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Colorful, intricate drawing of a cityscape featuring bridges, varied buildings in warm tones, and blue-roofed houses, conveying a vibrant urban feel.
Exhibition

P. S. Art 2025: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids

OverviewExhibition Objects
Oil pastel, watercolor paint, pastel pencil self portrait of a very young girl. She is white with curly red hair, and she wears a purple head band and a yellow dress with red spots. Her hands and arms are drawn as black sticks and extend left and right from her body. She stands in front of a blue and purple- blue splotchy watercolor background.
Self-Portrait
Ramona Vacanti
Grade: PreK
Watercolor on paper side- profile illustration of an automobile facing left. The outline of the vehicle is painted in thick black strokes, and the tires are painted in thick gray strokes. The front side of the car beneath the hood is painted red. The area around the driver side window is outlined in brown. The driver side door is painted in three horizontal strips of yellow above gray and green. The back of the car behind the passenger carriage appears to be loaded with blue and brown cargo. The vehicle sits on green grass topped off with a strip of brown soil. Blue dots are shown scattered against a faint sky colored off- white.
Car
Yamileth Mamani Villarroel
Grade: K
Tempera paint stamping print with water color paint on paper depicting a colorful urban landscape. The sky above is colored with alternating turquoise and salmon colored wavy horizontal strips with a red sun with black brush strokes drawn at right. Golden X- shaped stars glitter in the sky. A gold colored building with a blue window and red A -frame roof is shown at left. At right, the profile of a yellow double decker bus with red double door in the middle is shown. The top floor of the bus is orange with yellow and blue windows. A blue building with a pair of purple A- frame roofs is shown behind the bus. A row of black plant stems with blue, orange, and green flowers appears in the foreground at the bottom of the image.
City with Rainbow Sky
Patrick Wu
Grade: K
Mixed media self portrait of a young girl. She is depicted with long black hair that extends downward in stalks on either side of her head like an extended paper umbrella. Her skin is brown and her eyes are rectangular. Her mouth is depicted as wide and red with double rows of white rectangular teeth. She wears a peach colored shirt decorated with yellow squares with pale orange frames. The background is magenta, decorated with a horizontal row of green dots above her head and a vertical column of black outlined rectangles to the right.
It’s Me, Kylie!
Kylie David
Grade: 1
Tempera on cardstock self portrait of a young boy. He is Black and has short cropped brown curly hair. He faces the viewer with his mouth slightly open. He wears a yellow collared shirt and stands in front of a bright blue background.
Self-Portrait
Prince Brathwaite
Grade: 1
Mixed media sculpture of several people relaxing at a public swimming pool. The base of the sculpture is a 6 by 6 inches square. On one half of the square, four smiling people sculpted from dry clay float face up on the surface of a blue swimming pool. On the other half of the square, four smiling people lie on towels and sunbathe next to the pool. Two people at one end of the pool deck lie facing sideways on a towel decorated with valentine's hearts. Two people at the other end of the deck lie facing vertically on a rainbow towel decorated with three gray sharks. Three colorful pool- side umbrellas are set in a column at the edge of the pool from one end of the deck to the other.
Summer Chillin’
Muhammad Ahsan, Adely Andujar, Angel Cuautle Coyote, Analeah Reese, Timothy Rodriguez Jr., Myreen Sabeen, Oliver Salim, and Maymunah Shahzadi
Grade: 2
Paper collage showing a city landscape at night. The sky is black. A white airplane flies from right to left. A crescent moon shaped like a letter C is shown at the top right of the image. At bottom left is a blue building with red windows, followed by a tall red building with brown window frames. Next is a tall, spire- shaped yellow building with a long red vertical line in the middle. A pair of shorter buildings are at center, one purple, the other blue, each with red wavy vertical strips in the middle. At far right is a gray building with a purple A- frame roof. A red street is shown in the foreground. A car with horizontal multicolored stripes travels from left to right. At the right side of the image, a large yellow vehicle also travels from left to right.
