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Yoko Ono was an established artist before most of the world heard of her in 1968, and she continues to make groundbreaking work to this day. Who is Yoko Ono? What is her work? And why should you take her seriously? This is the case for Yoko Ono.


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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h 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. Let's talk about it!

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Sarah and John reflect on the first year of PBS Digital Studios' The Art Assignment, and talk about viewer-submitted responses to the question: What does the Art Assignment mean to you? We are so grateful for all of those who responded and who participate in the Art Assignment community.

Many thanks to all the fine people who make this series possible: PBS Digital Studios and Matthew Vree, Mark Olsen, Brandon Brungard, Molly Schwartz, Dana Schechter, Jason Weidner, Zulaiha Razak, Stan Muller, Elise Lockwood, and Meredith Danko.

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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.

INSTRUCTIONS - Self Shape
1. Make a line drawing of a shape that represents you
2. Fill this object with a color or pattern
3. Share it using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (Your work may be in a future video)

Learn more about Tschabalala and her work: http://tschabalalaself.com/
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This week we meet with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, an amazing contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. They give us the challenge to FIND YOUR BAND.

INSTRUCTIONS - Find Your Band
1. Go through your day and notice all the sounds around you
2. Choose a group of those sounds to be your band
3. Join the band!
4. Record or document what happens and upload to your social media platform of choice with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

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Jon Cozart talks to us about classical music, internet videos, Lord of the Rings, and of course, musicals. Here are Jon's five favorite works of art:

1) Spring Awakening
2) Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
3) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4) The "Tomorrow" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Macbeth
5) History of Japan by Bill Wurtz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o

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Resistance isn't always visible, but when we can see it in art, what does it look like? Step back through global art history and look at Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace, Henry Oscar One Bull’s Custer’s War, Goya's Disasters of War, and Kara Walker's Darkytown Rebellion. Each revealing in disparate ways the experience of those who have struggled against systems of power.

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Thanks to our Grandmaster of the Arts Vincent Apa, and all of our patrons, especially Frame Monster Design Laboratory, Lynn Gordon, Patrick Hanna, Nichole Hicks, Nicholas Huynh, Eve Leonard, David Moore, Jane Quale, Constance Urist, Nicholas Xu. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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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.

INSTRUCTIONS - Combinatory Play
1. Bring together a small group of collaborators
2. Each collaborator will pick a play
3. Read the plays together, exchanging lines
4. Upload it using #theartassignment

Learn more about Pablo's work: http://www.pablohelguera.net/

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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.

INSTRUCTIONS - Copy A Copy A Copy
1. Select a page from a book and make a photocopy of it
2. Make a photocopy of the photocopy and make changes, if you like, by enlarging, reducing, etc.
3. Repeat step #2 until the original has been transformed into a new image
4. Upload the final copy using #theartassignment (Extra credit if you make a work in a new medium!)
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Molly's work:
https://mollyspringfield.com/home.html

We then discussed artists like Mel Bochner that used the photocopier in their conceptual art since its beginnings.

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The powerful and privileged have hoarded precious artifacts in museums for centuries, and it's only recently that these treasures were made available to the rest of us. What purpose did museums serve? And why does every city have one today?

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The Art Assignment, launching early 2014, is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We will take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week we kick off The Art Assignment Book Club with Dave Hickey's "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy." We discuss everything from John geeking out in a library to Michael Jackson's chimpanzee - Bubbles. Oh, and we discuss the book a little too.

If you haven't yet read Air Guitar find more information here:
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Dada was a movement known for collage, upturned urinals, and its radicality--a reaction to the horrors of World War I. It was NOT known for its food, but in 1961 artist Man Ray offered this "Menu for a Dadaist Day," and we cooked it for you.

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To learn more about Dada and access original sources visit International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

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In which Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil challenges you to draw a psychological landscape.

INSTRUCTIONS - Psychological Landscape

1. Get a piece of paper and something to draw with

2. Create a ground on your picture plane

3. Populate the ground with figures and give them human-like characteristics.

4. Upload it using #theartassignment

5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Robyn's work here: http://www.robynoneil.com/
And follow her on twitter! @Robyn_ONeil

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Mentions include:
Bob Ross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/Colle....ctions/search-the-co
Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/....cave-of-forgotten-dr
Chauvet Cave paintings: http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/

We explore the recipes of artist Frida Kahlo, whose work celebrated Mexico's history, vivid colors, and it's FOOD. On the menu: 1) Chiles Stuffed with Cheese aka Chiles Rellenos 2) White Rice with Plantains 3) Nopales Salad 4) Tequila.

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h In which we explore sunny Los Angeles and take in its enormous range of art offerings, from the eclectic campus at LACMA to an incredible exhibit at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. It's all worth the drive.

Featuring:
Ramen Yamadaya
Hammer Museum
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Honor Fraser Gallery
Coolhaus
Nuestro Mexico Restaurant
Buck Owens Crystal Palace
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Broad Museum
Wurstküche
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h 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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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 the gap between you and your neighbor.

INSTRUCTIONS - HERETHERE
1. Tell a neighbor that you’re participating in an art project and that you want to film one of their rooms
2. Record (in landscape!) through that room from left to right, being as slow and stable as possible.
3. Make sure to have an object or wall in the foreground of the in point and out point
4. Upload your best take using #theartassignment
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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h 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 -- keep submitting your responses with #theartassignment!

Watch the original assignment: https://youtu.be/EX9FiewKqI0

Featured in this video:
yes4poe: http://yes4poe.tumblr.com/post..../100405125312/canyon
Erin Carlson: http://hyperponderating.tumblr.....com/post/1017066017
lyriclorelei: http://lyriclorelei.tumblr.com..../post/110834727675/d
ljm792: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9FiewKqI0&lc=z12ksnkhdwqdwzy2i230zxnhbwqnipxgu04
Tessa: http://space-munchies.tumblr.com/post/100316250647
unnestedmatryoshka: http://unnestedmatryoshka.tumb....lr.com/post/10017888 / http://unnestedmatryoshka.tumb....lr.com/post/10017903
Kiley: http://princess-of-the-ooo-for....ests.tumblr.com/post
minnesbeta: http://minnesbeta.tumblr.com/p....ost/113417385789/the / http://minnesbeta.tumblr.com/p....ost/113417573184/the
Paralian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9FiewKqI0&lc=z12lexuzsku3cznqh04cdftjuuqsstmxj4c

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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.

INSTRUCTIONS - Imprint
1. Choose an object you find interesting
2. Cut it, making a flat surface
3. Dip the cut surface in paint
4. Press it on to a piece of paper repeatedly to make an imprint
5. Upload to you social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
6. Fame and glory (your work may be featured in the future video)

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