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

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ali DeMoro - Featured Artist
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Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Sonia Calderon

Carol Summers

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Thomas Spearance: Featured Musician

Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Scott Lindberg & Cristie Thomas: Featured Artists

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Interview with Walker Hum
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Dimitrious Nichols - Ocean Art Series: Featured Series
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Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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F.J. Anderson: Open Studios Featured Artist

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Music Profiles

The Rio Theatre

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

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Gina René: Featured Musician

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Judo No - Featured Artist

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Mike Love: Featured Musician

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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How To

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

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

How to Hula Hoop

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

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video : How to Draw a Circle

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

How to Draw a Nose

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

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

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Time Lapse Model Painting

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Art

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Draw a Bat

History & Post Cards

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

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

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

The Rio Theatre

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Santa Cruz in the 80s
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Pehea 'oe?
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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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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Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

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

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Stood Here - 1940
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Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Illustration & Drawing

All Hands on Deck 2017

How to Draw a Dog

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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7 Inspirational Art Books

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Video: How to Create Latte Art

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

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

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Jewelry

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

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

Hand Carving a River Stone

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Performer Spotlight

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

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

How to Hula Hoop

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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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 Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

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

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Brynne Flidais

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Videos

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

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

Video: How to Art

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Hyperlapse Time

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Feathers

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: Brain Crack

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

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