Spark! Bay Area TV and Web Program

[Randy]

Dear di Rosa Fans:

Warm-up the T.V. set this week and enjoy the di Rosa Preserve from home! Read on…

Spark!

This week’s episode features the di Rosa Preserve and our very own Rene di Rosa!


KQED and the Bay Area Video Coalition have joined forces to produce a new TV series and multimedia arts initiative that spotlights Bay Area visual and performing artists and arts organizations. The art forms explored include drama, dance, music, and the visual and digital arts, as well as literary works in performance. Spark! takes the audience inside the creative process to witness the challenges, opportunities and rewards of making art.



The series is comprised of three major elements: a weekly TV series that profiles Bay Area artists and performers, along with a calendar of upcoming events and programs; an interactive online project which includes a Web-based showcase of video, audio and biographical materials, a guide to online arts calendars, and forums for discussion and feedback; and an education outreach program designed in conjunction with the new state-mandated arts education standards for K-12 classrooms.



Collectors and Their Collections

Wed, April 23, 2003 -- 7:30pm and

Fri, April 25, 2003 -- 11:00pm

KQED (Channel 9)

“Contemporary art has left the gallery and now inhabits every nook and cranny of our world - from digital ephemera appearing on video screens to temporary and fleeting events that occur in vast public spaces. This episode explores what it takes to be a collector of cutting edge contemporary artworks, including works that may not exist as tangible objects.



Explore for new art with Rene di Rosa as he collects the work of local artists for his extraordinary Napa Valley art preserve; an insider's glimpse of the world's largest private collection of video art, at the home of Pamela and Richard Kremlich; the unique challenges of collecting conceptual and performance works, with artist and collector Ted Purvis.”



To learn more about the di Rosa Preserve, visit www.dirosapreserve.org or call 707-226-5991. Information about Spark! may be found at www.kqed.org/spark/homepage.jsp.

[LizAnne Jensen]

Hi Randy:

I am new contributor to this forum. I, too, am a diRosa fan and thank you for your posting. I would have missed the TV show otherwise.

I think those of us who live in the greater San Francisco Bay Area (we are based in Santa Cruz) are extremely lucky not only to have this incredible collection available to us but so many talented artists working in this region. It certainly makes this a dynamic and exciting place to practice art.

LizAnne

[Randy]

LizAnne --

Please let us know how the program is (the one on the video collectors looks cool, too.) We can't watch, so you'll have to fill us in.

The newish director at diRosa is an old friend of mine from Washington, DC -- Jack Rasmussen. If you go by, tell him you met me on the ISC site!

Best,
Randy