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Make It, then Break It. | Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani | The Art Assignment
We went to ArtPrize and met up with Minneapolis based artists Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani. Their exhibit this year invited the audience to destroy the large-scale handmade piñatas that they had spent hours constructing. And now it’s...
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Do a surface test. | Kim Beck | The Art Assignment
You probably made rubbings in elementary school, but Kim Beck views rubbings as field recordings. She wants you to take a snapshot of a particular place by making a rubbing of the ground you're standing on.
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Connect with your neighbor through film. | Jon Rubin | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Jon Rubin, a Pittsburgh based artist whose practice often focuses on cultural exchange, pushing us to imagine other people and their lives more complexly. For his assignment, he asks you to do the same by bridging...
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Vanessa Hill of BrainCraft | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft, a production of PBS Digital Studios, which explores psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do.
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Create a desktop monument.| Lee Boroson | The Art Assignment
In which we visit artist Lee Boroson in his summer studio in upstate New York, where he was hard at work on his exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened this week! Boroson assigns us to create a desktop monument.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Repousse (Metal Tooling) with Geometric and Organic Shapes
This video lesson will teach you how to create a repousse using 36 gauge copper and wooden sticks. The project includes a design extention onto black paper using colored pencils.
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What is ArtPrize? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We spent a week in Grand Rapids absorbing everything that was ArtPrize 2015, the world’s largest art competition. Here’s a taste of what we found. Many thanks to Kevin Buist for talking to us about the event!
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Ten Ideas That led to a Different Idea | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we try our hand at one of those top 10 lists we keep seeing on the Interwebs these days. Specifically, we're going to talk about ten ideas that led to the idea of this very show! We'll look at how ideas are cyclical - informed...
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Produce an Assembly Line | Bob Snead | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment furthers their exploration of New Orleans to visit artist Bob Snead. He's the Executive Director of Press Street, an organization that promotes art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts...
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Create paper weavings. | Michelle Grabner | The Art Assignment
Michelle Grabner is curator, critic, professor, and artist who works in multiple mediums, but much of her work centers around pattern and color. Her assignment asks you to recall an activity you may have done in kindergarten and explore...
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Draw a shape that represents you. | Tschabalala Self | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Tschabalala Self, whose work explores ideas surrounding the black female body; and her assignment asks you to consider your own body as a symbol too.
Rachel's English
CAN vs CAN'T with QUIZ
If you’re learning to speak American English one of the most common contractions—can’t—is one of the most difficult! In this American English pronunciation lesson, you’ll learn from multiple native speakers how to pronounce the word...
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Copy a Copy a Copy | Molly Springfield | The Art Assignment
This week we meet D.C. based artist Molly Springfield. Molly's graphite drawings transform texts into images, and her assignment for you asks you to consider how repeating a process can turn a copy into an original.
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The Case for Performance Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of performance art and attempt to sway you to its potential charms.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Spark Creativity: Art Collaboration Through Collage with @KerriBevisArtlife
Join @KerriBevisArtlife and I for a collaborative activity suited for any age. This activity is sure to fire up the imagination!
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Become Someone Else | Tameka Norris | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment travels to New Orleans to meet with Tameka Norris, who makes art in a variety of media and often uses her body in her work. She challenges YOU to become someone else. Sarah then highlights Adrian Piper, who created an...
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Please Do Not Touch
Ever wonder why Sarah's computer sticker reads "PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH"? Art and Architecture Conservator Richard McCoy joins us to discuss when it's appropriate to touch art, when it's not, and why. AND! He gives us an extra credit...
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The Case for Ai Weiwei | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless, and was once named the most powerful artist in the world. Who is Ai Weiwei? And why is he considered one of the most renowned artists of our time?
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Make an imprint. | Sopheap Pich | The Art Assignment
In which we meet Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich and receive the assignment to make an IMPRINT. We filmed with Sopheap at Indianapolis Fabrications while he was in town installing a new work for the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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What's a Curator? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Digital Studio's The Art Assignment asks what the title "curator" really means, both traditionally and as it is used today. Can you be a curator of vintage sneakers? Let's talk about it in the comments.
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Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
The Guerrilla Girls are asking, nay demanding, that we complain! But we must do so in ways unique and memorable. We met up with them in London at Tate Modern's new Tate Exchange space, where the Guerrilla Girls were in residence and...
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Landscape Archaeology | Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly | The Art Assignment
This week we speak to collaborating artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and learn about their approach to learning about and working with landscapes.
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Creativity is Overrated
You don't need to be creative or inspired to make art, but you may need the advice of artists, and perhaps a prompt!
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The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds...