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Son Lux invited you to collaborate with him by responding to a piece of his music, and you all delivered in as many forms as possible.

We continue our stay at Mildred's Lane and talk to it's Director and Ambassador of Entanglement J. Morgan Puett about it's origins, it's goals and how her installation art practice influences her vision for the site.

This week we visit Lenka Clayton, another Pittsburgh based artist whose work finds meaning in ordinary, everyday objects. For her assignment, she asks you to partner with someone and recreate a lost childhood object, using their memory of the object and the materials you have around you.

So you look at a work of art and think to yourself, I could have done that. And maybe you really could have, but the issue here is more complex than that -- why didn't you? Why did the artist? And why does it have an audience?

This week we meet with Jon Rubin, a Pittsburgh based artist whose practice often focuses on cultural exchange, pushing us to imagine other people and their lives more complexly. For his assignment, he asks you to do the same by bridging the gap between you and your neighbor.

This week we sit down with artist Desirée Holman to talk about her current project, Sophont, which explores ideas of science fiction, aliens, new-age ideology, mysticism, and tech culture. Her assignment asks you to become a science fiction character by creating and wearing some kind of psionics hardware that enhances your character's abilities.

We come to you this week from San Francisco's Exploratorium, where we met with artist-in-residence Zarouhie Abdalian. For her assignment, she wants you to focus on boundaries and the relationships between the spaces they separate.

This week's assignment comes from Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, who cofounded THE THING Quarterly, a publication that distributes everyday objects conceived of by different artists. They ask you to consider the meaning of physical objects in an increasingly digital world and Make a Thing.

Indianapolis-based artist Brian McCutcheon asks you to Customize It!

This week we try our hand at one of those top 10 lists we keep seeing on the Interwebs these days. Specifically, we're going to talk about ten ideas that led to the idea of this very show!

The Art Assignment continues its journey through New Orleans with Brandan "BMike" Odums, the mastermind behind "ExhibitBE", a collaborative street art exhibition that transformed an unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now he's asking YOU to do something similar.

At VidCon 2014, we hit up some of our favorite vloggers and hosts and asked them to do an Art Assignment. Any one of their choosing!

Oliver Blank gives an update on some of the best responses to his challenge.

We review some of the best responses to the 'Desktop Monument' assignment.

Artist Oliver Blank explores our sense of time and place through public installations.

We discuss the conventions of art critique.

Lee Boroson assigns us to create a desktop creation.

We review some of the best responses to the 'Photo a Friend' assignment.

We meet up with photographer Tanja Hollander on her epic journey around the world.

We met with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe.

We review some of the best responses to the 'Find Your Band' assignment.

Artist Nina Katchadourian takes us on her journey of sorting an old book collection.

We review some of the best responses to the 'Sorted Books assignment'.

We review some of the best responses to the 'Imprint' assignment.

We visit the Kansas City shop of designer Peggy Noland and talk to her about influence.