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

Art/Now/Next: Interview with Edward Ramirez

Lauren Ringelman - Featured Artist

Julie Rawls : Featured Artist
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Laurel Bushman - Blue Monterey Bay Mural: Featured Artwork

Israel Fickett - Featured Artist
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Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Kirby Scudder: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Becky Olvera Schultz: Featured Artist

Roxanne Corbin : Featured Artist
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Danielle Peters

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Ed Smiley : Featured Artist

Off the Wall Custom Creations: Featured Artist

Jaime Sanchez : Featured Artist and 2016 NEXTies Winner

Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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Art/Now/Next: Interview with Allison Marie Garcia

Ann Altstatt : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Ian Wing - #painterofaight: Featured Series

Thomas Sprayberry: Featured Artist
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Emerson Murray

Tamara Norris: Featured Artist

Linda A. Levy - Raven Lunatic: Featured Series

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Interview with Ann Hazels : 2018 Nexties Artist of the Year

Brooke Mallory: Featured Artist

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist
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Michelle Fleschute - Featured Artist

Open Studios Featured Artist: Mark Yanowsky

The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Crystal Silmi: Featured Artist

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Rachel Barnes - Mandala Mural in Progress: Featured Artwork

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Bridget Henry: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jonas Davidson: Featured Artist

Mary Rhodes - Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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Danielle Williamson : Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Shadley Stephens : Featured Artist

Interview with Walker Hum
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Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Music Profiles

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Henry Chadwick: Featured Musician

Santa Cruz Symphony - Celebration!

Gen Rocket : Featured Band

Gina René: Featured Musician

The Santa Cruz Symphony
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SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Jesse Daniel & the Slow Learners: Featured Band

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

Marya Stark: Featured Musician
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Lauren Shera: Featured Musician
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That 1 Guy: Featured Musician

Mike Love: Featured Musician

Ra.be 333: Featured Musician

Nigel Armstrong: Santa Cruz Symphony's Concertmaster

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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Edge of the West - Featured Musician
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The Brothers Comatose: Featured Band

Santa Cruz Art of Guitar Exhibition and Festival
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Fainting Goats : Featured Band
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Charanpal: Featured Musician

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

Heather Christie: Featured Artist

Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Etienne David Franc : Featured Musician
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SCS Triumphs with The Barber of Seville
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The Santa Cruz Symphony Uplifts Us Again
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Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Featured Artist: Gecko Henry (Album)

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

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Santa Cruz Symphony Performs Musical Poetry

Love Eternal: Featured Band

The Rio Theatre

Stephen Strahm: Featured Artist

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

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

Tommy Emmanuel: Featured Musician

Coffee Zombie Collective: Featured Band

James Durbin: Featured Musician

Phutureprimitive : Featured Musician

Big Water LIVE at the Crow's Nest
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David Pavlovich: Featured Artist

Interview with artist Jassen Todorov
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How To

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

How to Draw a Nose

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

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

4 Tips: How to Relax and Improve Creativity

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Draw a Person

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

Video: How To Draw a Rose

Video : How to Draw an Owl, For Kids

Video: How to Make Fluffy Slime

Time Lapse Model Painting

Video: How to Create Latte Art

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

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Watercolor Tips and Tricks

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

How to Draw a Dog

How to Draw a Stick Figure

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

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

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How To Bind Your Own Sketchbook

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Gain Inspiration for Choreography

How to Hula Hoop

Video: How to Collage with Vik Muniz

Video: How to Art

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Victorian Candy!

History & Post Cards

The Bigfoot Discovery Museum
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Four Snapshots of Santa Cruz, January 1901-1988

Brookdale Fish Hatchery 1910

A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots

Santa Cruz in the 80s
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Redwood Grove - Fine Place Here

All Aboard, Santa Cruz!

Ralph Abraham: Featured Author

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Hotel Palomar, New - Modern - Fireproof

Chasing Around Santa Cruz in 1930

Santa Cruz Casino at Night

History of the Seacliff Beach Cement Ship
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Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz

Colorful 1935 Santa Cruz Map

Santa Cruz Casino in 1901

Palace Art and Office Supply
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Santa Cruz Wave Motor - 1909

Playing with History: Vintage Toys and Games at the SLV Museum
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Before the Boardwalk - Fisherman's Wharf

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

All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!

More Proof That It Is All a Lie Tomorrow - 1907

5 Christmas Greetings from the 1910s

Operator, Give Me GArden 3-3701

Capitola's Final Begonia Festival
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Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath

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

Sea Beach Hotel 1912

Santa Cruz Land Title Company 1959

The Lamborn House Gallery and PVAC
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Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - 1948

Capitola Historical Museum exhibits photographer Ole Ravnos

Horses on the Beach in Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz

The Rio Theatre

Stood Here - 1940
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Pehea 'oe?
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Illustration & Drawing

Interview with Anastasiya Bachmanova
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Ciara Barsotti - Freehand Ink Drawings: Featured Series

7 Inspirational Art Books

Leanna Jensen - 100 Days of Building Creativity: Featured Series

Patrick Woolf - Featured Artist

Bob Ross and Sharpies : Saturday Morning Cartoons

The Art of Nature : Featured Exhibit
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Ciara Barsotti - Space Cowgirls: Featured Series
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How to Draw a Dog

