You Are an Artist: Sarah Urist Green's book (2019)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2020-04-14) · last mentioned: 2022-02-15
Sarah Urist Green's book You Are an Artist, a collection of art assignments, was announced in September 2019 and opened for pre-order, and came out on 14 April 2020. The tour John planned for it did not happen.
Parts: John asks viewers to get Sarah's book You Are an Artist (2019) · John: Sarah's virtual book tour will still be wonderful (2020)
Told alongside: John: tour with Hank and Sarah for A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor and You Are an Artist (2020) · The Art Assignment: Sarah's PBS Digital Studios show (2013)
About: Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-10 | proposed | John announces that Sarah is publishing a book called You Are an Artist, so many more people are about to learn from her. | Another Contender in the Room 00:01:56 |
| 2019-09-10 | milestone | John says You Are an Artist is available for pre-order now wherever you get books and comes out on April 14th. | Another Contender in the Room 00:02:55 |
| 2020-01-07 | milestone | John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist, a collection of art assignments and creativity prompts with lots of art history, comes out in April; the galleys are here and it is available for pre-order. | Endings · Beginnings 00:02:16 |
| 2020-03-03 | announced | In a P.S., John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist comes out in April, is wonderful, and is available for pre-order now. | Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity 00:03:24 |
| 2020-03-31 | milestone | In a comment John recommends Sarah's book You Are An Artist, out April 14th, for anyone seeking more ways to be calm and engaged with the world. | Let's take a walk. creator comment |
| 2020-04-07 | milestone | John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist comes out a week from today; the finished copies just arrived and it is a beautiful book. | I am an artist. 00:00:13 |
| 2020-04-14 | outcome | John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist comes out today. (playful) | books that help 00:00:00 |
| 2020-12-29 | looked back | Sarah's book You Are an Artist and Hank's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor both came out, but the touring John planned for them did not happen. | Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:01:56 |
| 2021-10-14 | looked back | John uses many assignments from Sarah's book, most often Never Seen, Never Will: articulating something you know exists but will never see, his way into realizing he doesn't know almost everything. | Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday 00:02:29 |
| 2021-11-16 | looked back | In a comment John says the video was inspired by an assignment in Sarah Urist Green's book You Are an Artist. | Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space creator comment |
| 2022-02-15 | looked back | John loves Sarah's book You Are an Artist and uses it to think creatively; this copy is valuable because Sarah signed it with a lovely inscription. | My Most Valuable Books 00:01:56 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — recommendation: John says anyone interested in making stuff or understanding how it gets made will love the book because, as its title says, you are an artist whether you know it yet or not. — 00:02:26
- 2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says the book taught him much about art and how life-giving the act of creation is for humans. — 00:02:26
- 2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — John: Quoting the title of Sarah's book, John says you are an artist if you make any kind of art at any time. — 00:01:41
- 2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — recommendation: John loves that the book humanizes art, showing ideas come from regular life, such as a kid's kindergarten paper weaving (one he and Alice made together) or journaling. — 00:01:47
- 2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — ask: John: For viewers who can't afford a book, John says local libraries may have You Are an Artist free, including e-book and audiobook versions. (hedged) — 00:02:57
- 2020-04-14 · books that help — John: Doing the book's assignment from artist Nina Katchadourian, John sorts book spines into portraits: one of Sarah, and a self-portrait about the current historical moment. (playful) — 00:00:13
- 2020-04-14 · books that help — recommendation: John says Sarah's book gets readers collaborating with friends across time and space and generally engaging with the world in thoughtful and artistic ways, and says he is so glad it is here at last. — 00:00:49
- 2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — John: Recalling a passage from You Are an Artist, John says Dürer's 1515 rhinoceros etching shows plates of armor with rivets; Dürer had never seen a rhinoceros, only a description and a small sketch. — 00:00:00