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Every artist has a different creative process, and a unique place where their art comes to life. The annual Open Studios Art Tour provides an opportunity to go behind the scenes and more closely understand the style and experience the workspace of a local artist. For the first three weekends in October, hundreds of artists […]
This fall, visitors are invited to browse stunning images featuring the life and landscapes of California’s unique coastal habitats. The The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History is currently presenting California: At the Water’s Edge, an exhibit of work by nature, wildlife, and underwater photographer, Jason Bradley. The exhibit features 35 photographs Bradley took from above and […]
One of the best ways to be creatively inspired is to hear words from entrepreneurs, experimenters, and everyday pioneers whose work has made a mark both locally and abroad. On Friday, September 16th, a group representing Santa Cruz’s innovative community will take the stage to speak at one of the Museum of Art and History’s […]
While many Santa Cruz museums present local history and memorabilia at its best, perhaps none offer a glimpse into this area’s legendary and wonderfully weird side as well as the Bigfoot Discovery Museum. Located in San Lorenzo Valley, the museum is currently celebrating its 12th year as an informal center for discovery science, scientific exploration, […]
Various readers may know mathematician/UCSC professor Ralph Abraham through his pioneering efforts in chaos theory, his association with the late Terence McKenna and/or his comments in the movie DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Ralph’s latest book, “Hip Santa Cruz,” examines the roots of local hip culture—a subject that he also explores at length on his website, […]
Santa Cruz surf and skate lifestyle has been an internationally recognised treasure, and when combined with our local art culture, this city has generated surf and skate artwork unlike anywhere else. One of the most prestigious artists specializing in this genre who has inspired surf and skate art for the past five decades is local resident Jim Phillips. […]
When a guy calls every week for a year, you know he means business. For Steven Katkowsky, that kind of persistence paid off. He eventually received the call back he was hoping for, hightailed it from Santa Cruz, California to Farmington, Pennsylvania in two days, and achieved his goal: acquiring a rare prototype travel trailer […]
What is summer in Santa Cruz without a pioneer potluck picnic? Thanks to the Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association, there is one – and it has been happening every year on the last Saturday in July for more than eighty years. The Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association is an organization of volunteers who preserve the […]
Whenever you introduce new elements to an older art form, you’re bound to catch a little flak from purists. That point isn’t lost on dancer/choreographer Crystal Silmi, who often performs traditional belly dance to modern styles of music and merges traditional belly dance with urban street dance styles like jazz and hip-hop. Crystal Silmi Belly […]
If Joff Jones sounds a little worked up as he speaks to Local Santa Cruz by phone, it’s for good reason: on the day of our conversation, has just been released from jail. “I’ve never, ever been to jail in my life until I started showing my art in public,” the 24-year-old artist says. “Jail […]
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