You Are an Artist

A few years ago curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct a landscape, find your band, and become someone else (or at least try). Your challenge is to filter these assignments through the lens of your own experience and make art that reflects the world as you see it.

You don't have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or mix a paint colour that perfectly matches that of a mountain stream. This book is for anyone who wants to make art, regardless of experience level. The only materials you'll need are what you already have on hand or can source for free.

You Are an Artist brings together more than 50 assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner, The Guerrilla Girls, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nina Katchadourian, Toyin Ojih Odutola, J. Morgan Puett, Dread Scott, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, and many others.

In urma cu cativa ani, curatorul Sarah Urist Green si-a parasit biroul in subsolul unui muzeu de arta pentru a calatori si a vizita o gama variata de artisti, cerandu-le sa impartaseasca instructiuni legate de propriile lor moduri de lucru. Rezultatul este Tu esti artist, o calatorie a creatiei prin care vei inventa prieteni imaginati, vei sorta carti, vei declara o cauza, vei construi un peisaj, vei gasi trupa ta si vei deveni altcineva (sau cel putin vei incerca).