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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.

Sarah discusses how there is a long history of art intersecting with activism and how it has evolved over time.

INSTRUCTIONS - The Muster
1. Answer the question, "What are you fighting for?"
2. Fashion your own uniform that declares your cause out of materials you have around
3. Take a picture of yourself in uniform in front of a neutral background
4. Create a declaration of your cause
5. Upload your photo and declaration with #theartassignment

Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: http://theartassignment.com/

Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h So much news! Here's your to-do list:
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4) Fill out the annual PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017

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You’ve heard his name. You’ve seen the Campbell’s Soup cans. You might know something about The Factory. But perhaps you’ve wondered why Andy Warhol gets so much attention or why his work even matters. What’s the deal with Warhol, and is he worth your time and consideration? Here’s your answer.

Stay tuned for cases for other artists, living and dead!

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We met Hannah Hart in her studio to talk about everything from painting to poetry -- here are Hannah's five favorite works of art:

1) Little By Little by Hannah Gelb (available here as a print! https://store.dftba.com/produc....ts/little-by-little-
2) The video Why Trust Is Worth It by Ze Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWypWe9UAhQ
3) Biwa Lake Tree, Study 2 by Michael Kenna
4) Little Red Riding Hood by Cory Godbey
5) Any poem by Mary Oliver

Thanks, Hannah. We (h)art you.

Find Hannah around the internet:
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/harto
twitter: http://twitter.com/harto
instagram: http://instagram.com/harto
tumblr: http://mydrunkkitchen.tumblr.com
facebook: http://facebook.com/hannahhartofficial
snapchat: @hartoooo

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This week we let your responses speak for themselves and present some of the excellent submissions to The Muster. What are you fighting for?

Watch the assignment: https://youtu.be/1-Nqrk8IE78

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week we channel Drake and answer your questions from our art hotline*.
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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h 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 ongoing, so keep adding to your rugs as you wear out more clothes!

If you're planning on attending Vidcon, we will be making a rug together at the PBS Digital booth! So bring your old tshirts with you to Anaheim.

Watch the original Make a Rug assignment: https://youtu.be/3GLmRJMTn6E

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David Rathman’s paintings pair atmospheric landscapes with carefully selected phrases, playing with the relationship between text and image. This week, he created a painting for you to caption.

INSTRUCTIONS - CAPTION CONTEST
1. Add text, preferably handwritten, to Rathman's painting
2. Print out the image below and write on it, or create your writing separately, scan it and add it to the image digitally
3. Document your text and image combination and share it with us using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Save the painting for the caption here: http://www.theartassignment.co....m/assignments/captio

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

It's tax season in the United States, and the art market is one of the many ways rich people game the system to save billions of dollars in taxes each year. Here's how it's done.

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In which we search for the quietest places within your quietest places. To see more responses, visit our website or follow us on tumblr: http://theartassignment.com.

Original assignment video: http://youtu.be/nxxpTYV2FIk.

Participants in this video: http://theartassignment.com/po....st/87210001910/quiet

Cécile McLorin Salvant is a visual artist and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, and she shares with us an art assignment. Create your own Theme and Variation Cut-Out by following the instructions below. And check out Prideland on PBS Voices!: youtube.com/pbsvoices.

1. Draw a simple outline of a human body
2. Do this until you find one you really like
3. Then draw variations of that outline playing with the limbs and proportions
4. Copy your favorite four outlines to stiff paper or cardboard
5. Cut them out, tape a piece of string to them, and hang wherever you like

Share your work with the hashtag #youareanartist and/or tag us on Instagram or Twitter. Or join our Facebook group to share your work with a community of artists:

Learn more about Cécile McLorin Salvant: http://www.cecilemclorinsalvant.com

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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. They ask you to consider the meaning of physical objects in an increasingly digital world and Make a Thing.

John Green then talks about Invader, a French street artist who travels the world and installs mosaics inspired by video games from the 70s and 80s.

INSTRUCTIONS - Make a Thing
1. Take something from the virtual world
2. Make is physical
3. Upload a photo of your physical object using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: http://theartassignment.com/

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

This 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.

John Green and Sarah Green then discusses what embarrasses us overtime and what we no longer find embarrassing. Sarah then takes us to art history to show where the "Idealized Body" began.

