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

Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Joey Kochlacs - Madrone and Walnut: Featured Series
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Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Danny Diamond: Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Kathy Cheer - Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

Mott Jordan : Open Studios Featured Artist

Charanpal: Featured Musician

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Artist Card : Mott Jordan

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Linda A. Levy : Featured Artist
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Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

The Art of John Johnson: Featured Exhibit
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Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Julie Rawls

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Tracy Oliver : Featured Artist

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist
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Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Music Profiles

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Judo No - Featured Artist

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Gina René: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Mike Love: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Love Eternal: Featured Band

The Rio Theatre

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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The Santa Cruz Symphony
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Soars to New Heights with “Music of the Spheres”

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

How To

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Victorian Candy!

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

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

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

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: How to Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

How to Draw a Stick Figure

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

How to Draw a Dog

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

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

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

History & Post Cards

Stood Here - 1940
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Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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The Rio Theatre

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

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

Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

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

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

Pehea 'oe?
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SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Illustration & Drawing

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Video: How to Create Latte Art

All Hands on Deck 2017

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Character Illustration: Brenda the Botanist
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Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

7 Inspirational Art Books

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

How to Draw a Dog

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

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

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Jewelry

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

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Hand Carving a River Stone

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Performer Spotlight

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

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

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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How to Hula Hoop

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

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

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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The Rio Theatre

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

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

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Brynne Flidais

Cathy Warner : 2018 Gail Rich Award Honoree

Videos

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video : Can Internet Memes Be Art?

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video : Feathers

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

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

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

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

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: Brain Crack

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Art

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

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