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

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

The Art of John Johnson: Featured Exhibit
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

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

Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Allison Marie Garcia

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Ali DeMoro - Featured Artist
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Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Julie Rawls

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Lugew Antes : Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Interview with Walker Hum
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Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Matt Miezio: Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Carol Summers

Music Profiles

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Gina René: Featured Musician

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The Rio Theatre

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

How To

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Victorian Candy!

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Create Latte Art

How to Hula Hoop

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

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

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

History & Post Cards

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Pehea 'oe?
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Palace Art and Office Supply
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Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

The Rio Theatre

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

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

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Stood Here - 1940
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Illustration & Drawing

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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How to Draw a Dog

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

All Hands on Deck 2017

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

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

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

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

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Jewelry

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Hand Carving a River Stone

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed: Fluorite with Points

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

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Performer Spotlight

The Rio Theatre

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Brynne Flidais

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

How to Hula Hoop

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

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's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Videos

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video : Feathers

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: Brain Crack

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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How to Make a Simple Block Print

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

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

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Draw a Bat

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

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Create Latte Art

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video: How to Art

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