The Mission: Using any artistic medium you like, make a pledge to yourself that you will continue to find ways to be creative. Show and/or tell us how you will make your own Artpocalypse part of your life going forward…

The Mission: Make a drawing or painting that depicts an everyday/mundane scene or task, but is presented in a style that mimics of one of your favorite famous art masterpieces.…

The Mission: If you’re feeling like I am this week, you are a.) not enjoying being an adult and b.) needing a break from reality. Let’s try to address both issues with this week’s assignment: Embrace your childhood by fingerpainting a scene that feels like an escape. Be as literal or as abstract as you like, and use actual fingerpaints or some other viscous substance as your paint, as long as your hands are your brushes…

The Mission: Write a song or poem to or about a former love - not one you’re with now, but someone you used to date, be married to, have a crush on, have a fling with, love, like, lust after, etc. Doesn’t have to be hateful, resentful, or antagonistic (but certainly can be) - just has to be about a certain someone from your past.…

The Mission: Every Olympic host develops a set of pictograms representing the various sports. Usually, they are similar in style to the host city’s Olympic logo or borrow elements from it. You can see examples of this year’s set about 3/4 of the way down this page here. For this assignment, pick an Olympic sport (or a few of them) and develop your own pictogram for it, ideally tying it in some way to a city of your choosing…

The Mission: Oscar nominations came out recently, and Yorgos Lanthimos has another movie in his signature, shall we say, “unique” style nominated for best picture. This week, write a pitch for a movie (essentially a synopsis of the plot) in the style of Yorgos. If you’re not familiar with (or don’t care for) him, choose another director to emulate in your pitch and let us know who it is…

The Mission: With most of us in the path of Winter Storm Fern, this week’s assignment is to make art from snow. We’ll keep this wide open - sculptures made of snow, snow men, art made IN snow, snow melted to use in inks… whatever you like…

The Mission: In honor of one of our very own Artpocalypsers, who will be celebrating her new published collection of poetry at a book launch held on this assignment’s due date: Write a poem from the perspective of a blue collar worker - about their life, some aspect of their job, or a related subject. Bonus points if your poem helps elicit a distinct sense of place…

The Mission: Draw a caricature of someone - a person you know, a celebrity, someone you see in a magazine - whatever. Submit your caricature and a photo of what the person actually looks like…

The Mission: We’re all busy during the holidays, so we’ll take three weeks instead of one for this assignment. Make a list of things you want to leave behind in the new year. Tangible, intangible, behaviors, thoughts, habits, people, whatever. Decorate that list in some artistic way. Burn the list, and scatter its ashes to the wind. Feel cleansed (whether you believe in this kind of thing or not) and ready to start fresh…

The Mission: Write a short, humorous essay (in the style of David Sedaris or your own favorite humorist) about some part of Christmas or the holiday season…

The Mission: Since the next submission day would fall on a holiday, we’ll extend this assignment to be due the week after. People tend to romanticize the holidays. For this assignment, draw or otherwise create a picture that more accurately depicts how your Thanksgiving goes…

The Mission: Take time to relax this week, even if it’s only for a few minutes. Create art of any type you like, somehow born out of your relaxation - inspired by it, related to it, about it, caused by it, whatever…

The Mission: Write a poem or song inspired by Daylight Saving Time or “turning the clocks back”…

The Mission: Draw (or carve, if you feel ambitious) three unique jack-o-lantern faces…

The Mission: Take a photo that feels spooky - creates a foreboding atmosphere, feels unsettling, or just generally seems creepy…

The Mission: Paint a rock or rocks with a design of your choice. Leave them in a public place where someone will find them…

The Mission: It’s playlist time again! This week, put together a playlist of songs that feel like Autumn to you and share it for the rest of us to listen to…

The Mission: Write a song, poem, or ode to an invention that came from your home town…

The Mission: Take photos of architecture that speaks to you. Create artwork inspired by that architecture. Submit both the art and the photo(s)…