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

Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Scott Lindberg & Cristie Thomas: Featured Artists

Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Danielle Peters

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Dylan Kelly - Pack Your Trash: Featured Artwork
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Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Interview with Walker Hum
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Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Judo No - Featured Artist

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

The Art of John Johnson: Featured Exhibit
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Allison Marie Garcia

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Music Profiles

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Gen Rocket : Featured Band

The Rio Theatre

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

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

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Mike Love: Featured Musician

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Love Eternal: Featured Band

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Gina René: Featured Musician

Judo No - Featured Artist

Charanpal: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

How To

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How To Draw a Rose

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

How to Draw a Dog

How to Draw a Stick Figure

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

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

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

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

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How To Draw a Person

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Art

History & Post Cards

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

The Rio Theatre

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Palace Art and Office Supply
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Pehea 'oe?
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Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Stood Here - 1940
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

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

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Illustration & Drawing

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Do's and Don't: How to Draw a Face

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

All Hands on Deck 2017

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Jewelry

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

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

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

The Rio Theatre

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

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

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

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

How to Hula Hoop

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Videos

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

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

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

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

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

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