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

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Carol Summers

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Dylan Kelly - Pack Your Trash: Featured Artwork
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Scott Lindberg & Cristie Thomas: Featured Artists

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Paul Jimerson : Featured Artist
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Lugew Antes : Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Becky Olvera Schultz: Featured Artist

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

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

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Mike Love: Featured Musician

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

The Rio Theatre

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Gina René: Featured Musician

Judo No - Featured Artist

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

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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How To

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

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

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

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

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

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

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Art

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

History & Post Cards

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Palace Art and Office Supply
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The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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The Rio Theatre

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Stood Here - 1940
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All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Pehea 'oe?
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Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

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

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

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

Illustration & Drawing

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

All Hands on Deck 2017

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

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

7 Inspirational Art Books

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

How to Draw a Dog

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

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Jewelry

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Hand Carving a River Stone

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

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

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Brynne Flidais

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

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

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

The Rio Theatre

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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How to Hula Hoop

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Videos

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Brain Crack

How to Hula Hoop

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

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

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video : Feathers

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Dog

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: How to Art

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

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