This is Santa Cruz Art!

How to Draw a Monkey

Interview with Walker Hum
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Interview with Alaya Vautier

LOC ART : The Art Market App

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Painting a 3D Flower in Resin

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Time Lapse Model Painting

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Capitola Plein Air 2018 - 4th Annual Festival

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Wood 3D Map

Victorian Candy!

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

How to Make Slime

How to Decorate Eggs

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

How to Draw a Nose

Feel Good on Friday with Frozen Pink Paint

Keep Growing - 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now

Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

How to Cut With a Screw - Forge Edition

Stood Here - 1940
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I.B. Bayo : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Idea Fab Labs Santa Cruz

Hand Carving a River Stone

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Include Everyone - 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now

Interview with The Booth Bus : Northern California’s Vintage Volkswagen Photo Booth

Be Yourself - 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Accept Yourself - 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Iconic Adventures with Volkswagen Bus Trippers

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

How to Draw a Dog

Idea Fab Lab Artists Make Waves
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Skate by the Sea on the Capitola Ice Rink
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Video: How to Create Latte Art

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Julie Rawls

Artist Profiles

Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

The Art of John Johnson: Featured Exhibit
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Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Rachel Barnes - Mandala Mural in Progress: Featured Artwork

Thomas Spearance: Featured Musician

Judo No - Featured Artist

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Dylan Kelly - Pack Your Trash: Featured Artwork
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Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Becky Olvera Schultz: Featured Artist

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Music Profiles

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Love Eternal: Featured Band

The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Gen Rocket : Featured Band

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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The Rio Theatre

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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How To

Video: How To Draw a Rose

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Do's and Don't: How to Draw a Face

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : How to Draw a Floating, Levitating Ball - Anamorphic Trick Art

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video : How to Draw a Hole... In Your Hand

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Victorian Candy!

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

History & Post Cards

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Pehea 'oe?
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Stood Here - 1940
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Santa Cruz Casino at Night

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Palace Art and Office Supply
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

The Rio Theatre

Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Illustration & Drawing

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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All Hands on Deck 2017

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Video: How to Create Latte Art

7 Inspirational Art Books

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Do's and Don't: How to Draw a Face

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Jewelry

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Put a Ring (or Bracelete, or Necklace...) on it

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Hand Carving a River Stone

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Performer Spotlight

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Brynne Flidais

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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The Rio Theatre

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

How to Hula Hoop

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Videos

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Hula Hoop

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Hand Carving a River Stone

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video : How to Draw a Hole... In Your Hand

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video : Feathers

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Art

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Do's and Don't: How to Draw a Face

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

How to Draw a Dog

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