Experience artists whose work emanates from the street.

Once a professional skateboarder, Tommy Guerrero channels the skate culture through his music and visual artwork.

Next see graffiti artist and self-described bad boy David Choe, who has moved from the streets of Los Angeles and San Jose to the brink of stardom. He has self-published graphic novels, produced illustrations for magazines and mounted dozens of gallery shows of his paintings.

Also check out reflections of “Life on Market Street: An Audio Archive,” with the four-wheeled interactive artwork by the artist team of Wowhaus (thewowhaus.com).

Spark looks at extraordinary craftspeople at work.

The Bay Area is considered one of the centers of glassmaking in the United States, and Pamina Traylor is part of that growing community. Pamina combines dozens of delicate hand-blown glass shapes to create sculptural objects of lyrical beauty.

Then follow Gary Stevens, who got his start as a carpenter, but once he’d stumbled across the ancient stumps in his own backyard, he found the inspiration to create forms unlike anything he’d ever made in woodshop.

Finally, Chris Natrop is a real-life Edward Scissorhands, transforming vast rolls of paper into freeform lace panels.

In times of trouble, Spark shows how art can be the force that heals.

First meet Rhodessa Jones, who has been the heart and soul of the Medea Project since 1989.

She uses improvisational theater to transform the lives of incarcerated women and ex-offenders. Next, see how the Sixth Street Photography Workshop gives the dispossessed of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district the tools and resources they need to create moving photographic chronicles.

Then see how Eleanor Coppola has brought part of her journey in Ireland to the Oakland Art Gallery, allowing grieving parents to remember their children in and through the installation artwork Circle of Memory.

Spark shows the magic behind the Bay Area’s most ambitious stage productions — starting with the creation of a striking new set design for the San Francisco Opera‘s staging of “Doktor Faust.” Next is costumer extraordinaire Sandra Woodall, who has designed for a variety of genres, including ballet, modern dance, performance art and theater. We see her in action at A.C.T. and the San Francisco Ballet. Then, meet Joy Marcelle, the wig master for the Best of Broadway’s production of “Hairspray.”

When successful local performers try to take their careers to another level, Spark asks, “Do they have what it takes?”

Chanticleer’s Matt Alber harkens back to his Midwestern roots as he tries to make it into the big time as a country and western star.

Next, they’ve been making music together for decades, but now the members of the Greek band Kymata want to move beyond wedding gigs to create their own unique fusion of musical styles. A fixture in the Greek community, the band takes a step back from performing to begin recording.

Then have the last dance with ambitious young ballroom dancers as they go head to head at the Bay Area’s first Ballroom Blitz Junior Dance Sport Championship.

Gifted teenage artists jump at the chance to strut their stuff on this episode of Spark. Catch the Bay Area’s best young jazz musicians vying for a spot on the region’s premier high school jazz ensemble SFJazz Allstars. Then meet high school artists who have come from across the country to hone their skills at Napa Valley’s exclusive Oxbow School and see what it takes to get there. As a final note, hear Youth in Arts San Rafael‘s teen a cappella music group, ‘Til Dawn.

Spark visits with some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished and daring performers.

First, skate along the cutting edge with Berkeley Symphony Orchestra‘s conductor Kent Nagano, who works with young composer Naomi Sekiya on her concerto for two guitars.

Then, travel from first draft to finished production with veteran playwright John O’Keefe as he mines the politics of the personal.

And finally, choreographer Robert Moses (at robertmoseskin.org)and the young poets of Youth Speaks debut a collaboration using words, music, and movement.

In this episode of Spark, contemporary artists breathe new life into classic performance works.

In our first story, choreographer Mark Morris resurrects the 19th-century Parisian masterpiece “Sylvia” at the San Francisco Ballet — infusing this mythological tale of nymphs and satyrs with his own unique blend of humor and sensuality. Follow Morris from his first rehearsals with the dancers right up to opening night.

Then go backstage at the American Conservatory Theater as director Carey Perloff takes on one of the 20th century’s most important and challenging plays: Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.”

