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Make a Rug Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
It's been a year since Fritz Haeg asked us to make a rug, and you all delivered! We received so many responses to this assignment and it's been incredible watching your rugs grow over the last 12 months. Fritz intended this process to be...
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Expanded Moment Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Jan Tichy joins us again this week to discuss some of your excellent submissions to his assignment Expanded Moment. Keep submitting your responses with
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Photo a friend. | Tanja Hollander | The Art Assignment
We meet up with photographer Tanja Hollander in North Adams, MA, on her epic journey around the world to visit and take formal portraits of ALL of her 626 facebook friends. She challenges you to take a formal photographic portrait of a...
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Off: Highlights 8 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we bring back artist, Lauren Zoll, to discuss your submissions to her assignment!
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Play a game of "Movement Telephone" | Ryan McNamara | The Art Assignment
Performance artist Ryan McNamara joins The Art Assignment to challenge you to play a game of Movement Telephone. Sarah then compares this assignment to the evolution of the meme, which is a sophisticated and rapid form of imitation.
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Walk On It: Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You walked on it, and we watched.
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The One That Got Away - Update | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we're reunited with Oliver Blank, who shares his thoughts on the incredible response to his assignment and announces some exciting plans for the messages you left to the one who got away.
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What is Mildred's Lane? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We continue our stay at Mildred's Lane and talk to it's Director and Ambassador of Entanglement J. Morgan Puett about it's origins, it's goals and how her installation art practice influences her vision for the site.
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John and Sarah Host a Scramble Scrabble Dinner | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We accepted J. Morgan Puett's art assignment and gathered some friends together to host our own Scramble Scrabble Dinner.
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Customize a common object. | Brian McCutcheon | The Art Assignment
Indianapolis-based artist Brian McCutcheon asks you to Customize It! This art prompt is asking you to look at the traits around the object and play with one of those traits, thus changing how it's used. Sarah then highlights Méret...
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Take a photo of a family member you don't know very well. | Laurel Nakadate | The Art Assignment
Laurel Nakadate makes art by connecting with strangers, and she wants you to do this, too! She gives us the challenge of finding little known family members and making their photographic portrait. Sarah also discusses photography as an...
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Make a Rug | The Art Assignment | Fritz Haeg
We visit Fritz Haeg at his home and studio in Los Angeles and receive the assignment to make a rag rug! But not just any rag rug--one that you make over time and do something on.
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Exquisite Corpse | Hugo Crosthwaite | The Art Assignment
This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. Hugo asks you to create a collaborative drawing by playing the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse.
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Conjure a studio. | Hope Ginsburg | The Art Assignment
INSTRUCTIONS 1. CONJURE A STUDIO: REAL OR IMAGINARY - Where do you like to work? - What do you like to do? - If you could do it anywhere (or with anyone), where would it be? 2. MAKE IT HAPPEN - Take over, transform, build a space... -...
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Create a vehicular palette. | Jesse Sugarmann | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Jesse Sugarmann, whose artwork considers how the automotive industry shapes the way we live and construct our identities. His assignment asks you to think about the way car consumerism, and the aesthetic choices...
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Bring a sound to life. | Jamal Cyrus | The Art Assignment
We meet up with artist Jamal Cyrus in his hometown of Houston, Texas, where we broach the topic of "postmodernism" and are challenged to summon an impossible sound.
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VidCon Makes a Rug | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
So many of you came out to make a rug with us at VidCon and we couldn't be more thrilled with how it turned out. Thanks so much to all who participated, and especially those who were kind enough to share their thoughts about the experience!
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What, How, Where - Responses | The Art Assignment
This week we feature some of our favorite responses to Florian Rivière & Jim Walker’s art assignment “What, How, Where” presented, this time, by all of you!
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Explore a place you see every day. | Assaf Evron | The Art Assignment
We visit Assaf Evron in Chicago to consider how photography can help us see the familiar places we visit everyday differently.
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What's Your Problem? | Ghana Think Tank | The Art Assignment
This week we head to Tijuana, Mexico to talk with John Ewing, Carmen Montoya, and Christopher Robbins of Ghana Think Tank, who are working on a project to encourage communication at the U.S-Mexico border.
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Body in Place | Maria Gaspar | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Maria Gaspar, an artist deeply invested in her community on the west side of Chicago. For her assignment, she asks you to engage with your community by adding yourself to the picture.
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Questions! | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We may be on vacation this week but that doesn't mean that The Art Assignment is! Nature permitting, we're going to try to answer some of our favorite questions submitted by you, dear viewers.
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Leave a message for "The One That Got Away" | Oliver Blank | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with English artist Oliver Blank who explores our sense of time and place through public installations. And this time we make an artwork together.