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Ann Baldwin May has lived in Santa Cruz for over 35 years. After creating over 300 bed quilts since the 1970’s, Ann turned her focus to art quilts. Her art quilts may be abstract, whimsical or impressionistic. Her inspiration comes from the natural world, as well as from Mexican and Native American influences. Her materials […]
What sets the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History apart from others of a similar nature is the opportunity visitors have to interact with every dimension the museum has to offer. The MAH’s installations, tours, educational programs, and community events are specifically designed to invite guests to explore, engage, and interpret creative expression and […]
An easy tutorial; How to Draw a Rose. Simple but fun drawing tutorials are not only fun to follow along with, I find that they can be VERY relaxing to watch! Even seasoned artists can enjoy the mellow serenity of theses types of how-to videos, but for beginners you should feel free to follow along […]
Year End Art this week in Santa Cruz: Dec 27th, 2015 – Jan 2nd, 2016 As we wrap up a great year, we highlight the last artist of our ebb and flow series, and head downtown for a New Years Eve celebration. Thanks for being here with us, and we are looking forward to a […]
Art this week in Santa Cruz: Dec 6th-Dec 12th, 2015 We found some bright art out and about this week in Santa Cruz. From Downtown to Capitola and up to Davenport, we found a little bit of color for everyone. Instagram
There was a time when the San Lorenzo teemed with life. Travelers came to Santa Cruz from all around to vacation and fish along the river. This past June, Timerie Gordon and Charlie Prograce of Nielsen Studios Architecture and Design paid tribute to that chapter of Santa Cruz’s history by installing six fishing poles on […]
When local artist Kirby Scudder built a 23-foot salmon for the Ebb & Flow River Arts Project this past June, he decided to have a little fun before installing it. He and a few co-conspirators loaded the industrial-strength cardboard sculpture into an SUV and took it—as he puts it—“wherever I could find a place where […]
While walking along the San Lorenzo River levee earlier this year, Ann Altstatt received a spontaneous visit from her muse. “It was just one of those moments where things line up, and you get a flash of inspiration—sort of like a snapshot of an idea,” the local painter/printmaker/science illustrator recalls. Lorenzo River during the month […]
With its redwoods, sloughs, wetlands and wild plants, Santa Cruz County holds a lifetime’s supply of artistic subject matter for local photographer/printer Linda Cover. A SPECTRA artist who has been teaching in the area for more than a decade, Cover specializes in nature photos enhanced with materials like orange oil, pastels and charcoal. Originally from […]
Based out of Davenport California, Steve Baranowski creates some beautiful handmade tiles.
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