Instructional Video8:31
The Art Assignment

Create someone's Lost Childhood Object. | Lenka Clayton | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video6:28
The Art Assignment

Photo a Friend Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video7:52
The Art Assignment

Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video10:07
The Art Assignment

Fierce Women of Art 2 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
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,...
Instructional Video6:22
The Art Assignment

Imprint Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
This week Sarah and John review your submissions to Sopheap Pich's Art Assignment "Imprint" while doing the assignment themselves.
Instructional Video7:16
The Art Assignment

Caption this painting. | David Rathman | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video8:02
The Art Assignment

Measure your history with material. | Sonya Clark | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video2:47
The Art Assignment

Look What We've Done | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
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!
Instructional Video7:53
The Art Assignment

Desktop Monument Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video9:30
The Art Assignment

Try combinatory play with books. | Pablo Helguera | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video7:49
The Art Assignment

Host a Scramble Scrabble Dinner. | J. Morgan Puett | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video7:07
The Art Assignment

Fix an object you feel bad for. | Diana Shpungin | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video8:04
The Art Assignment

Try these proposals! | Peter Liversidge | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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!
Instructional Video2:28
The Art Assignment

Happy Birthday + Call Us, Maybe? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
Happy birthday to us! Welcome to the third year of The Art Assignment.
Instructional Video6:36
The Art Assignment

Can You Become Someone Else? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video4:09
The Art Assignment

The Muster Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
This week we let your responses speak for themselves and present some of the excellent submissions to The Muster. What are you fighting for?
Instructional Video8:12
The Art Assignment

Construct a landscape. | Paula McCartney | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video6:14
The Art Assignment

How do you convey emotion with furniture? | Christoph Niemann | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video5:11
The Art Assignment

Sorted Books Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
This week Sarah and John discuss some of their favorite responses to Nina Katchadourian's assignment Sorted Books.
Instructional Video9:24
The Art Assignment

Create an imaginary friend. | JooYoung Choi | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video26:11
The Wall Street Journal

Be Good Studios on Creative Direction and a Digital Future

Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video7:30
The Art Assignment

Make a fake flyer. | Nathaniel Russell | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...
Instructional Video10:16
The Art Assignment

Explore variations of white. | Odili Donald Odita | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video7:43
The Art Assignment

Sorted Books | Nina Katchadourian | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
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...