The Mission: Pretend you’ve been given the honor of delivering the commencement address to a class of graduating high school or college seniors. Write part or all of your speech, giving them your best advice for the world ahead of them…

The Mission: Arrange inanimate objects (furniture, office supplies, food, whatever) and photograph them in a way that conveys a sense of emotion…

The Mission: Sketch, paint, or otherwise depict the likeness of a stranger you see out in the world this week. Up to you whether you get their permission or do it surreptitiously…

The Mission: Pretend you’re back in elementary school, and create a crafty Mother’s Day gift to give to or to honor your mom. We’re talkin’ hand prints in clay, macaroni art, paper plate flowers, etc. The cheesier the better…

The Mission: Rounding out Poetry Month, this week’s assignment is to write a sonnet, using your pet or favorite animal as the subject…

The Mission: Poetry month continues. This week, write at least three poems as epitaphs for people’s tombstones, starting each with “Here lies ___”…

The Mission: Continuing with National Poetry Month, this week’s assignment is to write a cinquain poem about April or springtime. A cinquain is a five-line poem consisting of twenty-two syllables: two in the first line, then four, then six, then eight, and then two syllables again in the last line…

The Mission: For National Poetry Month, we’ll do a take on “Found Poetry.” Create a poem using some of your favorite lines from songs. Arrange those quoted lyrics to create your own poetry. You can add other words as needed to make it make sense, but the fewer extra words, the better. If you want to provide a list of where each line came from, that’s great!…

The Mission: Make your own musical instrument, using whatever materials you like. Submit a photo of your instrument, along with (if possible) an audio or video clip of you playing it…

The Mission: Make a “stained glass window” out of paper - construction paper, tissue paper, or whatever paper you have on hand…

The Mission: In honor of the third anniversary of Artpocalypse Thursdays, create a triptych using any medium you like…

The Mission: To celebrate the Academy Awards this week, pick one of this year’s Best Picture nominees and take photos inspired by that film. Arrange them into a collage (digital or print) that speaks to you...

The Mission: Using pencil or pen, sketch a scene from your current favorite TV show - preferably a scene iconic enough to easily identify which show you are sketching...

The Mission: Write a poem or poems that start with the line “Roses are red, violets are blue” - the more creative you go from there, the better...

The Mission: Carve a bar of soap into a sculpture of your choosing...

The Mission: Make your own art in the style of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings by finding things in the world around you that mimic his abstract expressionist style of rectangular regions of color - photograph them, paint with them, or use whatever method you like to create your real life Rothko...

The Mission: Using pieces of mail you would normally discard, make a collage or similar piece of art...

The Mission: Take photos of contrasting ideas or subjects and arrange them together to make a statement...

The Mission: We haven’t done music in a while, so for this week’s assignment, curate a winter playlist that captures the essence of your winter mood or just features favorites you like to listen to this time of year. Submit a link to your list via Spotify or other app, or just send the titles and artists for me to try to put together and share with the group...

The Mission: Create snow art - art made from snow, art about snow, art about how much you hate snow - whatever. Use any medium you like, from prose to photos to paint to whatever you can imagine, but bonus points if you use actual snow...