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

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Carol Summers

Maytal Gotesman - Featured Artist
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Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Paul Jimerson : Featured Artist
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Ali DeMoro - Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Tracy Oliver : Featured Artist

Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Ben Johnson: Featured Artist
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Dylan Kelly - Pack Your Trash: Featured Artwork
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum by Elliott Bliss

Music Profiles

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

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Judo No - Featured Artist

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

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

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

The Rio Theatre

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Gina René: Featured Musician

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

How To

How to Draw a Nose

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

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

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

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

Time Lapse Model Painting

Victorian Candy!

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Art

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

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

How to Hula Hoop

History & Post Cards

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Stood Here - 1940
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT... Or Cars

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Pehea 'oe?
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Palace Art and Office Supply
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The Rio Theatre

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

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

Illustration & Drawing

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

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

How to Draw a Dog

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

7 Inspirational Art Books

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Jewelry

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Interview with Alaya Vautier

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

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Hand Carving a River Stone

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

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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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

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

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

How to Hula Hoop

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

The Rio Theatre

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

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

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Brynne Flidais

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

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

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Videos

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Art

Video: Hyperlapse Time

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

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Hand Carving a River Stone

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video : Feathers

How to Hula Hoop

How to Draw a Dog

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: Brain Crack

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

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