Kristin Hines' contemporary trends project

1. Promptism
How we approach art in the modern world
By Kristin Hines

2. Characteristics
• Challenge or prompt
• Forces art creation
• Time-based
• Theme-based
• Art-based
• Viewer-requested
• Sharing the results
• Flexible/Vague
• Inspires artist and creates community
Noah Scalin’s Skull-A-Day Skulls

3. Deep Roots (Pioneers)
• Exquisite Corpse
• Surrealists in early-mid 1900s
• “The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine”
• Mail Art
• Mailed in an envelope
• Interaction, exchange, and collaboration around the world
• The Graceful Envelope – 1995 onward
• Less prominent in digital age

5. CJ Kennedy – Graceful Envelope entry (2012)

6. Recent Roots (Pioneers)
• PostSecret
• Mail Art
• Started in 2005
• Handmade postcards with secrets
• Postsecret.com as well as books and galleries
• Noah Scalin
• Skull-A-Day
• Really brought movement to the mainstream

7. Why Did It Grow?
• Art is less formal
• Internet and social media  easy to share and access art
• Digital art  faster, more readily-available tools
• Social media  spread challenges and results
• Higher demand and competition
• Artists need inspiration to fulfill high expectations
• Rise of depression rates  lack of motivation

8. Noah Scalin
• Skull-A-Day
• 2007
• Submissions from fans
• 365: A Daily Creativity Journal
• Original in 2010, updated in 2016
• Unstuck: 52 Ways to Get (and Keep) Your
Creativity Flowing at Home, at Work, & in Your Studio
• 2011
• Make Something 365 Blog

9. Jake Parker
• Inktober
• 2009
• Ink drawing each day of October
• Improve comfort with ink
• Daily optional prompts
• Share using #inktober2017 and #inktober
• Thousands of artists

11. Jake Parker 2013 Koyamori 2013

12. Art Assignment
• PBS online show on YouTube
• Started in 2014
• Educates about modern artists
• Artist gives “assignment”
• Ex. Jamal Cyrus “Brain Sounds”
• Ex. Molly Springfield “Copy a Copy a Copy”
• Viewers share their work with #theartassignment

13. The Sketchbook Project
• Team of four in Brooklyn since 2009
• Writing and drawing challenges
• Pen Pal Painting Exchange
• Reminiscent of Mail Art
• Theme “Self Portrait”
• The Sketchbook Project sends you someone else’s
• Display work at Brooklyn Art Library and online
• Atlas: https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/13472

14. Other Notable Examples
• 100 Themes Challenge
• http://challenge.lambdadelta.pl/
• 365 Days in the Life of a Journal
• Focus on finding your own work
• NaNoWriMo
• NaNoDrawMo; NaNoMangO
• Huevember
• Color Palette Challenges

15. Color Palette
Challenges

16. Sources
• “About.” Skull-A-Day. http://skulladay.blogspot.com/p/about.html.
• “About.” The Art Assignment. http://www.theartassignment.com/about.
• “About.” The Sketchbook Project. Art House Projects, https://www.sketchbookproject.com/about.
• “Cadavre Exquis.” MoMA. https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/max-ernst-levade-the-fugitive.
• “Challenges.” Another Kind of Artist’s Block. Wordpress, https://anotherkindofartistsblock.wordpress.com/challenges/.
• “Challenges.” The Sketchbook Project. Art House Projects, https://www.sketchbookproject.com/challenges.
• Kordic, Angie. “How Did Mail Art Develop Into a Global Art Movement?” WideWalls. Web.
• McClendon, Robyn. “365 Days In The Life Of A Journal – Introduction.” Your Creativity Coach. Wordpress, 19 February 2015. Web.
• “PE: Painting With A Limited Colour Palette.” DeviantArt. 14 July, 2015, http://riemea.deviantart.com/journal/PE-Painting-With-A-Limited-
Colour-Palette-512919278.
• “PostSecret.” Wikipedia. 26 February 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostSecret.
• Scalin, Noah. Make Something 365 & Get Unstuck. Blogspot, http://makesomething365.blogspot.com/.
• Stein, Jeannine. “Studio Saturdays: Art Challenges.” Artists Network. F+W, 26 November 2016. Web.
• “The Inktober Initiative.” Jake Parker. 2016, http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober.
• Theme chooser - #100ThemesChallenge. Web. http://challenge.lambdadelta.pl/.

17. Image Sources
• http://craphound.com/images/skulladay.jpg
• https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9a/89/5d/9a895dd79c173062bd57c710693c2351.jpg
• https://www.randomhouse.com/kids/ecorpse/images/NicMccHendrix.jpg
• http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_N5uA9D3Nxk/UBZ970De8ZI/AAAAAAAAEu4/4el3EaRKg80/s1600/graceful2012.jpg
• https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514ZTATJRFL.jpg
• http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1330151/images/o-POST-SECRET-MURDER-CONFESSION-facebook.jpg
• http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1405868078l/8102846.jpg
• http://media.virbcdn.com/cdn_images/resize_1024x1365/c4/78315df6f0f901f4-weblogo.png
• http://orig08.deviantart.net/2001/f/2013/316/8/9/inktober_28_by_koyamori-d6t3fqe.jpg
• http://orig14.deviantart.net/cdeb/f/2016/282/f/7/color_palette_challenge_by_ciaratheumbreon-dakgowr.png
• http://68.media.tumblr.com/8802cbabd60fe511d253131dc6f0c4c4/tumblr_ng61guNPiW1tj0515o1_500.png
• https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/13472
• http://media.virbcdn.com/cdn_images/resize_1024x1365/08/e83547699c867820-2016promptlistSM.jpg
• https://inspiringdesignsyeg.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/huevember-e1446879435169.png?w=640