Cityscape at Night
Jacobo Gomez
Grade: 2
Oil pastel illustration of a row of buildings at center with green waves of water below and a teal sky and large blue raindrops above. White and pink clouds are shown at left. A rainbow arcs across the sky in the center, and a huge sun with concentric yellow and orange rings appears at right. A red building is shown at left, followed by a large green building with a dark yellow roof. A thin building made up of several rows of three column multicolored squares is shown at center. Further right is a brown building with a purple roof and an olive colored building decorated with a red ringed valentines' heart on the roof.
A New World
Arielle Buckley
Grade: 2
Oil pastel illustration of a duck shown in profile facing left. It stands on green grass under a blue sky with a yellow sun at top right. The duck has a black bill, yellow legs, brown wings, a white body, a black tail, an orange and brown ring around its neck, and a yellow head. The duck's left eye is pointed upward.
The Quackaquan
Isa Erkey
Grade: 2
Oil pastel illustration of a panda facing the viewer with tall green stalks of bamboo behind it. The white portions of the panda's fur are drawn in dense, detailed strokes. The panda has a wide eyed expression.
Panda in the Wild
Fatima Capulin
Grade: 3
Mixed media illustration of various animals in a natural setting. A large, partially cropped orange sun shines from the top left corner of the image. The sky is colored violet at top and purple at bottom. A large blue and red toucan flies with its wings spread in the top center of the illustration. One yellow and two orange butterflies float in a horizontal row above the toucan. A tree with yellow green leaves bearing red fruit is shown at bottom left, sprouting upward from green grass. A bottom center, a coiled brown snake sits next to a large, orange petaled flower to the right. A frog sits next to a green leafed plant at bottom right. At far right, a male and female lion are perched on the thick branch of a tall brown tree which extends all the way out the top edge of the image.
Untitled
Zoya Arsiwalla
Grade: 3
Mixed media self portrait of a young girl. She is shown with a light complexion and bristled dark hair atop her head. Her face is oval shaped and her mouth is opened with her tongue visible. She wears a red and white horizontally striped shirt crossed by a wide row of blue vertical paint strokes. The background of the image is a dark, cloudy blue.
Reema
Reema Nassir
Grade: 4
Oil pastel and watercolor painting of a city shore line reflected in the waters below. The sky above is a faint, cloudy teal, with an airplane at center and a helicopter at right. A partially cropped yellow sun shines down from the top right corner of the image. The city skyline is composed of many buildings in various colors such as brown, blue, yellow, and orange. The shimmering, mirrored reflections of the buildings appear in the water in the bottom half of the painting.
Cityscape Reflection
Emilia Falu
Grade: 4
Mixed media abstract painting of a snowy landscape featuring tall black trees, daubs of white snow and blue leaves, a blue green sky, and the suggestion of a pale moon and a faint yellow sun in the background.
Snow
Eden Lin
Grade: 5
Pencil, Sharpie, colored pencil, and oil pastel illustration of a dense urban landscape. Several rows of small brown, yellow, and blue buildings sit at the bottom of the image. Behind them is a river with a suspension bridge above it. Behind the bridge are several rows of additional and mostly brown buildings with a few blue, red, and yellow structures included. An even larger suspension bridge is shown behind these secondary rows of buildings. The top third of the image is filled with tall skyscrapers of various shapes and colors. A white airplane flies from left to right in front of the skyscrapers.
Concrete Valley
Muchu Lin
Grade: 5
Tempera abstract self portrait of a young girl reminiscent of the style of Pablo Picasso. Her face is drawn in an amorphous shape almost to the point of being unrecognizable, except for un- symmetrical eyes and a downturned blue mouth. Both the girl's face and the background are made up of various colors and gradients including red, yellow, and blue, with small accents of green and violet. The shapes comprising the girl's face are outlined with thin, curvy black strokes. Her abstract hair appears to taper down on the left in a black shape and on the right in a cloudy blue shape. Her elongated neck appears peach colored, and the top of her head resembles an abstract violet colored cap.
My World
Maria Agudelo
Grade: 5
Digital drawing on photo paper is a cartoon illustration of nine children standing in a line, or row, with a tenth child at far right shown as a completely black silhouette with a white question mark drawn upon its head. The nine other children are drawn as a variety of genders, ethnicities, hair styles, and outfits.
