In which we feature responses to The Art Assignment Ep. 3: Intimate, Indispensable GIF, given by New York-based artist Toyin Odutola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTWPkK5wvo

Thanks to all who posted the responses featured in this video:

Danielle DeLeon: http://danielledeleon.com/

Julian: http://37.media.tumblr.com/434....c62015f2b4d487c2e4f1

Emma: http://the-knight-bus-is-real.tumblr.com/

Anna: http://acvart.wordpress.com/20....14/03/28/my-intimate

Tesla Hernandez: http://imgur.com/x8SRhuv

Holly Holdsworth: http://25.media.tumblr.com/f0e....3c381240681ec648e7a0

Reading Glasses: http://makeagif.com/TEbIm5#kKOjRuUdf7OXUkDi.01

Hatem Aly: http://metahatem.tumblr.com/po....st/80792702423/my-ob

Hussein Salama: http://hussiens.tumblr.com/

thecreativedestructor: https://31.media.tumblr.com/a3....6e692f4c4a81211cc0e8

Mikey: http://gnaist.tumblr.com/

Zoe: http://leftmyglassesinthetardis.tumblr.com/

Natalia: http://expressopatronum.tumblr.....com/post/7953304093

grumpytoes: http://grumpytoes.tumblr.com/

Dylan Evans: http://physicynicism.tumblr.com/

heyadzam: https://24.media.tumblr.com/c3....bf756c47e61c225858e7

sheep-in-space: http://sheep-in-space.tumblr.com/

Annabel Jones: http://annadoodle.blogspot.com..../2014/03/art-assignm

Callagaintomorrow: http://callagaintomorrow.tumblr.com/

Qwirksilver: http://qwirksilver.tumblr.com/....post/79821854702/lau

Kara: http://24.media.tumblr.com/271....e7cd471d6f3dc4734528

notthathunter: http://scriptomanic.wordpress.....com/2014/04/07/the-p

charmingpplincardigans: http://charmingpplincardigans.tumblr.com/

shemustassemble: http://shemustassemble.tumblr.com/

Jennifer Hartley: http://teapartyatthemalfoys.tumblr.com/

Cooper: http://y0unique.tumblr.com/pos....t/79856903451/check-

Rebecca: http://i-create-therefore-i-am.....tumblr.com/search/t

Erin Michelle: http://erinmichelleart.blogspo....t.com.au/2014/04/san

Jennyferstrange: http://dairinn.tumblr.com/post..../81666677057/for-my-

Yasmin: http://midsummersky.tumblr.com..../post/79869912172/i-

griffindork19: http://gryffindork19.tumblr.co....m/post/79807673992/t

J Fry: http://jayfry.tumblr.com/

creationandconsumption: http://creationandconsumption.....tumblr.com/post/8043

Jennifer: http://jenniferjamboree.tumblr.com/

Emily: http://odetomyday.com/

Katie: http://threewillowleaves.tumbl....r.com/post/816375982

Nina: http://ninjaninaiii.tumblr.com/

Connor O'Keefe: http://time-sloth.tumblr.com/

Taylor Stone: http://teabeestone.tumblr.com/

eclecticjessie: http://eclecticjessie.tumblr.com/

Meg Gilbert: http://megmotherwort.tumblr.com/

pacebike: http://pacebike.tumblr.com/pos....t/79879028017/intima

Alex: http://youthinkucantellheavenfromhell.tumblr.com/

Paige: http://nerdofwhimsy.tumblr.com/

Sarah Dunn: http://apex-17-sarah.blogspot.....com/2014/03/abbey-ro

Sam: http://musiqueandelephanteaux.tumblr.com/

Merrivcat: http://merrivcat.tumblr.com/

Geeksdanz: http://www.giflike.com/embed/gNGpnsN

Joss: http://artassignmentsbyjoss.tumblr.com/

Julia: http://juliarosalinda.tumblr.c....om/post/80199655574/

just-go-to-bed: http://just-go-to-bed.tumblr.com/

ft-artcraft: http://ft-artcraft.tumblr.com/

herrfalter: http://herrfalter.tumblr.com/

Jason Lin: http://obeserhino.tumblr.com/p....ost/79842504530/the-

Emily Eifler: http://blinkpopshift.tumblr.com/

valerie2776: http://valerie2776.tumblr.com/

dafidaf: http://dafidaf.tumblr.com/post..../80276329792/17-3-14 http://makeagif.com/i/jAmrcD, http://makeagif.com/i/lztGdM

What is video art? How is it any different from all the other moving pictures that are apparently not-art? Let's explore its history and present. // And we have new merch! Check out our limited edition Agnes Martin inspired sweatshirt: https://store.dftba.com/collec....tions/the-art-assign

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The artist Frida Kahlo is a larger-than-life icon, known for the masterful self-portraits she made during her turbulent life (1907 - 1954). We take a close look at her painting The Two Fridas (Las Dos Fridas), and consider what it tells us (and doesn't) about her as a person and her wider body of work. Preorder You Are an Artist by Art Assignment creator Sarah Urist Green (available April 14): http://bit.ly/2kplj2h.

This episode is voiced by Rosianna Halse Rojas (http://www.youtube.com/missxrojas).

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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 behind it, has shaped you and your family. Let's talk cars.

INSTRUCTIONS - Vehicular Palette
1. Ask members of your family what kind of cars they’ve owned and when. Make a list.

2. Select a timeframe for your data

3. Choose an element of the car you would like to focus on

4. Take these elements and create a data visualization system

5. Share using #theartassignment

6. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

Link for the full steps: https://youtu.be/h31PemGX2zA

Learn more about Jesse's work: https://vimeo.com/user7569805

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Guests include:
John Green (@vlogbrothers)
Mark Stewart: https://soundstewart.com/
Julia Wolfe: https://juliawolfemusic.com/
(of the organization Bang on a Can: https://bangonacan.org/)
The Guerrilla Girls: https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

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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 take on the role of a newspaper photographer and report on a story from a different perspective.

