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

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Lugew Antes : Featured Artist
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Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Music Profiles

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Judo No - Featured Artist

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Gina René: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

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

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

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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How To

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

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Art

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

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

How to Draw a Dog

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

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

Victorian Candy!

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

History & Post Cards

Pehea 'oe?
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Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

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

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Santa Cruz Casino at Night

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

The Rio Theatre

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Stood Here - 1940
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A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

Illustration & Drawing

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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7 Inspirational Art Books

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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All Hands on Deck 2017

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Jewelry

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed: Fluorite with Points

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

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Hand Carving a River Stone

Performer Spotlight

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

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

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Brynne Flidais

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

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

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

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

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

The Rio Theatre

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

How to Hula Hoop

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Videos

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

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

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Create Latte Art

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

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

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