INSTRUCTIONS - Embarrassing Object
1. Create something that makes you feel uncomfortable, out of a material or group of materials
2. Document it and upload using #theartassignment
3. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

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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! Find the original assignment here: dft.ba/-whw

All What, How, Wheres featured in this video can be found on this link:
https://theartassignment.tumbl....r.com/post/940709007

Special thanks to Tyler Graham for the episode intro and outro and to KatieContinues, swordsmith4, leshappydinosaur, Jane83Doe, followergerrard, Théo Evans, We Are St. Elmo’s Fire, Eoin Pluinceid, laufeyha, and DrivingOnWires for sound bites.

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We come to you 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.

Sarah Green then discusses conceptual artist Michael Asher, who asks us to question the invisible boundary that art institutions create.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Find two spaces that share a boundary
2. Do something to highlight or alter the relationship between those two spaces
3. Document it in some way and upload using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: http://theartassignment.com/

Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Today's episode has been sponsored by Squarespace. For more information, visit http://www.squarespace.com/artassignment

Happy birthday to us! Welcome to the third year of The Art Assignment. We’ve got some exciting things in store:

1. We have a Google Voice number! Call us with any questions or comments at (901) 602-ARTY

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Jan Tichy joins us again this week to discuss some of your excellent submissions to his assignment Expanded Moment. Keep submitting your responses with #theartassignment!

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

Featured in this video:
Abigail Ellman: http://yearwithfear.tumblr.com..../post/104904264695/t
applejuicejadedear: https://youtu.be/5LLoBluh0KI
Grace Miller: https://youtu.be/QQznTQ1jf7U
My Charlie Quinn: https://youtu.be/hnIKaqaPxwo
CrumpArt: https://youtu.be/kQV9h077QY4
Marco: https://youtu.be/spkczdLgdeQ
Michael: https://youtu.be/j0nx4pd1pDE

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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. Find more detailed instruction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6By4XYlPIBA

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Gather old textiles (clothes, bed sheets, etc.)
2. Make a rug
3. Share your journey of making the rug and what you do on it
4. Upload it using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Fritz Haeg: http://www.fritzhaeg.com
Watch a video about his rug at LA's Hammer Museum: http://youtu.be/N9U_D3TJxD0
And here's another about his recent show at the Walker Art Center: http://youtu.be/eO1A_oRTNCs

In this episode we talk about Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés (1964--79)
See video of Parangolés performed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTr8I2M6Ps
And learn more about Oiticica:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-o....n/tate-modern/exhibi

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In which we feature responses to The Art Assignment Ep. 2: Stakeout!, given by Chicago-based artist Deb Sokolow: http://youtu.be/qbuRG-NWUuY.

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

ConVinceingVince (friends in Balboa Park): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr2rA7T6hQ0

Ajetosien (Margriet & Josien): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGCLlgCy2aw

Daisy May Smith: http://bicyclemadefortwo.tumbl....r.com/post/799302466

collegeswaggernuggets (college campus selfie project): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bM0qMy-58&feature=youtu.be--

Jane83Doe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aExyiI8gg0

Julia Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SYQUcKwA68

Kenton Visser: http://kentonblogs.tumblr.com/....post/78723653051/sta

allylucas99: http://instagram.com/p/llg0w8TXbk/

Laufey Haraldsdóttir: http://laufeyha.tumblr.com/pos....t/78441720125/the-ar

klonschaferl (Friends in Vienna): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5m-NthHEI.

Jennifer Reynolds-Strange (Jen and Sumayya): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQWo58fdmCc

Danielle Vaughn (Harvey): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vmVpDjN16c

Joanna Volavka (frog w peppermints): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqW_EFjyu_Q

venjb (you are beautiful mirror box): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmCWBP4g4a4

CzarMadeline (pennies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZX_pT_Ok3g

Geeksdanz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-lFMEWQVo
The Art Assignment #2 - Stakeout Pt. 2 - "Forsaken Bubbles"

Lin Hai Wen: http://linhaiwen.wordpress.com..../2014/03/07/the-art-
Box of chocolates "for you": http://davidandlucy.blogspot.c....o.uk/2014/03/assignm

VidsByBrad (homer simpson bookmark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3aBBsF4JoY&list=UU1plh9pszUr1vjjCINDbwVw

JoyLyte: http://youtu.be/yg-YqG0vaYw

Jeffrey Lanzini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skv07DNrcpQ

Cynicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxPABgLaBAo