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Article by: Fleur Williams, originally posted at Bizarre Bay Get ready to sip and stroll by the ocean this weekend – the popular Capitola Art & Wine Festival returns to the Monterey Bay for its 35th year. Distinguished by its charming beachside setting and non-stop activities, the annual Art & Wine Festival offers free admission to a […]
Would you like to have your driftwood artwork featured on LocalSC? We are going to be doing an article on driftwood art and artists in Santa Cruz. If you have been working on: Sculpture Photography Jewelry Or anything else with driftwood, then we want to see your work. If you would like to be featured […]
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Mechanic Art this week in Santa Cruz: Nov.7th – Nov. 13th, 2016 From Instruments in an orchestra to a detailed drawing, machines come up as a tool and inspiration for art all around us. Check it out! Instagram
Local artists have their fair share of challenges when it comes to exhibiting and selling work – the cost of living in Santa Cruz and the fragile state of the economy are no small matters to contend with. Luckily, this area also has an empowered community working ‘round the clock to expand the production and […]
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 […]
Michael Pegram: Fall skies over the Walton Lighthouse A Santa Cruz resident for over 15 years, Michael Pegram lived the last 13 of those years in a home near Walton Lighthouse. Raised in Los Gatos, Michael doesn’t know if it was the food, live music or longboard surfing breaks that won him over. But whatever […]
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 […]
Just as some visual artists use music for inspiration while they draw, paint or sculpt, Jesse Autumn uses visual art as inspiration for her music. When she enters the recording studio, the local harpist/pianist/vocalist adorns her piano with images that fuel her imagination. “I bring little tiny postcards of paintings that I’m really into, or […]
Charanpal is a Santa Cruz-based devotional singer whose music is rooted in the practice of Kundalini yoga. Her new album, Aeons, reached #4 on the iTunes World Music Charts within five hours of its release on September 8th. Local Santa Cruz: What’s going on in your world right now, Charanpal? Charanpal: Well, I just wrapped […]
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