The Mission: Try your hand at Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. Choose your own pot, vase, or other vessel. Find flowers or other natural elements that speak to you. Arrange them with an eye toward minimalism for more traditional Ikebana, or go wild and create your own style of flower arrangement…

The Mission: Create your own cocktail - alcoholic or non, if you prefer. Name it. Photograph it. Give us the recipe. Cheers…

The Mission: Using at least two different artistic mediums, create portraits of yourself, hopefully in contrasting or varied styles…

The Mission: Create a character in your mind that is not you. Follow them around, see what they do, and then write about them. You can write a full song, like Jason Isbell. You can write one just one stanza or a poem. You can write a short story. Anything you like…

The Mission: Most of you should be able to see the eclipse this week, total or not, so we’ll make this an easy one: Let’s see your eclipse photos! (I’ll be out of town on Thursday, so we’ll make Friday the due date this time around.)…

The Mission: Create your own pysanky eggs with wax and dyes. If buying beeswax and kistkas is too much, use crayons. If pysanky feels too complicated, dye eggs in whatever way you like - make your own dyes, use the Paas kits from our childhood, or whatever works for you. Basically, decorate some eggs…

The Mission: In a sort-of nod to St. Patrick’s Day, create an illuminated manuscript. Either use your own writing or take a page of plain text from a book, magazine, or elsewhere, and decorate it with flourishes, borders, and other designs, Medieval-looking or not…

The Mission: In honor of the Oscars airing this week, design a movie poster for a fictitious film you make up about your life or current events or any other subject/topic you choose.…

The Mission: This week (somehow) marks two years of Artpocalypse Thursdays. Thanks to all of you who have helped make that happen! I feel like I should give each of you a gift, and the traditional gift for a second anniversary is cotton. So, this week’s assignment is to make art out of cotton. Happy anniversary!…

The Mission: Make any type of art you like that honors Leap Day in some way. Maybe show what you’ll do with the extra day? Or combine art and math in some way? Or make frog art? Or make art using 29 or 366 of something? Whatever you like!…

The Mission: In honor of Presidents Day, create your own Mount Rushmore. Using whatever medium you like, pick four people meaningful to you and deserving of the honor of being commemorated in granite for eternity, and draw/sculpt/carve/write/paint them into history…

The Mission: Make your own pigment out of natural ingredients. Use it to draw, write, or paint something…

The Mission: Throughout the week, take pictures of (or write down) words, phrases, or sentences you see or hear around you (on signs, in your mail, on a box you find at work, etc.). No cheating - these should be bits you actually encounter, not made up later to make the assignment easier! Using these random scraps of language, create an original poem…

The Mission: Make a jigsaw-style puzzle (without a jigsaw, unless you have one) for someone to put together. Bonus points if you give/send it to someone else and they complete the puzzle…

The Mission: We haven’t done cooking as art, yet, and winter is the perfect time for soup. Some of us are making the same ones on rotation these days, and could use a new recipe. This week, make soup - either an old favorite recipe or something new you invent - and share both a photo of your creation and the recipe so we can all steal it and add it to our winter meals lineup…

The Mission: Create an item of clothing. Bonus points for wearing it somewhere and showing proof…

The Mission: Create your own coloring book page (or pages) using whatever works for you - black sharpie, computer, pencil, etc. - and then color in your design with crayons or colored pencils…

The Mission: Instead of creating a list of resolutions for 2024, think of one central thought or “mantra” or guiding principle you’d like to remind yourself of throughout the coming year and use as a guidepost to keep you on track toward a particular goal, set of goals, or intention. This mantra can be a word, a phrase, or even a short paragraph, but keep it simple enough to be memorable and focused. Create a poster or other piece of art that displays the mantra, decorated or embellished in some way…

The Mission: Give us a glimpse into what you do for the holidays. Choose any medium you like - writing, drawing, photography, collage, whatever - and document some part of your holiday time - travel, time with family, traditions, much-needed relaxation, solitude, etc. Just show us something about how you spend the season…

The Mission: Create your own ornament(s) for your Christmas tree or other holiday decoration. Use whatever materials you have on hand - the more creative, the better…