The Art Assignment

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

Episodes

  • The Case for Land Art

    Look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.
  • Art Cooking: Georgia O'Keeffe

    GEORGIA O'KEEFFE was a groundbreaking artist, but also a serious health food enthusiast.
  • Better Know the Great Wave

    Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced.
  • Art Trip: PST: LA/LA

    We take a trip to LA and look at the Getty-funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
  • The Case for Copying

    Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing.
  • Art Cooking: Futurist Meat Sculpture

    Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised b
  • We Love PBS | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

    Tell us what you love about public media using #IlovePBS
  • Better Know the Mona Lisa

    She's probably the most famous artwork of all time, but what do you know about her?

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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.