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Create someone's Lost Childhood Object. | Lenka Clayton | The Art Assignment
This week we visit Lenka Clayton, another Pittsburgh based artist whose work finds meaning in ordinary, everyday objects. For her assignment, she asks you to partner with someone and recreate a lost childhood object, using their memory...
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Photo a Friend Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Happy Participant Appreciation Month!! We're taking the next 4 weeks to show off all the hard work you've put into making responses for The Art Assignment, and recognize the many ways in which you support and contribute to this community...
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Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment continues its journey through New Orleans with Brandan "BMike" Odums, the mastermind behind "ExhibitBE", a collaborative street art exhibition that transformed an unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now...
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Fierce Women of Art 2 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Our first video on fierce women artists didn't even begin to cover the volume of interesting and boundary-pushing work made by women, so we had to make another. This week we talk about the incredible Artemisia Gentileschi, Mona Hatoum,...
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Imprint Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week Sarah and John review your submissions to Sopheap Pich's Art Assignment "Imprint" while doing the assignment themselves.
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Caption this painting. | David Rathman | The Art Assignment
David Rathman’s paintings pair atmospheric landscapes with carefully selected phrases, playing with the relationship between text and image. This week, he created a painting for you to caption.
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Measure your history with material. | Sonya Clark | The Art Assignment
Today we talk to textile artist Sonya Clark, who applies the techniques of textile work to represent her personal and cultural history. Her assignment draws on her insightful approach to histories and asks you to represent yours.
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Look What We've Done | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Over the past 3 years, 60 artists have offered art assignments, and thousands of artworks have been made in response. Here's a brief glimpse of what we've all made together over the course of this series so far. So KEEP ASSIGNMENTING!
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Desktop Monument Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we're talking about your Desktop Monuments! Your responses to Lee Boroson's assignment to capture the feeling of monumentality with miniature models have been fantastic.
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Try combinatory play with books. | Pablo Helguera | The Art Assignment
This week we meet Pablo Helguera, an artist, museum educator, and writer, at the Indianapolis stop of his Spanish language bookstore Librería Donceles. His assignment challenges you to give old books new lives through combinatory play.
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Host a Scramble Scrabble Dinner. | J. Morgan Puett | The Art Assignment
We’re at Mildred’s Lane, a 96-acre site in rural Pennsylvania founded by J. Morgan Puett. Mildred’s Lane is an experiment in living - it's a space where Morgan and her friends collaborate on projects, practice creative domestication, and...
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Fix an object you feel bad for. | Diana Shpungin | The Art Assignment
We meet with Brooklyn-based artist Diana Shpungin. Diana's work and her assignment for you are both based on empathy -- it's a feeling we usually have for other people, but Diana wants you to direct your empathy towards objects instead.
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Try these proposals! | Peter Liversidge | The Art Assignment
We drop in on London-based artist Peter Liversidge, who gives us proposals in the place of assignments. Do one or do all three and show us your good work!
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Happy Birthday + Call Us, Maybe? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Happy birthday to us! Welcome to the third year of The Art Assignment.
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Can You Become Someone Else? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We’re talking about your responses to Tameka Norris’s assignment to Become Someone Else and how both internal and external change are a constant and inevitable reality in our lives.
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The Muster Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we let your responses speak for themselves and present some of the excellent submissions to The Muster. What are you fighting for?
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Construct a landscape. | Paula McCartney | The Art Assignment
This week’s assignment comes from artist Paula McCartney, whose work explores the boundaries between the natural and unnatural. Her assignment asks you to reexamine what those terms even mean by constructing an image of the so-called...
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How do you convey emotion with furniture? | Christoph Niemann | The Art Assignment
Illustrator and artist Christoph Niemann joins The Art Assignment to give out the challenge of finding the emotion in furniture. Sarah also looks into art history as she dissects Edward Hopper's Nighthawks with other works, and how...
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Sorted Books Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week Sarah and John discuss some of their favorite responses to Nina Katchadourian's assignment Sorted Books.
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Create an imaginary friend. | JooYoung Choi | The Art Assignment
We introduce you to the talented and amazing JooYoung Choi, who shares tales of her fictional realm The Cosmic Womb and beckons us to create our own IMAGINARY FRIEND.
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Be Good Studios on Creative Direction and a Digital Future
The creative mind behind #MyCalvins and Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton Menswear Lina Kutsovskaya of Be Good Studios discusses fashion advertising's push towards a digitally minded future.
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Make a fake flyer. | Nathaniel Russell | The Art Assignment
Today we meet with artist and musician Nathaniel Russell. Nat's work plays with the divide between real and imagined, making posters and flyers for events that may or may not exist. His assignment asks you to make a fake flyer and share...
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Explore variations of white. | Odili Donald Odita | The Art Assignment
What is white? What is any color? Philadelphia-based abstract painter Odili Donald Odita talks with us about his work and offers us an assignment about color.
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Sorted Books | Nina Katchadourian | The Art Assignment
We meet Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian in Lawrence, Kansas, at the former home of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997). Nina takes us on her journey of sorting Burroughs's book collection and challenges you to...