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.
  • The Case for Impressionism: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Case for Impressionism

    S6 Ep14 |
    Why Impressionism is interesting and worth your attention and admiration.
  • How to Sound like you Understand Art: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    How to Sound like you Understand Art

    S6 Ep13 |
    Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art.
  • What Did Monet Eat in a Day?: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    What Did Monet Eat in a Day?

    S6 Ep12 |
    The life, art, and eating habits of the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
  • Art and Empathy: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art and Empathy

    S6 Ep10 |
    Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work?
  • Whose Migrant Mother was this?: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Whose Migrant Mother was this?

    S6 Ep9 |
    Whose Migrant Mother was this?
  • How Climate Changes Art: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    How Climate Changes Art

    S6 Ep8 |
    How Climate Changes Art
  • Art We Launched Into Space: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art We Launched Into Space

    S6 Ep7 |
    There is plenty of art ABOUT space, but this video explores art ACTUALLY IN space.
  • What Does Resistance Look Like?: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    What Does Resistance Look Like?

    S6 Ep6 |
    What Does Resistance Look Like?

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.