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

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Carol Summers

Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Linda Cover : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Sara Sha - Featured Artist
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Sasha Neese - Featured Artist
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Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Music Profiles

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Heather Christie: Featured Artist

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Gina René: Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

The Rio Theatre

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

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

How To

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Victorian Candy!

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

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

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : How to Draw a Circle

How to Hula Hoop

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

How to Draw a Dog

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Create Latte Art

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

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

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

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

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: How to Art

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How Crayons are Made

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Draw a Bat

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

History & Post Cards

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

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

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

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

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

The Rio Theatre

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Stood Here - 1940
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Pehea 'oe?
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Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

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

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Illustration & Drawing

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

How to Draw a Dog

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

Jewelry

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

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

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Hand Carving a River Stone

Performer Spotlight

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

How to Hula Hoop

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

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

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

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

The Rio Theatre

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Brynne Flidais

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Videos

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Brain Crack

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

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

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How Crayons are Made

How to Hula Hoop

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

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

Video: How to Art

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Dog

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Hand Carving a River Stone

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

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