Hi, I'm Sarah Urist Green.
And I'm John Green.
And we want to thank you all for your amazing responses
to Toyin's assignment.
Yeah, there have been so many wonderful,
intimate, indispensable, GIFs.
Or GIFs.
We've seen artists explore the indispensability of the line.
SARAH URIST GREEN: Or we've seen people
showing the spinning wheel of their wheelchair.
JOHN GREEN: Or this person who showed a metaphorical heart
and an anatomical brain.
And the responses to the first two assignments
continue to pour in and amaze us.
So in the hazy, distant past, before Sarah had a cold
and I got a haircut, we recorded a video for you
where we answered questions that we've been receiving
about "The Art Assignment."
So we wanted to share that with you now.
OK, Eric asks, how many episodes will be in each season,
and how much time will be between seasons?
Good question, Eric.
We don't know.
How far do you want us to look into the future?
Someday, Eric, we're all going to be dead.
Are you ever in an airport, and you
look at all the people in the airport,
and you think about how they're all going to be dead?
No.
Really?
Are you a terrorist?
No, I don't mean like that I'm going to kill them.
[LAUGHTER]
I just mean like I mean that time will kill them.
Someone else asks, are there going
to be any art assignments for those of us
who are really poor, with no car, in a suburban area?
I'd like to participate.
Yes, actually, episodes one and two
were designed for you in particular.
I think that you can do these.
In fact, several people have done them
in a really creative way, like that person who
met their dog in the middle.
Yeah, or their baby in the hallway.
It's really just a question of how
are you going to use the resources at your disposal,
use the particular life that you have,
to try to make the assignment happen.
Little bit of loveliness asks, do the artists you feature
create the assignments?
Or is it a collaborative effort with PBS?
We commission the artist to create the assignment.
So they're coming directly from the artists.
It's their ideas, it's what they've come up with for you.
Joe Harris out of Mason asks, what
do you suggest I do if I don't have access
to doing the full assignment?
Is there something smaller I can do that has the same meaning?
You can interpret these projects anyway you want.
There are no strict rules here.
But I would say that there's going
to be a lot of assignments, so you can wait until there's one
that you really want to do, if it doesn't work for you.
What our ideas that you have for raising kids
with good art appreciation?
I think you can talk about art with them.
Kids like to talk about art, and they don't necessarily
think of it as art.
You can take them to museums, take them to art parks.
Talk about the visual world around you.
You can show them art Tumblers and Twitters and stuff.
You don't have to go to a museum to see art.
I think it's helpful.
But if you don't have a museum close to you,
the great thing about the internet
is that we have super high-res art all over the internet now.
And kids don't have any preconceptions about art.
So they don't really have to unlearn anything.
So it's really fun to talk about art with them.
I remember once I take Henry to see a Lee Bontecou show.
And he looked into one of them, and it's like a big dark hole.
And he just paused and he goes, is there a bear in there?
[LAUGHTER]
NZF Penguin asks, what is your personal definition of art?
I don't really have one.
And I'm OK with that.
That's a great answer.
To me it's like your personal definition of writing.
The harder you think about it, and the more you get into it,
the less it's definable.
Right.
I like the old Supreme Court Justice line about pornography,
I know it when I see it.
Our good friend Hannah Hart asks,
how do you respond to the statement I just
don't like art, without being like, that's like saying you
just don't like sandwiches.
There are many different kinds of sandwiches.
Find a sandwich that speaks to you.
Oh Hannah, you've read my mind.
That is truly, truly, perfectly.
Nashif asks, so my drive to work is like a Picasso?
Well, I don't know.
What does your drive to work look like?
Yeah, it depends on your drive to work.
Rosie Designs asks, are there are
deadlines for each of these?
I had no idea the episodes would be weekly.
I'm trying to find the time to do it.
No deadlines.
We're going to keep reviewing videos as they come in.
So don't think that there is a due date.
Yeah, and we're going to show our favorites,
I mean even if it's a year from now,
we'll still be showing our favorite
meet in the middles and our favorite stake outs.
Yeah, and we hope this is something
that you can come back to again and again.
Like, if you feel like doing a meet
in the middle in the summer, go for it.
But also do it now.
Hi!
Us from the future again.
There will be a new art assignment for you next week.
But in the meantime, please follow us
on Tumbler, where you can see responses to art
assignments every single day.
There's a link below.
Thank you so much for watching.