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

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Matt Miezio: Featured Artist

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Ali DeMoro - Featured Artist
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Carol Summers

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Interview with Walker Hum
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Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Judo No - Featured Artist

Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Music Profiles

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Judo No - Featured Artist

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Mike Love: Featured Musician

Gina René: Featured Musician

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

The Rio Theatre

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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How To

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Victorian Candy!

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

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

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

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

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Draw a Person

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

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

History & Post Cards

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Pehea 'oe?
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Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Santa Cruz in the 80s
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A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Stood Here - 1940
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The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

The Rio Theatre

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Illustration & Drawing

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

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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All Hands on Deck 2017

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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7 Inspirational Art Books

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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How to Draw a Dog

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

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

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Jewelry

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Hand Carving a River Stone

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

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

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Performer Spotlight

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Comedian Ian Harris Puts Anti-Scientific Thinking on Blast in His New Show, <i>ExtraOrdinary</i>

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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Brynne Flidais

The Rio Theatre

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

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

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Hula Hoop

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Videos

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

7 Inspirational Art Books

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

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

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

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

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video : Feathers

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Hyperlapse Time

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How Crayons are Made

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