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Create an imaginary friend. | JooYoung Choi | The Art Assignment
We introduce you to the talented and amazing JooYoung Choi, who shares tales of her fictional realm The Cosmic Womb and beckons us to create our own IMAGINARY FRIEND.
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Explore variations of white. | Odili Donald Odita | The Art Assignment
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.
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Make a Rug | The Art Assignment | Fritz Haeg
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.
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Exquisite Corpse | Hugo Crosthwaite | The Art Assignment
This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. Hugo asks you to create a collaborative drawing by playing the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse.
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Conjure a studio. | Hope Ginsburg | The Art Assignment
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... -...
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Create a vehicular palette. | Jesse Sugarmann | The Art Assignment
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...
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Bring a sound to life. | Jamal Cyrus | The Art Assignment
We meet up with artist Jamal Cyrus in his hometown of Houston, Texas, where we broach the topic of "postmodernism" and are challenged to summon an impossible sound.
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What's Your Problem? | Ghana Think Tank | The Art Assignment
This week we head to Tijuana, Mexico to talk with John Ewing, Carmen Montoya, and Christopher Robbins of Ghana Think Tank, who are working on a project to encourage communication at the U.S-Mexico border.
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Body in Place | Maria Gaspar | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Maria Gaspar, an artist deeply invested in her community on the west side of Chicago. For her assignment, she asks you to engage with your community by adding yourself to the picture.
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Vanessa Hill of BrainCraft | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft, a production of PBS Digital Studios, which explores psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Repousse (Metal Tooling) with Geometric and Organic Shapes
This video lesson will teach you how to create a repousse using 36 gauge copper and wooden sticks. The project includes a design extention onto black paper using colored pencils.
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Draw a shape that represents you. | Tschabalala Self | The Art Assignment
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.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Custom Shoe Charms with Shrink Plastic!
Custom Shoe Charms with Shrink Plastic!
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The Case for Performance Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of performance art and attempt to sway you to its potential charms.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Clay Coil Vessels - Cleaning and Finishing
Cleaning and Finishing a Clay Coil Vessel
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The Case for Ai Weiwei | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless, and was once named the most powerful artist in the world. Who is Ai Weiwei? And why is he considered one of the most renowned artists of our time?
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Polymer Clay Charm Lesson: Keychain Tutorial PART 1
Polymer Clay Charm Lesson: Keychain Tutorial PART 1
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Fiber Knotted Keychain with Clay Charm, Part 2
Fiber Knotted Keychain with Clay Charm, Part 2
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Needle Felting: Attaching Body Parts and Adding Details
This video will teach you how to needle felt body parts together to form a creature or animal, as well as how to add fine details like a face. I recommend you watch and learn how to needle felt basic forms first using my needle felting...
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Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
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...
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Landscape Archaeology | Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly | The Art Assignment
This week we speak to collaborating artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and learn about their approach to learning about and working with landscapes.
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The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds...