YOU ARE AN ARTIST

When Sarah Urist Green created the PBS video series The Art Assignment, she wanted to share the work of incredible contemporary artists and invite people around the world to follow in their footsteps. This book is the result of that project: a fantastically imaginative and wide-ranging series of creative projects that invite you to different artists' approaches to better explore your own.

Within these pages, you'll find step-by-step instructions for participating in creative challenges presented to you by artists ranging from MoMA's Pablo Helguera to the Guerilla Girls. You'll also find biographies of the artists, historical background, inspiring quotes, and further resources for exploration. Whether it's photographing sorted books, creating an imaginary friend, engaging in a stakeout, making paper weavings, or another novel idea, the projects in YOU ARE AN ARTIST personally invite you to participate and engage with art history to brilliant effect.

Sarah Urist Green is the creator, curator, and host of The Art Assignment, an educational video series produced in partnership with PBS Digital Studios that focuses on the creative process and the act of making. She is also the former curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She holds a master of arts in modern art history from Columbia University and a bachelor of arts from Northwestern University. She lives in Indianapolis with her husband, young adult author John Green, and their two children.