Adriel’s Kid Life
Adriel Vasquez
Grade: 6
Watercolor painting of a dark, black mansion perched on the edge of a cliff atop a dark gray hill at night, under a dark blue sky and pale moon. The house is three storeys tall and filled with windows emitting yellow light. A wide semi- circular fence with a large, open front gate surrounds the house.
Spooky House on a Hill Silhouette
Zipporah Winger
Grade: 7
Watercolor, pencil, and ink illustration of a small red brick building with a green awning above the first floor. The front of the first floor is the entrance to a restaurant. The first floor façade is white, with a brown door, a window, and a sandwich board sign to the left. Green shrubs rise out and above a brown fence on the left side of the building, and a light brown three storey brick building sits to the right.
Dumpling House
Lydia Batista
Grade: 7
Colored pencil illustration of the center of a busy urban intersection, with a street in the middle receding toward the horizon in one point perspective. Numerous decorative spheres, mostly red, white, and blue, are scattered throughout the drawing. The artist calls these spheres "country balls." The balls represent people. A McDonald's restaurant and the green iron- fenced stairway to a subway station are shown at the left corner of the intersection. A Burger King restaurant and an enclosed subway elevator are shown at the right corner of the intersection. At the top of the image, a cropped yellow sun shines down upon a blue sky filled with pointy blue stars that resemble asterisks.
Countryball New York City
Jeshua Carmona
Grade: 7
Watercolor and marker illustration of many curved and overlapping thick lines of various colors, such as red, green, yellow, and cyan. Most of the thick lines are outlined in thin black strokes. The overlapping lines suggest an arterial system, and also form the impression of a map, possibly a subway map. A large scattershot pattern of chaotic black dots overlaps the curved lines in the center of the illustration.
Maps
Jayden Sanchez
Grade: 7
Vector illustration of a leather reclining chair sitting in the foreground in front of several rows of fully stocked book shelves inside a Barnes and Noble book store. All the visible objects in the image have been rendered with thick black outlines. In addition to the outlines, the pale brown reclining chair in the foreground is made up of dozens of small, diamond- shaped mosaic tiles, also rendered with thick black outlines. The ceiling overhead and floor below are also drawn with oulined mosaic tiles.
My Favorite Place to Read
Emmanuelle Esdicul
Grade: 8
Acrylic marker self portrait of a middle school aged girl. She is drawn in a colorful abstract style with a Dia de los Muertos influence. The right side of her face is yellow, the left side is pink. She wears a pink bow tied above her forehead. Her neck and right shoulder are red, and her raised left arm is green and ringed with four black chevron stripes. A black valentine- shaped heart is drawn on her chest with short white lines extending from the top. Her right eye is black with a yellow pupil. Her left eye is white with a blue pupil. A vertical pattern of various colorful shapes extends from top to bottom on the left side of the image.
A Complicated Mind
Motasem Ikhmayes
Grade: 8
Digital illustration presented in a wide horizontal rectangular format. The left half of the rectangle has a red background, and the right half of the rectangle has a blue background. At left, an adolescent Black girl faces right, but looks downward at an open book held in her hands. She wears a blue, short- sleeved shirt decorated with light colored squiggle patterns. At right, another adolescent Black girl faces left, pointing left with her right hand while her left hand is held on her hip. She wears a black and gray sweatshirt with a hoodie pulled up over her head.
Cayla and Maddy in the Library
Madison Stewart and Cayla Wetters
Grade: 8
Black and white linocut print showing a framed head- and- shoulders portrait of a black silhouetted head facing upward and to the right. The black fill on the silhouetted head is periodically broken up by sketchy, white cross- hatched lines.
After Elizabeth Catlett
Aubrii Parks
Grade: 8
Pen and ink illustration of the corner of a three storey building centered in three- point perspective. All the linework is drawn in varying shade of blue ink. The building itself has an awning above the first floor, and looks like it was constructed in the Nineteen Thirties, if not earlier. Two cars are parked on either side of the building's corners. Both cars also appear old- fashioned, as if built in the Nineteen Thirties. Further down each cross street, an additional three storey building is shown on either side of the main building in the foreground.
