The Art Assignment

Join the Art Assignment community for projects with great American contemporary artists.

Episodes

  • Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials): asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials)

    S6 Ep32 |
    Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK.
  • Become Someone Else - Tameka Norris: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Become Someone Else - Tameka Norris

    S2 Ep1 |
    We’re talking about your responses to Tameka Norris’s assignment to Become Someone Else.
  • Notes from New Orleans: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Notes from New Orleans

    S1 Ep50 |
    We visited New Orleans for the Prospect.3 exhibition.
  • Encounters / Encuentros - Dignicraft: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Encounters / Encuentros - Dignicraft

    S1 Ep49 |
    Dignicraft gives us the assignment to facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro.
  • Movement Telephone - Ryan McNamara: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Movement Telephone - Ryan McNamara

    S1 Ep48 |
    Performance artist Ryan McNamara asks you to play a game of MOVEMENT TELEPHONE.
  • Emotional Furniture - Christoph Niemann: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Emotional Furniture - Christoph Niemann

    S1 Ep47 |
    Christoph Niemann offers a challenge of finding the emotion in furniture.
  • Relative Strangers - Laurel Nakadate: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Relative Strangers - Laurel Nakadate

    S1 Ep46 |
    Laurel Nakadate makes art by connecting with strangers.
  • Please Do Not Touch: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Please Do Not Touch

    S1 Ep45 |
    When is it appropriate to touch art?
  • The Art Assignment: Vidcon Edition: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Art Assignment: Vidcon Edition

    S1 Ep44 |
    At VidCon 2014, we ask some of our favorite vloggers and hosts to do an Art Assignment.

Specials

  • Public Art Trip: New York City: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Public Art Trip: New York City

    On this trip, we focus on the abundant public art around New York City.

About The Art Assignment

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