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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

Judo No - Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Tracy Oliver : Featured Artist

Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Rachel Barnes - Mandala Mural in Progress: Featured Artwork

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Paul Jimerson : Featured Artist
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Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Music Profiles

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Mike Love: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Judo No - Featured Artist

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Gina René: Featured Musician

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

How To

How to Hula Hoop

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

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

Video: How To Draw a Person

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

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

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Time Lapse Model Painting

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

How to Draw a Stick Figure

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

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Art

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

History & Post Cards

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

The Rio Theatre

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Pehea 'oe?
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A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

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

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

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

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Stood Here - 1940
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Santa Cruz Casino at Night

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

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

Illustration & Drawing

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Video: How to Create Latte Art

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

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

7 Inspirational Art Books

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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How to Draw a Dog

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Jewelry

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

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

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Hand Carving a River Stone

Performer Spotlight

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

How to Hula Hoop

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

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

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

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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Videos

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

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Art

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video : Feathers

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

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

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

How to Hula Hoop

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

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