A Glimpse of the Past
Maria Vallejo Aviles
Grade: 8
Paper collage illustration of the interior of a bar, with the red surface top of the bar table drawn in one- point perspective, receding toward a pair of white windows set upon a black wall. The interior walls of the bar are colored black, except for an orange hanging lamp above and a large mirror on the wall to the right, broken up by the black silhouettes of bottles sitting on three shelves. At left, a white customer with black hair and an orange shirt rests his left hand upon the bar. At right, a bald bartender in a blue shirt rest his left hand on the bar, facing the customer. A white bottle with a black label sits on the red bar next to the bartender.
The Bar
Joel Cruz
Grade: 8
Oil pastel impressionist painting of Astoria Park, showing a red sailboat on a blue river in front of a gray tiered arch bridge. Green bushes with red blooms are shown on the far side of the river, and a tall green tree is shown on the near side along the river bank. The sky above is blue, with a red and orange setting sun on the distant horizon.
Sailing
Lara Chan
Grade: 8
Colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic painting of a single female figure with two heads. She is white with light brown hair styled in a bob on each of her heads. White multi- pointed stars are on both sides of her cheeks. She holds a barbed spear in her right hand which is aimed downward to the right and impaling the skull of a skeleton in front of her. The skeketon has its arms raised in defense. The two- headed girl wears a green late- medieval outfit with a black and white checkered jester's crown above and behind her heads. An ornately decorated circle floats behind her which resembles a large net. The background is composed of stars seen between dark, brown, leafless tree trunks against a dark green sky.
Cure for Me
Kelvin Diaz
Grade: 9
Colored pencil on Bristol paper illustration of a multi- tiered set of concrete staircases ascending at slightly different angles from the foreground to the distant top rear of the image. The staircases are flanked at left by a tree on ground level and a gray concrete building further up the stairs. At right, tall poles are mounted at ground level with a gray brick wall further up the steps. Green foliage acts as a canopy above the staircases at left and right. A pale glow of light emerges between the foliage at the top of the illustration.
Summer
Jianyue (Evelyn) Tan
Grade: 9
Color photo of Sixth Avenue in Manahattan taken in one- point perspective with the eye level on the ground, directly on top of a sidewalk grate that recedes to the horizon. The dark silhouette of a pigeon stands on the grate at the middle of the photo. Tall buildings, slightly out of focus, rise to the left and right on the horizon line. The sky between the buildings is a pale gray blue. Blurry vehicle lights form a row on the horizon below a traffic light mounted on a pole. At right, the dark silhouetted figure of a person stands further down on the sidewalk grate, a few feet behind the pigeon.
New Perspective
Zahra Jenkins
Grade: 10
Colored pencil on paper illustration of a bowl of Asian food, including white meat, yellow noodles, green vegetables, and a red spoon dipped into clear broth. The entire image is drawn with extreme versimiltude in a photo- realistic style.
Nourishing My Soul
Vivian He
Grade: 10
Charcoal on paper black and white photo- realistic self portrait of an adolescent Asian girl facing the viewer. Her long wavy hair falls beneath the shoulders, and is drawn in finely detailed strokes which cast elaborate patterns of light and shadow upon her nose and face.
The Light Is Coming
Jovia Lin
Grade: 10
Black ink drawing of the intricate steel spire of the Eiffel Tower rising up into the sky, as viewed looking upward from the ground below, almost directly beneath the tower's base.
Eiffel Tower
Andy Shi
Grade: 10
Oil on canvas painting of an adolescent Asian youth wearing glasses and a yellow open- neck shirt, gazing upward at night while standing in an urban environment flanked by tall, brown, brick buildings to the left and right. In the distant horizon at the center of the image, the pale blue silhouette of an extremely tall building rises to the top of the painting. The shape of the tall, distant building suggests the Empire State Building. The person standing at the bottom center of the painting has a white rat on the right shoulder and a white pigeon on the left shoulder. The youth's face is illuminated dramatically from below, as if by a flashlight.
