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

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

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

Artist Profiles

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Julie Rawls

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Matt Miezio: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Judo No - Featured Artist

Interview with Walker Hum
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Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Lugew Antes : Featured Artist
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Danielle Peters

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Open Studios Featured Artist: Sonia Calderon

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

The Rio Theatre

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

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

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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How To

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

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

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

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

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How Crayons are Made

Time Lapse Model Painting

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Art

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

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

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How To Draw a Person

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

How to Draw a Nose

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

History & Post Cards

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

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

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

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Palace Art and Office Supply
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The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Stood Here - 1940
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Santa Cruz Casino at Night

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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The Rio Theatre

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Pehea 'oe?
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Illustration & Drawing

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

7 Inspirational Art Books

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Jewelry

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Hand Carving a River Stone

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

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

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Performer Spotlight

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

The Rio Theatre

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Brynne Flidais

How to Hula Hoop

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Videos

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : Feathers

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: Brain Crack

How to Hula Hoop

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

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

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

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