Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h 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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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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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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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:
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We then discussed artists like Mel Bochner that used the photocopier in their conceptual art since its beginnings.

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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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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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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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The Met Museum in New York is a treasure trove of art, filled with masterpieces of human creativity, but what if it *wasn't* organized geographically or by time period? Is there a better way?

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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, and Paola Rodriguez give us the assignment to facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro, a form of community building.

Sarah Green then explores social practice with the work of Nicolas Bourriaud, who suggests that the rise of urbanization after World War II gave raise to art that is also urbanized.

INSTRUCTIONS - Encounters / Encuentros
1. Think of two people who you know who have similar interests but don't know each other
2. Facilitate a collaboration by introducing them and suggesting they do something together
3. Document the experience
4. Upload to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)

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Check out Google’s Science http://g.co/sciencejournal
Sister Corita Kent was a master printmaker and teacher, and her rules for artists and teachers are legendary - let’s break them down. Watch Say it Loud!: https://bit.ly/2CfPRt2.

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#art #arthistory #coritakent

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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 operating a Complaints Department.

INSTRUCTIONS - The Art of Complaining
1. Think of something you really want to complain about
2. Communicate your message in a unique, creative way
3. Share it on your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about The Guerrilla Girls: https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

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This week we review some of the best responses to David Brooks's Art Assignment Ep. 4 -- Never Seen, Never Will: http://youtu.be/slCnZzsETVM.

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Many thanks to our participants who were featured:
-Jennifer: http://jenniferjamboree.tumblr.....com/post/8229205486
-Dafidaf: http://dafidaf.tumblr.com/post..../83115754756/18-4-14
-Laufey Haraldsdóttir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woloy-nnecM
-David Devine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSkZo8ROnRY
-Why-in-the-night-sky (father portrait): http://why-in-the-night-sky.tu....mblr.com/post/818452
-Nadia: http://nadiact1000.tumblr.com/....post/82149583863/the
-S.E. Vidrio: http://sethvidrio.blogspot.com..../2014/04/i-made-thin
-Abby: http://peppermintscribe.tumblr.....com/post/8176264898
-theemcyclopedia: http://theeemcyclopedia.tumblr.....com/post/8102833530
- iconiclly: http://iconiclly.tumblr.com/po....st/80930948194/for-t
- Leonie Connellan:http://onceuponaspacetime.tumb....lr.com/post/83184839
-Wes!ey Films and Projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJBNqhhBNk&feature=youtu.be

Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA. Subscribe to Ours Poetica to receive regular doses of fresh poetry three times a week!: https://www.youtube.com/ourspoetica.
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Thanks to Kaveh Akbar (http://kavehakbar.com) and Paige Lewis (https://paigelewispoetry.com) for joining us and lending their reading talents. Explore more of O'Hara's work!: https://bit.ly/2SKIJvZ

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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

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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?

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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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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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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

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

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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)