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The Art Assignment: Sarah's PBS Digital Studios show (2013)

project history · status: last documented in 2020 (looked back on in 2023) · last event: milestone (2020-04-07) · last mentioned: 2023-12-24

The Art Assignment is a PBS Digital Studios show curated and hosted by Sarah Urist Green and made with John, in which contemporary artists give viewers art assignments. It was announced in autumn 2013 when Sarah left the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and its first episode premiered in February 2014.

Parts: John asks viewers to subscribe to The Art Assignment (2013) · John invites viewers to do The Art Assignment's meet-in-the-middle assignment with a friend and share it (2014)

Told alongside: John asks viewers to get Sarah's book You Are an Artist (2019) · John's wife Sarah as 'the Yeti' (2007) · John: tour with Hank and Sarah for A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor and You Are an Artist (2020) · John: make at least four episodes of Cooking History with Sarah in 2018 (2018) · You Are an Artist: Sarah Urist Green's book (2019) · Crash Course partnership with PBS Digital Studios and its four new courses for 2015 (2014)

About: The Art Assignment, Sarah Urist Green, PBS Digital Studios, Indianapolis Museum of Art

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2013-09-24 announced In the description John says he and Sarah are working together on a new show called The Art Assignment. Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared video description
2013-10-22 announced John announces Sarah is leaving the Indianapolis Museum of Art to curate and host The Art Assignment, a show with PBS Digital. Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition 00:02:26
2014-02-21 launched Hank announces the first episode of The Art Assignment is online now. Ranting about Books 00:03:45
2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) launched John reports that Sarah's new PBS show The Art Assignment has just premiered. John and Chris Meet in the Middle 00:00:36
2014-03-28 looked back Hank counts The Art Assignment, made with PBS and Sarah Green, among the recently launched channels. New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! 00:01:29
2014-05-27 milestone Sarah's new show The Art Assignment is going great, with a new assignment from artist Kate Gilmore and a thriving community making everything from gifs to sculptures. ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) 00:02:11
2014-11-07 looked back Hank announces a significantly larger relationship with PBS Digital Studios that will basically double Crash Course content; PBS is likewise viewer-funded and partnered with them on Frankenstein MD and The Art Assignment. New Crash Course and Pizzamas! 00:02:18
2015-03-24 looked back John says the ACA does not seem to hurt the job market and has brought labor-market freedom: Sarah Green could leave her insurance-providing museum job to start an art show with PBS Digital. (hedged) Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later 00:04:22
2015-05-12 looked back John explains that he and Sarah make The Art Assignment with PBS Digital: they visit contemporary artists around the country who give viewers art assignments. Becoming Someone Else 00:00:17
2018-01-02 milestone John praises Art Cooking, a series on Sarah's PBS Digital channel The Art Assignment (e.g. Salvador Dali's crawfish tower), for teaching food and cooking together with art. BRING IT IN 2018 00:00:27
2019-09-10 looked back John says he has read and helped edit Sarah's writing, including the wall labels she wrote as a museum curator and the Art Assignment videos she now writes for her PBS Digital series. Another Contender in the Room 00:00:58
2020-03-03 looked back John says that over six years Sarah has shown millions what is important about the art world, and shown the art world what is important about the rest of the world. Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity 00:01:56
2020-04-07 milestone John films in front of a new temporary background: the new temporary headquarters of The Art Assignment, Sarah's YouTube channel with PBS Digital Studios. I am an artist. 00:00:00
2023-12-24 (happened 2014-02) looked back John says the first episode of The Art Assignment comes out in late February. John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:34:23

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