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

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Allison Marie Garcia

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Sonia Calderon

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Paul Jimerson : Featured Artist
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Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Julie Rawls

Scott Lindberg & Cristie Thomas: Featured Artists

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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James Durbin: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Gina René: Featured Musician

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

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

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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The Rio Theatre

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Mike Love: Featured Musician

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

How To

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

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

How to Draw a Dog

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

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

How to Hula Hoop

How to Draw a Nose

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

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

History & Post Cards

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Pehea 'oe?
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Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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The Rio Theatre

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Stood Here - 1940
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Illustration & Drawing

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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All Hands on Deck 2017

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

7 Inspirational Art Books

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

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

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Jewelry

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

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

Hand Carving a River Stone

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

How to Hula Hoop

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

The Rio Theatre

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

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 SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Videos

Hand Carving a River Stone

How to Draw a Dog

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

7 Inspirational Art Books

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video : Feathers

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: Hyperlapse Time

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