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

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Thomas Spearance: Featured Musician

Open Studios Featured Artist: Sonia Calderon

Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Interview with Walker Hum
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Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Judo No - Featured Artist

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Matt Miezio: Featured Artist

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Rachel Barnes - Mandala Mural in Progress: Featured Artwork

Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Scott Lindberg & Cristie Thomas: Featured Artists

Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Judo No - Featured Artist

James Durbin: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Mike Love: Featured Musician

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

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

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Gina René: Featured Musician

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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The Rio Theatre

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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How To

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

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Victorian Candy!

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Art

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

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How To Draw a Person

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Nose

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

History & Post Cards

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

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

The Rio Theatre

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Stood Here - 1940
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Pehea 'oe?
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Palace Art and Office Supply
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

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

Illustration & Drawing

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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How to Draw a Dog

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Create Latte Art

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

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

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Jewelry

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Hand Carving a River Stone

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Interview with Alaya Vautier

How to Grow Copper Crystals

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

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Performer Spotlight

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

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

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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How to Hula Hoop

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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The Rio Theatre

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Rose Calucchia : 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

Videos

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How Crayons are Made

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

How to Hula Hoop

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : Feathers

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: Brain Crack

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Art

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

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video : How to Draw a Circle

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

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