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For every form of art, there is a dedicated community of locals banding together to teach, share, and support it. The Santa Cruz Watercolor Society is one such group offering personal and professional opportunities in plein air watercolor and creative critique since the early 1960s. Watercolor paintings from the Society’s current collective of artists are […]
When a guy calls every week for a year, you know he means business. For Steven Katkowsky, that kind of persistence paid off. He eventually received the call back he was hoping for, hightailed it from Santa Cruz, California to Farmington, Pennsylvania in two days, and achieved his goal: acquiring a rare prototype travel trailer […]
What is summer in Santa Cruz without a pioneer potluck picnic? Thanks to the Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association, there is one – and it has been happening every year on the last Saturday in July for more than eighty years. The Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association is an organization of volunteers who preserve the […]
As our town’s longest standing arts organization, the Santa Cruz Art League has been a steadfast center for supporting and educating artists and the visiting public for 97 years. The SCAL has a theater, a classroom, and an art gallery providing admission free exhibitions. In addition to presenting artwork by our regional community, the league […]
The yellow house at 37 Sudden Street in Watsonville may appear to passersby as simply an old, charming Victorian building. Those who know its value, however, know it to be the Lamborn House – a historic landmark dating back to 1900, as well as the busy headquarters and bright gallery of the Pajaro Valley Arts […]
In early 1975, locals Tim Jackson, Rich Wills, and Sheba Burney banded together to form a nonprofit organization and open a venue for live jazz music. The trio sold items at the flea market, and with $250 formed the Kuumbwa Jazz Society. After a few years of local fundraising concerts, the group secured a home […]
Local artist Michelle Fleschute shares about her abstract acrylics: “After graduating with my degree in Studio Art from Cabrillo I transferred to San Jose State. While I graduated with a degree in PR I always painted, mostly sticking to Realism. Finally, while working on some very technical bark on a tree, I realized I just […]
In the late 1800’s, a local naturalist and lighthouse keeper named Laura Hecox started a collection of Indian artifacts, shells and specimens. She donated her collection to the City of Santa Cruz to establish its first public museum. In 1905, the museum opened in downtown Santa Cruz before being moved in 1954 to the East […]
Walk inside the wooden walls of the Capitola Historical Museum and you’ll step back in time with an archive of the oldest seaside resort on the West Coast. Since its establishment in 1966, the museum has been a local treasure trove of artifacts and information documenting the art and history of Capitola’s busy beach area. […]
Artist Lauren Ringelman shares about her work: “I love recycled art, it makes me feel like a mad scientist. Anything can be art; everything is art. One of the best compliments I’ve ever been given was from a friend who said “Lauren can […]
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