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Challenges
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Visual Art
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Hand
Draw or paint your hand as realistically as possible, paying special attention to your knuckles and joints, palm lines and veins, fingernails and cuticles: everything.
Writing
Deadline
Park
Set a short story in a dog park on a sunny spring day. Use a dog or a more unexpected animal as a central plot point, or for the meeting of two characters.
Writing
Deadline
Well
You come upon a wishing well. What kind of magic happens at the bottom of a wishing well?
Great Artists
Visual Art
David Hockney
This British-born artist's work was profoundly influenced by the aesthetic and intense light of his adopted Los Angeles home.
Visual Art
Pablo Picasso
One of the most important, original, and celebrated artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso's influence on art continues today.
Visual Art
Amy Sherald
Of all the opinions about the official portrait of Michelle Obama, the one that mattered most to artist Amy Sherald was the former first lady's. And she said she loved it.
Great Poets
Writing
Mary Oliver
Clear, evocative, simply beautiful – words that describe this poet's work.
Writing
Danez Smith
Their poetry is intersectional, inclusive, and powerful.
Writing
Langston Hughes
Get to know this poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Opinion & Commentary
Writing
Wonder
What is something that makes you stop and wonder.
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Writing
Ukraine
Imagine a young person, your age, living in Ukraine today or in a new land where they were forced to flee the Russian invasion of their country. Write about them or to them. What is their life like as war drags on?
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Writing
Eclipse
Are you in the path of the total solar eclipse? Write about the experience!
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