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

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

The Art of John Johnson: Featured Exhibit
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Lugew Antes : Featured Artist
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Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Paul Jimerson : Featured Artist
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Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Music Profiles

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Gina René: Featured Musician

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The Rio Theatre

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

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

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Mike Love: Featured Musician

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

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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How To

How to Hula Hoop

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

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

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

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

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

How to Draw a Dog

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

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

How to Draw a Stick Figure

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Art

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Create Latte Art

History & Post Cards

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

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

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Stood Here - 1940
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All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Pehea 'oe?
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Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

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

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Palace Art and Office Supply
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Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

The Rio Theatre

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Illustration & Drawing

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: How to Draw a Bat

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

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Jewelry

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Hand Carving a River Stone

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Performer Spotlight

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Brynne Flidais

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

The Rio Theatre

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Comedian Ian Harris Puts Anti-Scientific Thinking on Blast in His New Show, <i>ExtraOrdinary</i>

Comedian Ian Harris Puts Anti-Scientific Thinking on Blast in His New Show, ExtraOrdinary

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

How to Hula Hoop

Videos

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

How to Hula Hoop

Video: Brain Crack

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

Video : Feathers

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Hand Carving a River Stone

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Art

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

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