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Spark is about San Francisco Bay Area artists and arts organizations -- it is a weekly television show on KQED 9, an educational outreach program and a Web site at www.kqed.org/spark. The Spark Podcast includes segments from the show and is released weekly.
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Learn more about the Occupy Bay Area art exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Produced by Spark for This Week in Northern California. Original air date: July 2012.Autor: KQED
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Spark shares how Eleanor Coppola's work helps grieving parents to remember their children. Original air date: July 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark discovers the exquisitely carved sculptures by Chinese American artist Lu Huan. Original air date: June 2005.Autor: KQED
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Spark finds the song inside pine cones, with composer/performer Cheryl E. Leonard. Original air date: May 2005.Autor: KQED
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Spark checks out the rocking, rolling, reeling sculptures of sound artist Matt Heckert. Original air date: March 2005.Autor: KQED
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Spark visits the recording studio of bouzouki player George Mylordos and his band Kymata. Original air date: June 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark talks to John O'Keefe, a San Francisco playwright who's been on the scene for decades. Original air date: June 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark meets the Gospel Travelers, an unlikely assortment of blues and gospel performers. Original air date: May 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark hits the San Francisco club scene at one of Porchlight's monthly storytelling revues. Original air date: April 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark joins La Familia Peña-Govea to see how this family bands together. Original air date: April 2007.Autor: KQED
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Spark catches up with globe-trotting choreographer Flemming Flindt at Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley. Original air date: March 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark takes a walk on the wild side with photographer Olivier Laude, as he stages his outrageous portraits. Original air date: February 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark makes acquaintance with Pauline Oliveros, the internationally renowned pioneer in electronic and improvisational music. Original air date: February 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark meets the artists known as castaneda/reiman, who live, work, and make art together. Original air date: July 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark explores ultimate power dressing with Andrea Higgins's series of works based on the wardrobe of American First Ladies. Original air date: June 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark listens to vocalist Amy X Neuburg and her Cello Chixtet interpreting the secret language of subways. Original air date: March 2007.Autor: KQED
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Spark visits with Vietnamese born Thai Bui as he creates works that reflect the pressures of working as an artist in a foreign culture. Original air date: June 2005.Autor: KQED
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Spark explores the method and meaning behind Anna Von Mertens's quilts that are covered with as many as 100,000 handsewn stitches. Original air date: May 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark meets Ken Goldberg who conducts whimsical experiments in human behavior to explore the artistic possibilities of the Web. Original air date: March 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark checks out the growing phenomenon of Muslim spoken word and hip hop with Calligraphy of Thought. Original air date: February 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark talks to Brenda Way, who in the three decades since she founded ODC has directed her dancers and staff to accomplish more than they ever dreamed possible. Original air date: September 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark goes inside the studio with Victor Cartagena, who draws on memories of the Salvadoran Civil War to create a haunting body of work. Original air date: July 2008.Autor: KQED
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Spark discovers The Ark, a project where musicians from around the world take six days in the basement of a divinity school to compose a new piece of Jewish music. Original air date: June 2008.Autor: KQED
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Spark takes to the streets of San Jose to check out Phantom Galleries, part of a nationwide trend to counter the effects of urban blight by filling vacant storefronts with the work of local artists. Original air date: April 2004.Autor: KQED
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Spark heads to Chile to see how Pablo Neruda influenced the work of playwright Carlos Baron. Original air date: May 2007.Autor: KQED
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Spark finds out how ponies and parties play an important part in the weavings by Adela Akers. Original air date: May 2007.Autor: KQED
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Spark learns more about Laura Splan's fascination with biological sciences and has informed her artwork. Original air date: March 2005.Autor: KQED
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Spark remembers Nathan Oliveira and his lifelong fascination with the painted surface. Original air date: February 2005.Autor: KQED
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Spark visits the Asian Art Museum for their opening gala in 2003. Original air date: March 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark spends time with Taraneh Hemami as she helps to preserve the memories of Iranian-Americans. Original air date: July 2006.Autor: KQED
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Spark follows the development of Jim Campbell's series of works, which focuses on people with physical disabilities. Original air date: May 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark gets an inside look at the private collection of film- and video-based art in the home of the Kramlichs. Original air date: April 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark visits San Jose's gallery, Kaleid, and learns about the art scene there. Original air date: June 2007.Autor: KQED
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Spark gets an an insider's perspective on the art business with artist Charles Linder, who formerly owned Lincart gallery. Original air date: September 2003.Autor: KQED
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Spark experiences the dance traditions of Central Asia come alive when Ballet Afsaneh takes the stage. Original air date: July 2007.Autor: KQED
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Visit Kenyan-born Indian American Shailja Patel as she works on her one-woman show, "Migritude." Original air date: March 2007.Autor: KQED
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Find out how sound duo Matmos create their unique sound environments -- you may be surprised. Original air date: May 2006.Autor: KQED
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See how natural found objects are juxtaposed with pieces of technology in Joe Mangrum's design sculptures. Original air date: July 2006.Autor: KQED
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Check out the Contemporary Jewish Museum and their invitational exhibition showcasing artists' interpretations of the seder plate. Original air date: April 2009.Autor: KQED
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Meet artists in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Original air date: March 2006.Autor: KQED
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This Web extra discusses how the art is arranged at the de Young Museum. Original release: March 2006.Autor: KQED
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Spark visits the de Young Museum when it re-opened its doors in 2005. And we meet artist Sharon Virtue. Original air date: March 2006.Autor: KQED
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View Catherine Wagner's stark, pristine images presenting new perspectives on science, nature and material culture. Original air date: January 2005.Autor: KQED
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Go on a photo shoot with video artist Ben Wood to retrieve a centuries-old mural in the Mission Dolores. Original air date: January 2005.Autor: KQED
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Enter the world of electronic sculpture artist Andrew Kleindolph who constructs machines that defy logic or function. Original air date: April 2006.Autor: KQED
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Get a front row seat at Yoshi's Jazz House to see jazz bassist Walter Savage. Original air date: August 2006.Autor: KQED
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See how sculptor Mitra Fabian explores the abnormal using mundane materials. Original air date: July 2007.Autor: KQED
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Catch master shadow puppeteer Larry Reed behind-the-scenes of a traditional Balinese tale in which he plays 40 different characters. Original air date: January 2004.Autor: KQED
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Head to the beach with Caleb Duarte as he gathers materials for a solo show in San Francisco's Jack Fischer Gallery. Original air date: April 2007.Autor: KQED
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Explore language through technology with conceptual video artist Jesus Aguilar. Original air date: May 2007.Autor: KQED
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