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

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

Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Interview with Walker Hum
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Tracy Oliver : Featured Artist

Carol Summers

Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Music Profiles

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Gina René: Featured Musician

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Judo No - Featured Artist

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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The Rio Theatre

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

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

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

How To

Video: How Crayons are Made

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

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Victorian Candy!

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Art

How to Draw a Nose

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

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

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

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

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

How to Draw a Dog

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

History & Post Cards

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

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

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Pehea 'oe?
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The Rio Theatre

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

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

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

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

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Stood Here - 1940
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The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Illustration & Drawing

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

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

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

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Video: How to Create Latte Art

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Jewelry

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Hand Carving a River Stone

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Performer Spotlight

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

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

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

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

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Brynne Flidais

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Videos

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video : Feathers

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How Crayons are Made

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video : How to Draw a Circle

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video: How to Draw a Bat

7 Inspirational Art Books

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

Video: How to Art

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

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