KQED: Spark Art Video Podcast

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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Spark: Amy Franceschini

Amy Franceschini is a pioneer in the burgeoning field of net art, an art form that is created, circulated and experienced through the internet. She is the founder of Futurefarmers, an art and design collaborative dedicated to expressing environmental and community interests through digital media. Spark checks out her "Fingerprint Maze" at Pond gallery.

Aug 18, 2005

Spark: Laurel True

For nearly 15 years, artist Laurel True has been making mosaics, a practice that has taken her around the world. But True's latest mural decorates a building much closer to home -- the rough industrial space that sits right across the street from her Oakland studio. Spark visits True on site while she creates public art.

Aug 18, 2005

Spark: Robert Bechtle

For more than forty years Robert Bechtle has been widely recognized as one of the founders of American Photorealism, a style of painting that rivals the detail and objectivity of the photograph. Spark watches Bechtle at work rendering one of his favorite subjects -- his Potrero Hill neighborhood -- and talking about his motivations and images as he prepares for a retrospective exhibit of his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 12 through June 5, 2005).

Aug 18, 2005

Spark: Chris Cobb

Installation artist Chris Cobb's "There Is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World" involved reclassifying the books at the Mission District's Adobe Books -- by color. The installation remained up from November 12, 2004 until January 20, 2005. Spark checked in on Cobb and his team as they transformed an everyday space into a stunning work of art.

Aug 18, 2005

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