LYNN – Eleven-year-old McKensie Brunet was a walking piece of art as she moved carefully down Exchange Street headed toward Lynn Arts Monday and the annual All-City Art Show.”It is a life-sized sound suit,” explained art teacher Joan Ortu, who led Brunet by the hand.The Drewicz School fifth-grader was draped head to toe in a linen cloth covered with round metal pins and whistles that clanged together softly as she walked. She peered from two small eyeholes. Adriana Mirabal, also 11, stayed close by waiting to take her turn under the suit. The pair were just one of more than 100 works of art created by Lynn Public School students from across the city.”This is one of my most favorite nights of the year,” said Fine Arts Director Joseph Picano. “This just gets better every year.”In its 11th year, Picano said he was not surprised to see the tremendous turnout for the event.”We get a lot of support from the administration and families,” he said.He also praised the staff because “they did what I asked them to do and more.” Picano said he asked his art teachers to focus on the curriculum standards required by the state and not worry about the year end exhibit.”Everything you see here is according to state standards,” he said. “We have work from students that are quiet and shy but their work is outspoken.”Jennica Pratt stared at a row of three mixed media pieces created by Ford School kindergarten students.”They’re beautiful,” she said. “I’d hang that in my home.”She later confessed she is a middle school art teacher and has a penchant for children’s artwork. Sitting on the mantel over the fireplace in Lynn Art’s main gallery is a tree created from plaster and wire, and dotted with tiny white ceramic doves each bearing a word such as calm, love, zen and joy. It was created by Marshall Middle School students under Pratt’s direction. She said she loves teaching art to middle schoolers because they’re creative and imaginative but still little kids.Breed Middle School eighth-grader Madison Picano pointed out a tiny sparkling ballet flat fashioned out of clay to her parents.”The assignment was to make a shoe,” she said. “I played with the clay until I got that and put tons of sparkles on it.”Picano said she likes art class because it’s fun to create designs and sculptures. Makram Al-Banaa, a second-grader, agreed that art “is kind of fun.”Other artwork included Amate bark drawings by Drewicz students, wearable paper hats from Callahan Elementary School students, toilet paper tube mice from Connery Elementary School second-graders and masks from Ingalls Elementary School fifth-graders. There were also color theory paintings, clay pinch pots, red designs for henna hand tattoos, and photographs of the designs actually transferred onto hands, water color chameleons and paper machie ice cream cones that one proud father declared looked good enough to eat.And outside Lynn English junior Nelsida Hidalgo was attracting a crowd with her interactive piece based on Edvard Monk’s The Scream. Hidalgo painted a life-sized version of the famous painting but added a cut out rather than a face. She then invited passersby to step up and create their own scream.”Before I did this I did my own smaller version in pastels,” she said. “Then we got the idea to enlarge it. It’s getting a good reception.”And so did the art show.Chris Stevens can be reached at [email protected].