Concrete Jungle
Cindy Wu
Grade: 11
Paint and paper abstract impressionist self portrait of a Black adolescent male. He is shown facing the viewer and wearing black framed glasses and a bright blue shirt. He has short cropped black hair, and the almost fully obscured black background is covered in short strokes of white, red, and occasional daubs of green.
Samin
Samin Islam
Grade: 11
Oil on canvas painting of several people observing a full solar eclipse in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. All the people are wearing safety glasses and are looking upward and to the right. In the foreground, three people sit on a park bench: a gray haired white man at left, a gray haired woman at right, and further right and a partially cropped- out woman with long dark hair. In the distance, a young white male wearing short and a t- shirt reclines on the wide open lawn. Further back, another person appears to be sitting on a chair beneath a blanket. A line of trees is shown behind this seated person. The semi- dark lighting and high- contrast shadows in the painting are indicators of the eclipse conditions.
Eclipse in Prospect Park
Mara Popa
Grade: 11
Acrylic on wood illustration of several young Black males walking through a dimly lit walled corridor. At center right in the foreground, a young Black male faces the viewer. He wears a red hood on his head and a white coat. A pale light from above faintly illuminates a support pillar in the background.
Posted Up
East Sisay
Grade: 12
Digital illustration of a cross- sectioned urban environment drawn in one- point perspective. Various elements in the scene are shown cut open to reveal their interiors. At left and right, two enslosed subway tunnels, each with trains, flank a two- lane road with a park and sidewalks in the middle. Above the two- lane road is a supermarket, and above the supermarket small figures are shown walking across a rooftop made of skylight windows or solar panels. In the distance toward the horizon, two cross- sectioned tall buildings rise at left and right, with the interior floors visible through the cut- away view. On the horizon at center is a tall, T- shaped platform. In the far distance, a row of green trees bedecked with wind turbines connects the tall buildings at right and left.
Sectional Perspective Collage
Ashley Chen
Grade: 12
Pen and ink and colored pencil illustration in muted gray and beige tones of a massive leviathan whale rising out of roiling watery waves. At left is a clipper ship, which appear miniscule compared to the whale. Several cooling towers and smoke stacks from a nuclear power plant rise up from the waves, but these too appear very small next to the massive whale.
Creation Groans with Pain
Jean Carlos Grullon
Grade: 12
Oil on canvas and embroidery representational painting of a narrow corridor inside the entrance to a home, illustrated in one- point perspective with eye level set on the floor. A white boy in the forground crouches with his right knee touching the floor and his back turned toward the viewer, but his head is turned to the left and he looks over his shoulder directly at the viewer. He has dark hair and wears what appears to be a dark suit. His left foot touches the floor, and he is either putting on or removing a blue sneaker shoe. A tall standing mirror on the floor to his left shows the reflection of a small white boy with blond hair in the distance, wearing a blue t- shirt and gray shorts. He also appears to be either putting on or removing shoes. A white door is shown behind him. To the right of the older boy in the foreground, a staircase rises up to the second floor.
New Shoes
Shay Killeen
Grade: 12
Oil on canvas painting that shows an elderly woman fleeing from a catastrophic scene behind her. She runs from left to the right foreground. She has short gray hair and wears round glasses, a pale green sweater, an orange shirt, and a short red skirt. Behind her a billowing, massive cloud of gray smoke rises from the bottom to the midpoint of the painting. A large yellow construction crane tower appears to be collapsing in the distance. Two tall, dark, billowing smoke stacks belch gray clouds behind the crane. At the left midpoint of the painting, a gray surveillance camera on an extended pole emerges from out of frame. At top right, in the distance, a white water tower emerges from the massive smoke cloud.
Fleeing the Machine
Charlie Vadnai
Grade: 12
Acrylic painting of two adolescent Black girls standing at left and right in front of a curved arch designed in Islamic style. The background behind the arch is pitch black. The girl at left faces the viewer and wears a large scarf around her neck and shoulders. She appears to be holding a paintbrush in her left hand and what might be a color palette or a meal tray in her right hand. The girl at right is almost completely covered in a white cloak with plaid patterns, except for her left eye which peeks out from behind a gap in the cloth.
Facing Diptych
Samiya Nejum
Grade: 12