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

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Michael Pegram : Featured Artist

Jody Ryker : Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Chris Riesner: Featured Artist

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Linda Curtis - Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Julie Rawls

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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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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Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Interview with Walker Hum
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Matt Miezio: Featured Artist

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Rachel Barnes - Mandala Mural in Progress: Featured Artwork

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

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Dimitrious Nichols - Ocean Art Series: Featured Series
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Interview with Alaya Vautier

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Timerie Gordon: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Thomas Spearance: Featured Musician

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

The Rio Theatre

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Love Eternal: Featured Band

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

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

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Judo No - Featured Artist

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Charanpal: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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How To

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Art

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

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

Video : How to Draw a Circle

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

How to Draw a Dog

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How To Draw a Person

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

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

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

How to Draw a Stick Figure

History & Post Cards

Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

The Rio Theatre

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

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

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Pehea 'oe?
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

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

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Santa Cruz in the 80s
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A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Illustration & Drawing

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

All Hands on Deck 2017

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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7 Inspirational Art Books

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Jewelry

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Hand Carving a River Stone

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Interview with Alaya Vautier

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

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

Performer Spotlight

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Brynne Flidais

How to Hula Hoop

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

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

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

The Rio Theatre

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Videos

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: Brain Crack

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

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

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Art

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Hand Carving a River Stone

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

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