The Art Assignment

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2015
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Play a game of "Movement Telephone" | Ryan McNamara
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Performance artist Ryan McNamara joins PBS Digital Studio's The Art Assignment to challenge you to play a game of MOVEMENT TELEPHONE.
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Facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro | Dignicraft
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The Art Assignment visits artist collective Dignicraft during their residency at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Omar Foglio, José Luis Figueroa, .. show full overview
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Notes from New Orleans
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We visited New Orleans for the Prospect.3 exhibition and saw some fantastic art by Carrie Mae Weems, Camille Henrot, Shigeru Ban, Kerry James Marshall, and Tavares Strachan.
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Become Someone Else | Tameka Norris
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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. Thanks for all the wonderful submissions!
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Produce an Assembly Line | Bob Snead
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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 .. show full overview
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Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums
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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 .. show full overview
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Ten Ideas That led to a Different Idea
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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!
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Customize a common object. | Brian McCutcheon
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Indianapolis-based artist Brian McCutcheon asks you to Customize It!
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Collaborate With Son Lux | Ryan Lott
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Ryan Lott, also known as Son Lux, is a musician and composer who works in collaboration.
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The One That Got Away - Update
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Oliver Blank gives an update on some of the best responses to his challenge
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Declare your cause. | Allison Smith
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Today we visit artist Allison Smith in her Oakland, California studio. Her work focuses on historical reenactment and how the past influences the present -- and now she wants to know what YOU are fighting for.
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Art As Experience: Book Club #2
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Make a Thing | Jonn Herschend & Will Rogan
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This week's assignment comes from Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, who cofounded THE THING Quarterly, a publication that distributes everyday objects conceived of by different artists. .. show full overview
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The Case For Andy Warhol
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What's the deal with Warhol, and is he worth your time and consideration?
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Explore a physical boundary. | Zarouhie Abdalian
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We come to you this week from San Francisco's Exploratorium, where we met with artist-in-residence Zarouhie Abdalian. For her assignment, she wants you to focus on boundaries and the relationships between the spaces they separate.
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Become a Sci-Fi Character | Desirée Holman
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This week we sit down with artist Desirée Holman to talk about her current project, Sophont, which explores ideas of science fiction, aliens, new-age ideology, mysticism, and tech .. show full overview
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The Case For Mark Rothko
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Rectangles after rectangles after rectangles.
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Create an embarrassing object. | Geof Oppenheimer
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This week's assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same.
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Do a surface test. | Kim Beck
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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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VidCon Makes a Rug
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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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Connect with your neighbor through film. | Jon Rubin
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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 .. show full overview
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I Could Do That
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So you look at a work of art and think to yourself, I could have done that. And maybe you really could have, but the issue here is more complex than that -- why didn't you? Why did the artist? And why does it have an audience?
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Create someone's Lost Childhood Object. | Lenka Clayton
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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 .. show full overview
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Can You Become Someone Else?
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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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Host a Scramble Scrabble Dinner. | J. Morgan Puett
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This week 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 .. show full overview
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What is Mildred's Lane?
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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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Create paper weavings. | Michelle Grabner
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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 it’s potential as a design project.
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Make a fake flyer. | Nathaniel Russell
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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 .. show full overview
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What is ArtPrize?
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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.
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Make It, then Break It. | Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani
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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 .. show full overview
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Fix an object you feel bad for. | Diana Shpungin
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We continue our exploration of ArtPrize and 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 .. show full overview
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Fierce Women of Art
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This week we're talking about a group of supremely awesome and unapologetic artists who take risks, question art world practices, and also happen to be women. These are truly .. show full overview
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Use the Present Perimeter to create art. | Jonathan Nesci
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This week we meet with artist and designer Jonathan Nesci at the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Jonathan uses systems of design to experiment with new materials and .. show full overview
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Be a news photographer.
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Alec Soth is a photographer who works on large-scale projects that play with the boundaries between his roles as a fine art photographer and photojournalist. This week, he asks you to .. show full overview
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Art Trip: Twin Cities
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In which we explore a few of Minnesota's many fantastic art offerings. Let's take a trip through the Twin Cities!
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Construct a landscape. | Paula McCartney
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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 natural world.

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