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

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Ann Baldwin May : Featured Artist

Greg Stanley : Featured Artist
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Steve Baranowski : Featured Artist

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

Thomas Spearance: Featured Musician

Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

Interview with Walker Hum
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Gary Irving - Young and Reckless: Featured Series
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Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Robin Blake: Featured Artist
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Ali DeMoro - Featured Artist
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Tracy Oliver : Featured Artist

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Geoffrey Nelson: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Lugew Antes : Featured Artist
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Elliott Bliss - Featured Artist

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Allison Marie Garcia

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Vince Broglio : Featured Artist

Music Profiles

Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Eric Johnson: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony Embraces the Dance

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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The Rio Theatre

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Gina René: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

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

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Love Eternal: Featured Band

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Charanpal: Featured Musician

That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Ashwin Batish: Featured Musician

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

How To

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Video: How to Create Latte Art

How to Draw a Dog

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Art

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Time Lapse Model Painting

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

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Victorian Candy!

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

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

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Draw a Bat

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

How to Draw a Nose

How to Draw a Stick Figure

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

History & Post Cards

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

Stood Here - 1940
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Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

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

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

The Rio Theatre

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

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

Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Pehea 'oe?
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The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

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Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association Picnic

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Illustration & Drawing

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

The Wednesday Work in Progress: Back to School!
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Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

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

Sean Donnelly : Local Artist on Comedy Central
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Video: How to Draw a Bat

Saturday Morning Cartoons: One and the Same
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Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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All Hands on Deck 2017

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

How to Draw a Dog

Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

Jewelry

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Hand Carving a River Stone

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Interview with Alaya Vautier

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

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Performer Spotlight

FashionArt Santa Cruz
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Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Santa Cruz Symphony's Historic Concert with Yuja Wang
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Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

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Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

TWDCC: Night of the Living Dance Part 5

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

How to Hula Hoop

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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The Rio Theatre

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

Aeraflux Presents "dis/connected"
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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

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

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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Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

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

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Videos

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

How to Hula Hoop

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Draw a Bat

How to Draw a Dog

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

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

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video : Feathers

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Make a Simple Block Print

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

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

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

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