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

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Danielle Peters

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Ali DeMoro - Featured Artist
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Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Allison Marie Garcia

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Judo No - Featured Artist

Matt Miezio: Featured Artist

Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Rachel Barnes - Mandala Mural in Progress: Featured Artwork

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Paul Jimerson : Featured Artist
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Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Music Profiles

The Rio Theatre

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Judo No - Featured Artist

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Charanpal: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

How To

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

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

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Victorian Candy!

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How To Draw a Person

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

How to Hula Hoop

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

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Art

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

History & Post Cards

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Pehea 'oe?
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Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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The Rio Theatre

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

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

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Stood Here - 1940
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Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Illustration & Drawing

Video: How to Create Latte Art

7 Inspirational Art Books

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Jewelry

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Hand Carving a River Stone

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

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

Performer Spotlight

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

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

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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The Rio Theatre

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

How to Hula Hoop

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Brynne Flidais

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

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

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Videos

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How Crayons are Made

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

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

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video : Feathers

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

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