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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.

Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant

6m 50s

Cécile McLorin Salvant is a visual artist and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, and she shares with us an art assignment on creating your own Theme and Variation Cut-Out.

Episodes

  • Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant

    S6 E28 - 6m 50s

    Cécile McLorin Salvant is a visual artist and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, and she shares with us an art assignment on creating your own Theme and Variation Cut-Out.

  • What This Painting Tells Us About Frida Kahlo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What This Painting Tells Us About Frida Kahlo

    S6 E24 - 9m 26s

    The artist Frida Kahlo is a larger-than-life icon, known for the masterful self-portraits she made during her turbulent life (1907 - 1954). We take a close look at her painting The Two Fridas (Las Dos Fridas), and consider what it tells us (and doesn't) about her as a person and her wider body of work.

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    The Case for Video Games

    S6 E22 - 12m 45s

    Video Games are fun, but are they art? Heck yes. We explore the history and present of video games and what sets them apart as a means of artistic expression.

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    Art Therapize Yourself

    S6 E20 - 12m

    What is Art Therapy? How can you use aspects of it in your next art encounter? We explore these questions at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art with art therapist Lauren Daugherty.

  • Art and Empathy: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Art and Empathy

    S6 E10 - 16m 2s

    Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work? Looking back through art history, we find many moments when art has allowed us to share in the feelings of others, from Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to representations of the Buddhist deity Jizō Bosatsu.

  • Art We Launched Into Space: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Art We Launched Into Space

    S6 E7 - 14m 9s

    There is plenty of art ABOUT space, but this video explores art ACTUALLY IN space. Learn about cosmonauts sketching orbital sunrises, the Moon Museum, Carl Sagan's Golden Record, and the sculptures currently orbiting Earth today, among other works of space art

  • A Video Game about Art?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Video Game about Art?

    S6 E5 - 15m 5s

    When we heard there was a video game about art and curating, we had to give it a try. Watch us play Occupy White Walls and build and curate an art gallery of our dreams (well, almost).

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    Should Art Be Publicly Funded?

    S6 E3 - 11m 52s

    Public funding for the arts is a hotly-debated topic, but let's look at where arts funding goes, what it accomplishes, and how we compare internationally.

  • Eat Like Andy Warhol: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Eat Like Andy Warhol

    S6 E1 - 17m 26s

    From Coca-Cola, Cornflakes, and Campbell's Tomato Soup, to a single mushroom, a banana, and a giant piece of meat, we step our way through the industrially-produced foods that Andy Warhol both ate and also venerated in his art. Let's eat like Andy.

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