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

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Dylan Kelly - Pack Your Trash: Featured Artwork
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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The Art of John Johnson: Featured Exhibit
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Sonia Calderon

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Gina René: Featured Musician

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

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

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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The Rio Theatre

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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How To

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Victorian Candy!

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Create Latte Art

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

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

How to Draw a Nose

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

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How To Draw a Rose

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

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

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

How to Draw a Dog

History & Post Cards

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

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

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

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

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Stood Here - 1940
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Palace Art and Office Supply
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

The Rio Theatre

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Pehea 'oe?
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Illustration & Drawing

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

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

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

All Hands on Deck 2017

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Create Latte Art

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

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

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Jewelry

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Hand Carving a River Stone

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

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

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Performer Spotlight

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

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

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
WilliamTell

The Rio Theatre

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

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

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Videos

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How Crayons are Made

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Do's and Don't: How to Draw a Face

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: Hyperlapse Time

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

Video: How to Art

How to Draw a Dog

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video : Feathers

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Hula Hoop

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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7 Inspirational Art Books

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