And finally, in what might qualify as the season’s most unlikely artistic collaboration, the San Francisco Opera teams up with Oakland’s industrial arts center, The Crucible, to stage a pyrotechnic version of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.”

Spark goes in search of artists who have put aside their brushes, instead opting for the stitch-by-stitch, tat-by-tat universe of needlework.

First, the art of the tattoo, which was once on the fringes of Western culture and is now a mainstream phenomenon — meet one of the world’s best-known tattoo artists, Don Ed Hardy.

In our second story, explore the method, meaning and madness behind Anna Von Mertens‘s quilts, which are covered with as many as 100,000 hand-sewn stitches.

And finally, take on issues of gender and identity with Anna Maltz‘s works of hand-knit whimsy, anatomically correct nude body suits.

Spark revels in the skill and tenacity of individuals who are keeping their ancestral traditions alive through the arts. First meet Vishal Ramani, who has spent the last 25 years passing along the finer points of classical Indian dance at Shiri Krupa Dance Company — 9,000 miles from her homeland. Then, travel to Yosemite, once home to some of Native America’s most skilled basket weavers, where Julia Parker is helping to revive the art form and tell the story of the valley through basket weaving. And finally, prep for Carnaval Bahia-style, with choreographer and teacher Conceição Damasceno and watch as she shares Brazilian culture.

Spark delights in the sound of people making music together, with ensembles that come in all shapes and sizes. In our first story, you may already know that the Grammy-winning San Francisco Symphony Chorus is one of the finest vocal ensembles in the world … but what you may not know is that most of its members are volunteers, who travel to San Francisco at least once a week from as far away as Stockton. In our second story, travel to the First Missionary Church in San Jose for a visit with the newly formed The Gospel Travelers, an unlikely assortment of blues and gospel performers. Then see how the Sonos Handbell Ensemble in Walnut Creek make music one note at a time.

In this episode of Spark, you’ll meet individuals who are using their skills as producers, presenters, fund-raisers and all-around great schmoozers to energize and invigorate the Bay Area arts scene. Cal Performances is one of the country’s premier? presenting organizations. The man at the helm here is impresario Robert Cole. Follow him as he works the room — here and in New York — to bring the best of world dance and music to the Bay Area. Then meet Angela McConnell, one of the most successful fund-raisers in the Bay Area Arts community, and witness her latest achievement, helping to raise almost $12 million in the wake of the dotcom bust to build a new Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) in Mountain View. Finally, we’ll catch a glimpse of a day in the frenetic life of Jordan Simmons, artistic director of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, as he juggles roles in the classroom, on stage, at the center and in the community.

Speaking from first-hand experience is a narrative style that’s the hallmark of many 21st-century art forms. In this episode of Spark, see how Bay Area artists are making the form uniquely theirs.

Begin with the kind of stories that won’t put you to sleep as you’ll discover with Porch Light, a monthly revue in which storytellers walk an emotional tightrope on stage, spilling their guts in front of a live audience.

In our second story, visit students at Tamalpais High School who are learning the fine art of documentary theater, a form that now dominates American drama. We follow their production from first interview to finished performance as they document the history of protest in the Mill Valley community.

Finally, we’ll go backstage with comedian and actress Marga Gomez as she workshops a new one-woman show based on her experiences growing up in an ambitious show-biz family.

In this episode of Spark, you’ll meet families that make art together. Circus artist Gypsy Snider grew up in San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus, then toured with Cirque du Soleil. Now she’s taking the biggest risk of her career: launching a circus of her own, Les Sept Doigts de la Main, and bringing her 2-year-old daughter along with her. In our second story, we meet Sahara Sunday Spain, a published poet and accomplished dancer, singer/songwriter and visual artist … who is only 12 years old. Together, she and her mother, photographer and activist Elizabeth Sunday, make a formidable two-career family. And finally, patriarch Miguel Govea has been a fixture in the Bay Area Latin music scene for decades. Now the rest of his family, including his two daughters, are joining him onstage and in the recording studio with La Familia Peña-Govea.