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.

Spark shares how Eleanor Coppola's work helps grieving parents to remember their children. Original air date: July 2004.

Spark discovers the exquisitely carved sculptures by Chinese American artist Lu Huan. Original air date: June 2005.

Spark finds the song inside pine cones, with composer/performer Cheryl E. Leonard. Original air date: May 2005.

Spark checks out the rocking, rolling, reeling sculptures of sound artist Matt Heckert. Original air date: March 2005.

Spark visits the recording studio of bouzouki player George Mylordos and his band Kymata. Original air date: June 2004.

Spark talks to John O'Keefe, a San Francisco playwright who's been on the scene for decades. Original air date: June 2004.

Spark meets the Gospel Travelers, an unlikely assortment of blues and gospel performers. Original air date: May 2004.

Spark hits the San Francisco club scene at one of Porchlight's monthly storytelling revues. Original air date: April 2004.

Spark joins La Familia Peña-Govea to see how this family bands together. Original air date: April 2007.

Spark catches up with globe-trotting choreographer Flemming Flindt at Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley. Original air date: March 2004.

Spark takes a walk on the wild side with photographer Olivier Laude, as he stages his outrageous portraits. Original air date: February 2004.

Spark makes acquaintance with Pauline Oliveros, the internationally renowned pioneer in electronic and improvisational music. Original air date: February 2004.

Spark meets the artists known as castaneda/reiman, who live, work, and make art together. Original air date: July 2003.

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.

Spark listens to vocalist Amy X Neuburg and her Cello Chixtet interpreting the secret language of subways. Original air date: March 2007.

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.

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.

Spark meets Ken Goldberg who conducts whimsical experiments in human behavior to explore the artistic possibilities of the Web. Original air date: March 2004.

Spark checks out the growing phenomenon of Muslim spoken word and hip hop with Calligraphy of Thought. Original air date: February 2004.

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.

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.

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.

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.