INSTRUCTIONS - News Photographer
1. Pick a story from a news source and follow up with it
2. Look for something that wasn’t covered in the story and take a photo of it
3. Write an accompanying text that pushes the viewer in a different direction
4. Upload your photo and caption with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)




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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 the great city of Richmond, Virginia, and think about its history as well as its present.

Featuring:
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Quirk Hotel
Rappahannock Restaurant
Lamplighter Roasting Company
Early Bird Biscuit Co.
Reynolds Gallery
1708 Gallery
VCU’s Undergraduate Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
The future site of The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU
Sub Rosa Bakery
Libby Hill Park

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We ventured into the Utah countryside to visit some of the best loved Land Art works of the 1970s, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, and check out the art that is happening there now. Also featured: William Lamson's Mineralogy, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, and lots and lots of salt.

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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 unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now he's asking YOU to do something similar.

John and Sarah then discuss the movements in art history of exploring and transforming ruins and highlights Sarah's favorite artist, Gordon Matta Clark.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Find a discarded object
2. Think about where that object has been and use that story to transform it into something new
3. Upload before and after photos using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

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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. Here’s what she means:

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Get a crayon and a large piece of paper
2. Find a piece of ground that you respond to
3. Make a rubbing of that piece of ground
4. Take a photo of the rubbing in the place you made it and upload using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be featured in a future episode)
6. BONUS!: Send us your rubbing (with a return address) and we’ll send you someone else’s — mail to: The Art Assignment, PO Box 30827, Indianapolis, IN 46230

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Dorothea Lange captured this iconic photo known as Migrant Mother in 1936. But who was the woman pictured? And how did she and her family feel about its existence in the world? Guest host John Green introduces you to Florence Owens Thompson, her family, and her story. #migrantmother #dorothealange #photography

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Who are your influences? Who’s asking? Peggy Noland, a fashion designer, and Garry Noland, an artist who happens to be her father. We visit Peggy's shop in Kansas City, Missouri, and she and her dad give us the assignment to make an artwork in the style of someone whose work you admire.

INSTRUCTIONS - UNDER INFLUENCE

1. Choose an artist or a maker.

2. Get to know their work and practice.

3. Make something in that style.

4. Upload it to the social media platform of your choice using #theartassignment, telling us who you’ve chosen and how they’ve influenced you.

5. Fame & glory. (Your work might be featured in an upcoming episode.)

Learn More:
Peggy Noland:
http://peggynoland.com/

Garry Noland:
https://garrynolandart.com/home.html

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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.

INSTRUCTIONS - Whitescapes
1. Find a white object and place it next to another white object. Compare how the two colors change.
2. Describe the difference in color
3. Change the lighting and take note of how the colors change
4. Name the colors in the new lighting
5. Share your findings in whatever way you see fit, using #theartassignment

Recommended reading:
- David Batchelor, Chromophobia (2000)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
- Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963)

This assignment was filmed in Indianapolis at the Deborah Berke designed Global Distribution Headquarters for Cummins, Inc., and the Julia M. Carson Transit Center.

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When we heard there was a video game about art and curating, we had to give it a try. Watch us play Occupy White Walls and build and curate an art gallery of our dreams (well, almost). And don't forget to check out PBS's new show Monstrum!: https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs

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Forget the hype and experience the art and history that Detroit offers up in spades. We visit the Diego Rivera mural, Heidelberg Project, MOCA, abandoned buildings, and much more. To see us take more art trips, support our channel by visiting: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

Thanks to our Grandmasters of the Arts Vincent Apa and Indianapolis Homes Realty, and all of our patrons, especially Bronze Bond, Patrick Hanna, M12 Studio, Jane Quale, and Constance Urist.

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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 processes, and his assignment for you invites you to do the same by combining a set of particular shapes into different variations.

INSTRUCTIONS - Present Perimeter
1. Create a work of art using the Present Perimeter System (1 hexagon, 3 half hexagons, 3 rhombuses, and 3 triangles)
2. Document your work and upload using #theartassignment
3. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Sarah also talks about how parameters and rules can release creativity in art and uses Sol LeWitt as an example.

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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...
- Make a drawing, collage or model...
- Make it life size or miniature (or giant)...
- Hidden or in plain site...
3. Upload documentation using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Hope's work: http://www.hopeginsburg.com/

Sarah then discusses what Marcel Duchamp explored in his own studio.

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This week we meet Jan Tichy, a Chicago-based artist who gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment using video.

We also discuss how this assignment is a play on THE DECISIVE MOMENT by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who captured split-seconds points of action.

INSTRUCTIONS - Expanded Moment
1) Find a place with the potential for visual movement
2) Place your video camera on or attach it to a stable object
3) Record at least 2 minutes without moving the camera (and no sound!)
4) Upload it using #theartassignment
5) Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)

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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 that they had spent hours constructing. And now it’s your turn to make and break.


INSTRUCTIONS - MAKE IT BREAK IT
1. Create something
2. Have someone else destroy it
3. Share with us an image of the destroyed object and/or your documentation of the process of destruction
4. Upload with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)


We then discuss how our works of art can be changed or developed overtime and give example ot other artists that do so - like Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Dieter Roth.

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The naked and the nude have been frequent subjects for art throughout the history of human creation, and also the frequent subject of censorship. What's wrong with seeing the unclothed human body? And what is its place in art?

Learn more about Civilizations on PBS and how you can watch: http://www.pbs.org/civilizations/home/

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Photograph in the thumbnail is a detail of A Forgotten Model, (c. 1937) by George Platt Lynes.

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