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The Art Assignment

August 28, 2015

An assignment that I wrote "Lost Childhood Object" is featured in an episode of The Art Assignment on PBS Digital. I hope that you will watch and take part!

From The Art Assignment's website: "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. Here are your instructions:

1. Ask someone to describe an object they made or cherished as a child. Make a mental image of that object
2. Create the object
3. Give the object back to the person (Ideally, you'd do this project in tandem)
4. Document and upload using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)"

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This is about one quarter of the quilt so far made from quilt bits started but hever finished by other people, made over the last 120 years or so. There are currently about 50-60 abandoned quilts represented. I might continue adding onto it forever.
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