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The Art Assignment
Embarrassing Object - Geof Oppenheimer
Season 2
Episode 20
This week's assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same.
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