Paul Thek's Teaching notes: assignments

Redesign a rainbow. Make a French-curve rainbow. Design a labyrinth dedicated to Freud, using his photo and his writings. Design a Torah. Design a monstrance. Illustrate the Godhead. Add a station of the cross. Design an abstract monument to Uncle Tom. Make a paperdoll of yourself. Make a spaceship out of a cereal box. Make a paper chain out of a book. Redesign the human genitals so that they may be more equitable. Design a feminist crucifixion scene. Design something to sell on the street corner. Design something to sell to the government. Design something to put on an altar. Design something to put over a child’s bed. Design something to put over your bed when you make love. Make a monkey out of clay. Design a flying saucer as if it were The Ark. Make a large folded-paper airplane, paint on it a slogan which you think will revolutionize your life. Make an icon out of popcorn. Pain a balloon gold, paint a balloon silver. Make a necklace out of coal. Paint a series of playing balls like planets, be accurate. Design a black mass out of any materials you can find. Design a work of art that fits in a matchbox, a shoebox. Design a new clock face. Make a skyscraper out of inappropriate materials. Make a prisoner’s pillbox hat. Make scatological object, or use scatological words. Illustrate your strangeness, act out your most frightening perversity. Design a box within a box to illustrate selfishness. Design a throne. Make a piece of curative art. Make a piece of psychological art. Make a design of your favorite literary person. Event. History. Project for Ellis Island. Make a structure out of photos of primitive people. Make a structure illustrating anything from the book of proverbs. Can you construct a functioning lamp that illustrates the concept of freedom? Can you construct a functioning ashtray that illustrates the passage of time?