Kamiah Lovett : Featured Artist

Haley Brown - The Coping Calendar 2018: Featured Series

Augie W.K. : Featured Artist
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The Giant Ocean Coloring Book: Featured Exhibit

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

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Always Ready

Video: How to Draw Wildflowers

Lee Maverick: Featured Artist

Madison Wanamaker - Santa Cruz Illustrations: Featured Series
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Limited Edition - Begonia Festival Tribute

Video: How to Create Latte Art

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

All Hands on Deck 2017

Dom Guerena: Featured Artist

Wednesday's Work in Progress
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Doug Edwards: Featured Artist

Jewelry

Progress: Rutilated Ammonite Construction II

Interview with Alaya Vautier

Completed: Spontaneous Swirls

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

Shelon Bennett: Featured Artist

Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Open Studios Featured Artist: Serene Silva

Inspirationand First Steps: Gem Silica Pendant

Completed: Fluorite with Points

Mark Areias Jewelers
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Hand Carving a River Stone

How to Grow Copper Crystals

Completed Progress: Rutilated Ammonite

Completed: Resin Flower Pendant.

Completed: Fiery Feather Earrings

Performer Spotlight

Spotlight on Madeline Jarzembak: Santa Cruz Symphony's Principal Harp
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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 Santa Cruz Symphony
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Santa Cruz Symphony - Verdi's Requiem
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Resurrection”

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2017 Summer Festival
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Performer Spotlight: Alaya Heather Crystal

Santa Cruz Symphony Opening Concert : Fidl-Fantazye

Performer Spotlight: Dyami Tivon Kaplan

Yuja Wang's Encore Concert with the SC Symphony
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Suzanne Schrag: Ebb & Flow Featured Artist

Jonah Kim - Santa Cruz Symphony’s New Principal Cellist

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

Performer Spotlight: Opal del Sol

Wednesday Work Break Video - Drums Meet the Barber of Seville

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with BANDALOOP

Performer Spotlight: Samba Stilt Circus

The Barber of Seville – a Cartoon Classic
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Rites of Spring : Santa Cruz Symphony Concert

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

How to Hula Hoop

8 Tens @ Eight Festival
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Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight

TWDCC presents WINTER DANCE FEST 2017

Symphonic Fire - Santa Cruz Symphony With Cellist Jonah Kim

Santa Cruz Symphony's Invocations

Jesse Autumn: Featured Musician

The SC Symphony's Musical Menagerie
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Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Enlightenment”

Ebb & Flow 2018: Interview with Visual Endeavors

Spotlight on Brass Over Bridges : Santa Cruz Symphony Recital

Rose Calucchia : Featured Artist

Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque

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

Brenda Barcelo - Featured Artist

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

Cabrillo Stage Presents The Addams Family
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FashionArt Santa Cruz
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The Rio Theatre

Marsea Marquis : Featured Artist

SC Symphony Rocks the House with Storm Large

BEAUTY & THE BEAST : Interview with Scenic Designer Skip Epperson

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

The Jewel Theatre Company: Next to Normal

The Nutcracker Ballet with Live Orchestra
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Videos

Video: Interconnected Paintings Time Lapse, Thijme Termaat

Video: Timelapse Spray Paint Mural

Video: How To Design a Seamless Pattern

Video: String Art Installation Time Lapse, Anne Lindberg

Video: How Crayons are Made

Video: Red Inspiration for WIP Wednesday

Video: How to Wood Carve a Portrait

Video: How To Paint a Fried Egg

Video: Magic Tricks for Kids

Tree Removal: Inspiring, Funny, and Maybe a Little Disturbing
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Video : Chasing and Repoussé Process

Video: How to Draw a Mandala

Video : How to Draw a Circle

Video: A Bluegrass State of Mind

Video: Brain Crack

How to Draw a Water Drop Anamorphic Illusion

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

Time Lapse Sand Sculpting

Video: How to Draw Marylin Monroe with Coffee Grounds

Video: How to Paint a Watercolor Landscape

7 Inspirational Art Books

Video : Hypnotic Saturday Speed Art

Video: An Elephant Painting an Elephant

Video: Woodworking Time Lapse, Han's Cantilevered Table

Video: Time lapse Coffee Cup Mosaic

Video : Feathers

Hand Carving a River Stone

Video: How to Draw a Bat

Video: Hyperlapse Time

Art Artifacts – Last Week on Local Santa Cruz

Video: Learning to Dance in a Year

Video: How to Create Latte Art

Video : Night Sky Speed Painting

Video: How To Make A Paper Airplane

Video: How to Art

How to Hula Hoop

Video: Justin Timberlake String Portrait Time Lapse

Video: How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Draw a Dog

Video : How to Make a Wooden Beer Mug

Video: How to do Spray Paint Art

Video: How to Dance - The Criss Cross

Video : Polka Dot Pitcher

Video: Potato Automaton Time Lapse Drawing

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

Video: Time Lapse Watercolor Portrait

Video : Making a Simple Upright Wine Holder

Trips to Santa Cruz, 1937 and 1938
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Video: The Art of Coloring Old Photos

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