Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher

Zhenbang Zhang
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
I self-reflect my three years in FIT; I keep challenging myself to improve my artworks quality, I hone my painting and drawing skills. The cage represents my comfort zone that I used to stay, but if I want to fly higher, I have to walk out of the cage.
Look

Look

Sumire Mikami
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Reflecting on childhood as if looking through the mirrored images of a kaleidoscope as a child.
You’re Everything

You’re Everything

Olivia Szczotka
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
A comic panel about self-reflection of two sides of the same person asking if they’re enough.
Reflection

Reflection

Nicole Angamarca
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
This piece is inspired by human fragility. As the theme is inspiration, I wanted to reflect on how each of us afronts their everyday life. Each element in this piece is open to interpretation.
Musings

Musings

Nadine Ibanez
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
The presence of blooming lotuses anchors a scene of flowing serenity. Cascading waters pour from one vessel to another and embodies tranquility.
Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Mireille Vieux-Gresham
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Course: IL 491 Mentor/Specialization Projects I
Lily Pads

Lily Pads

Maya Saldana
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Course: IL 491 Mentor/Specialization Projects I
Love as a Mirror

Love as a Mirror

Maira Rivera
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
My piece explores Love as a Mirror, how we see ourselves through those who love us, and how beautiful and bittersweet that can be. I also wanted to explore how I can challenge myself with the chalk materials with rendering with the bubbles.
Fall of Icarus

Fall of Icarus

Joshua Guerrero
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Icarus reflects on his mistakes during his descent.
Reflection

Reflection

Jimmie Rhames
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
My work is kinda designed to be enhanced by the viewer looking at it. It’s the eye of a reptile and you see your own reflection when looking into it, and the reptile stares back at you, the viewer is now part of the scene.
Glance Back

Glance Back

Jessie Shi
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
For this project, I want to reflect on my childhood, the time when I first began my journey as an artist.
Steam Powered Goodbye

Steam Powered Goodbye

Jess Lyle
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
A wizard walks away from a kingdom he has lent his magic to for years after the introduction of steam power.
The Joy in Remembrance

The Joy in Remembrance

Jenna Paige Markart
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
With this year's Chalk FIT theme being "reflection", I decided to create a piece in remembrance of my recently departed cat named Angel who I lost in October. Looking back and reflecting on our time together, it was always bright, lively, and joyous.
Seven Reflections

Seven Reflections

Jaden Thomas
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
I made a piece with a teddy bear head with an octopus body holding a mirror. It’s a vibrant piece with striking colors and black outline to make a more graphic work.
Smoke Break: A Time for Reflection

Smoke Break: A Time for Reflection

Jacob Frazier
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
Shadow

Shadow

Jacky Chokpapon
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
In line with this year’s theme of reflection, “Shadow” acts as an interactive piece where viewers walk past the mural and find that they are reflected in the shadow.
Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass

Isabella Centeno
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Depicts Alice breaking through the mirror away from wonderland
The Doughgirl

The Doughgirl

Evangelina Colucci
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
A self-portrait of my current self and younger me, combining a likeness to a World War One “doughboy”.
Peekaboo Aquarium

Peekaboo Aquarium

Danielle Habert
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
A monkey and a girl staring into a reflective fish tank full of bright, wonky fish. Children’s book art style. Colorful/saturated. Lots of bubbles. All different types of fish including round fish, angry fish, and a fish jumping out of the fish tank.
Reflect Her

Reflect Her

Daniela Cavuoti
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Reflect Her is a piece based on the reflection of a sinister figure in water. The characters portrayed are my comic characters Adelia(left) and Callisto(right) and Xanthe (eyes).
Eternal Smoke

Eternal Smoke

Carlos Benitez
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
This work is a reflection on the past, and present of my Mexican culture. More than anything, it’s an image designed for anyone to enjoy and appreciate regardless of the symbolism at hand.
Reflection

Reflection

Annette Nunez-Luciano
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
I wanted to imagine someone who was reminding on all the things they’ve learned on their journey. Not with a shame or regret, but with peace and serenity. She’s walking into the next phase of life with the world blooming around her.
Untitled

Untitled

Ana Carlos-Aguilar
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
Girl looking into ball
Reflection

Reflection

Amina Sokolji
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
A reflection of my work and love for biological and conceptual illustration.
Death of the Laris

Death of the Laris

Amani Chandradatt
  • 2025
  • Illustration (School of Art and Design)
  • Image
  • Mural paintings (visual works)
  • Public art
It's a reflection of one's mortality. An endangered riverine rabbit stares into the eyes of extinction. This is a piece about existential dread and the sentiments that one might experience when pondering about their eventual demise,,