“If there’s a thing the art car community is doing that I find wrong, it’s that they’re trying to sell their product. … You make that because it’s fun.”— David Best Cut it, tweak it, weld it, and ...

Take a walk to the post office with John Held Jr. as he picks up his latest delivery, adding to his collection of more than 30,000 pieces of mail art. Take a tour with Steven Oliver, a successful ...

“We’re here to bring scientists and artists together to talk about the opportunities and obstacles that face the evolution of this new genre.”— Frank Pietronigro Frank Pietronigro is using his art to ...

Jacques Pépin is world-renowned as a chef and the host of his acclaimed and popular cooking programs on public television, and as a respected instructor, a prolific author and gifted artist. Pépin has ...

“When I feel like I’m being understood too easily by people, then I pump it up a little bit … make it a little bit tougher.” Editor’s note: David Ireland passed away on May 17, 2009. Internationally ...

“There have been a lot of moments where I’m just almost crying with joy and pride when I see my daughters playing and really having an effect on an audience.”— Miguel Govea Michael Govea is a Latin ...

With more than 200 pieces, Richard and Pamela Kramlich have one of the world’s largest private collections of video and new media arts. In the “Collectors and Their Collections” episode, Spark gets a ...

“I’m a junk artist and I think that’s really my job is to let my feelings go with the junk.”— Patrick Amiot Drive into Sebastopol, a town of about 7,800 people located 50 miles north of San Francisco, ...

“As [an] artist, the biggest challenge to me is not to repeat myself.”— Hung Liu Oakland painter Hung Liu combines Western and Chinese traditions to create larger-than-life images of everyday people ...

“I go into a place of frustration … and the only way I can do something, is just doing my art.”— Victor Cartagena The work of visual artist Victor Cartagena defies stylistic or cultural categories.

“The biggest challenge … working with technology and art is to transcend the medium … and to have some sort of humanist side to the work.” One of the most innovative artists in the country, Jim ...

“Hear with your ears, listen with your heart” can be dismissed as fortune cookie musing, but anybody who knows or has heard of Pauline Oliveros will say it’s the pioneering musician and composer’s ...