About Sarah Urist Green
Sarah Urist Green is a curator and art educator seeking to demystify the worlds of art, artists, and museums for wide audiences. Green is the creator of The Art Assignment, an educational web series developed in partnership with PBS and Complexly. Since launching in 2013, The Art Assignment has grown to become one of the most widely viewed and respected art education projects online, with over 500,000 subscribers and nearly 30 million total views.
With the 2020 release of her book You Are an Artist, Green combines art history with art prompts offered by some of the most innovative artists working today. The book has helped thousands of "aspiring artists and makers to open their imaginations and begin to create," as NPR put it.
Green is the former curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where she organized the exhibitions Graphite and Andy Warhol Enterprises, among others, and was instrumental in developing The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres. 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 and two children.
About The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment is an educational video series that introduces you to innovative artists, presents you with assignments, and explores art history through the lens of the present. The series premiered in 2014 as a co-production of PBS Digital Studios and Complexly, with episodes featuring emerging and established artists who share assignments relates to their approaches to art. The episodes serve as open calls for makers around the world, and thousands of artworks have been created and shared in response.
The series has since expanded and evolved, offering a wide range of content in an ongoing effort to demystify art and art history for broad audiences. Our Case For series makes arguments for the continued relevance of movements, artists, and types of art. Through our Art Cooking series, we explore the life, work, and eating habits of artists you know and (maybe) love. With Art Trip, we bring along for the ride as we investigate the art offerings of locations as disparate as Venice, Italy, and Marfa, Texas. Other episodes delve into questions and criticisms that arise about art, and explore alternative art histories.
Designed to be used in the classroom or enjoyed independently, The Art Assignment works to demonstrate the diversity, accessibility, and relevance of art and artists. Celebrating risk-taking in the creative process, The Art Assignment exposes you to alternative approaches to art-making, now and throughout art history.