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

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Thomas Spearance: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Becky Olvera Schultz: Featured Artist

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Music Profiles

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Charanpal: Featured Musician

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

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

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Gina René: Featured Musician

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

The Rio Theatre

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Judo No - Featured Artist

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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How To

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Art

How to Draw a Dog

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

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

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Draw a Rose

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

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

How to Draw a Stick Figure

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Victorian Candy!

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

History & Post Cards

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Stood Here - 1940
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Pehea 'oe?
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Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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The Rio Theatre

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

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Illustration & Drawing

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Video: How to Create Latte Art

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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All Hands on Deck 2017

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

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

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Jewelry

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Interview with Alaya Vautier

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

Hand Carving a River Stone

Performer Spotlight

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

The Rio Theatre

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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How to Hula Hoop

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

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

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

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

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Videos

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: Brain Crack

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

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

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

How to Hula Hoop

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video : Feathers

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

How to Make a Simple Block Print

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

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

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Hand Carving a River Stone

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

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