ART 20S Students: 

The challenges below are intended to encourage you to expand your creativity, challenge yourself to do something new, and play with ideas and materials to CREATE something new.

Each assignment requires that you do a bit of research about an artist (keep this in your idea journal) and also try out an art-making activity.

Instructions:
  1. Start by choosing one assignment to explore from the list, below. Between now and May 1st, you will work on between 4 and 7 of the choices below, and submit your documentation (photos/video) on Edsby.
  2. I have linked some INFO to each artist's name - just click on the artist's name to see it. For each option, you can either do the prompt first and then research the artist OR research the artist and then do the prompt. To "research" the artist you can watch the video(s) linked to the name of the artist, or research their work on your own (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) in order to answer the questions provided here in your idea journal. For each of these options, make sure to document the whole experience through PHOTOS or VIDEO! ​
  3. "Researching" the artist means recording the following in your sketchbook:
    1. 3 things you find interesting about the video / the artist's work
    2. 1 question you have about the artist or their process
    3. An explanation of how the prompt might relate to the artist’s work (sometimes it will relate to a specific artwork that they have made, sometimes it will relate to an idea or overall attitude that the artist has)
  4. Once you begin working on the challenge, be light on your feet, play around, have fun, share online with your friends, involve your family. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING with photos. Making things grounds us and helps us feel a little control in times of uncertainty. Use your creative brain to keep your thoughts towards having fun and MAKING ART. Find the joy you can in making stuff, while we're away from each other! :)

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Sister Corita Kent - One Day Challenge
“Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.”  Where in your home do you feel the most comfortable? Go there and make a drawing of it. Add colour. You choose the angle and framing.

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​Guy Ben-Ner - Two Day Challenge
On your own or with family members make a movie re-creating your favourite movie/book/show/comic using what is around you for costumes and props. No longer than 5 minutes long once edited, please!

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​Guy Ben-Ner - One Day Challenge​
Make a fort and stay in it for at least an hour. Write about the experience.

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Tara Donovan - One Day Challenge​
Create a sculpture of many of one thing (eg, only cups, only chairs, only shoes, only shopping bags, only LEGO, etc). Arrange, stack, balance, etc until you think it looks interesting. Don’t break anything. Take a picture of what you made and then put everything back where you found it.

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​Rammellzee - One Day Challenge​
Imagine you’ve time travelled from the future. What would you tell us? How? Design a vehicle that you will use to continue to travel in time.

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​Chris Ware  - Two Day Challenge
Create a 10 panel comic about a day in your life at home during the school closure OR Create an ongoing comic for each day that you are at home. 

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​David Rathman - One Day Challenge​
Use a sentence cut out from a magazine or found in a book as a starting point for a drawing. The sentence does NOT need to be a part of the artwork.

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Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber - Two Day Challenge​
Make several drawings of the same thing. Give/show them to a different friend or family member and ask them to come up with a caption for each one. Write it down on each drawing. Each drawing should have a different caption.

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Nathaniel Russell - One Day Challenge​
Choose one: Create a poster for an imaginary event OR Invent a band and design a cover for their first album or single OR Create a book cover for a book that does not yet exist.

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Sonny Assu - One Day Challenge​
Take a popular brand or recognizable packaging and transform it to say something unexpected.

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​John Cage - One Day Challenge
Sit in silence with your eyes closed for as long as you can bear. Record what you hear and/or think about. Make a collage/drawing/painting about it.

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Rebecca Belmore - One Day Challenge
In your idea journal, design a device that would help you to announce all your feelings to the world. What would that look like? What would you announce?

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Marcel Dzama - One Day Challenge​
On separate pieces of paper (that you can pass around), create a series of collaborative drawings with family members.

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​Janine Antoni - One Day Challenge​
Create an abstract family tree, or a 2D work that represents your family without acutally drawing/painting pictures of them.

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​Krzystof Wodiczko - Two Day Challenge
Record video stories from one or more family members and cut them into a short film, no longer than 5 minutes.

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​Robin Rhode - One Day Challenge​
Create a work of art inspired by poetry or song lyrics and exhibit the work alongside the poem.

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​Hiwa K - One Day Challenge​
Create a work of art that educates others about a specific local or global plight. Publish this work in some way (Instagram, Snapchat, posters, etc.).

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​Stephanie Syjuco - One Day Challenge
Create a slogan for a banner or sign. Print the words on paper using large type. Crumple, fold, or otherwise manipulate the sheet of paper until the printed words say or suggest something different than the original slogan. What does the new version reveal?

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​Lynn Hershman Leeson - Two Day Challenge​
Develop an alternate persona for yourself based on a personal experience or favorite story. Write down a set of characteristics and create sketches and composite images to envision other details about this character. Pick a day, or a few hours, to perform this persona. Afterward, reflect on what the experience taught you or led you to consider.

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​Lynn Hershman Leeson - Two Day Challenge
Create a multimedia work that simultaneously utilizes and critiques technology.

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​Tim Hawkinson - Two Day Challenge
Create or conceptualize two works of visual art, creative writing, or performance: one should represent saving time, and one should represent the passage of time. What materials and methods will you use for each representation?

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​Raymond Pettibon - One Day Challenge
Keep track of what makes you laugh over the course of a day or a week, and make a chart identifying what kinds of humor inspires you to laugh. Create an artwork, stand-up comedy routine, dance, or theatre performance that uses the various elements of humor you have collected.

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Gabriel Oroczo - One Day Challenge
Orozco’s segment opens as he is taking one of his daily walks. Use a daily walk to explore your familiarity with your immediate surroundings. Document your walk by using a camera, a journal, or other means. Create a collage (digital or printed) or installation using the documentation you have collected.

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​Janine Antoni - Two Day Challenge
​What can your older relatives do that you don't know how to do? Embroider? Bead? Carve wood?  Adopt a skill or craft from a family member or ancestor and use it to make a work of art. 

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​Trenton Doyle Hancock - One Day Challenge
Hancock has many objects in his studio that once belonged to his family. He calls these objects “echoes,” and says that because they are in his presence the objects “echo” into his work. How are these “echoes” apparent in his work? What are the important items that you have from your friends or family that create specific “echoes” for you? Create an artwork inspired by one or more of your “echoes”.

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Make me a proposal!  Find an artist whose work inspires you to make art and give yourself a challenging assignment to complete.