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The second featured artist for this summer’s “Artist Cards” is Nicholas LaPlaca. Each Artist Card will feature a different artist or work of art, and they are totally free, left out with advertising materials all over Santa Cruz. Keep your eyes open for them out and about in Santa Cruz.
Sometimes my doodles feel a lot like dreams to me. Both dreams and doodles both take inspiration from daily life, usually at moments that we aren’t even aware are inspiring. They can be random—I can’t tell you how many milk cartons and other random objects I draw all the time for no reason. Often, both […]
Good morning, Santa Cruz! I’m so excited to announce that I’m working on a super fun project that I’ll be debuting next week for Saturday Morning Cartoons. I started this morning at the always delicious Walnut Avenue cafe. I can’t wait to share the finished product with you all! Artist- Julianna Chavez
Jesse Huynh is a textile artist and fashion designer working and living in Santa Cruz, currently attending the University. Jesse works with “unconventional materials” as a rebuttal to ideas of conventional fashion design and ordinary clothing fabric, a reflection of his own attitude toward societal norms and expectations. “In middle school some […]
Good morning, Santa Cruz! Don’t forget to stand up for what you believe in–even if they think you’re a quack! Artist- Julianna Chavez
Nora Sarkissian is a local artist working and living in Aptos. Sarkissian is a painter and sculptor who has been teaching art in various locations (including assisting at UCSC) for 30 years. Although she has years of artistic experience, and has had formal exhibitions and showings, Nora presumes proudly that she is “still learning.” “The sculptures […]
Whitney Romberg, a local artist very recently featured at First Friday (Things My Inner Voice Told Me, featured at Camouflage this month), focuses her work on “ideas of identity being queer, multi racial,and female bodied,” as the artist herself explained. “I also like to show ideas of body positivity, going against norms of the American standard of beauty.” […]
Ken Keegan is a name of many titles: baseball player, UCSC alumnus, beloved & retired campus bus driver, gallery opener, and sponsor for a sport’s radio show on 1080 KSCO AM (Coach’s Decision, Wednesdays from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM). However, today we’re appreciating the artwork of Ken Keegan, rightfully self-described as “abstract, surreal, […]
We are going to be doing a regular series of “Artist Cards” this summer. Each card will feature a different artist or work of art, and they are totally free, left out with advertising materials all over Santa Cruz. Keep your eyes open for them out and about in Santa Cruz.
Mike King gives us a sneak preview of his ten part series entitled Neon on the Wall. Though a psychedelic myriad of color and flow, the artist himself has for the most part allowed the art to speak for him. It’s understandable–with miraculous maybe-natural swirls on top of washes of color that you never knew […]
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