judith Bolanos | Ombudsman Chicago South Campus
• Self Portrait by Robin Lockhart | Lindblom Math and Science Academy
• Concealment by Rachel DeVeyra | Chicago High School for the Arts
• Wandering Eye by Frida Mejia | Westinghouse College Prep

An original musical score, composed, produced, engineered and performed by Liam Lupescu of Nicholas Senn High School, accompanied the piece. 

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is dedicated to providing a high-quality education to all students, beginning with the District’s free full-day preschool programming for four-year-old scholars and continuing through neighborhood, magnet and selective-enrollment elementary schools that provide a rigorous K-8 education with schools that specialize in the fine arts, world language and culture, dual language, STEM, International Baccalaureate (IB), classical programs, and more. The rising District-wide freshmen-on-track and high school graduation rates reflect the hard work of the CPS community, including families, staff, and students across 635 schools. CPS celebrates the diversity of its more than 322,000 students who cite 182 home languages.