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Lisa Marie Mariel - "Santa Cruz Sunset Wave"

Lisa Marie Mariel: Featured Artist

Get to know artist Lisa Marie Mariel’s and her “Heart Cards and Keepsake Cards” series: “Art has always been an important way for me to experience, express, and explore my relationship with the world. Observing nature has been and is still my primary inspiration, the shapes and patterns ‘growing’ organically on the page or the […]

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"Vortex"

Ernest Amos-Jackson : Featured Artist

Feel the rhythm in Ernest Amos-Jackson’s energetic’s creations: “I create artwork with a unique, dynamic style and passion. I am compelled and find it necessary to express movement and action, influenced in part by watching cartoons and animated movies. My finished works should appear to be dancing.” “I was born here, at Dominican Hospital and […]

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Nana Montgomery - "Starry Sky"

Nana Montgomery : Featured Artist

Quilter, Nana Montgomery, has lived in Santa Cruz most of her life, having shown in the community for over 20 years. She shares her expressive work: “The imagery in my work comes from a surrealistic tradition that focuses on expression of emotions, ideas and dreams. By employing a vocabulary of symbols that work on multiple […]

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Figure 8 - FKA Twigs

Ben Thompson : Featured Artist

Local artist Ben Thompson shares about his work with digital images from the series, “Prelinger Music Videos”. “I’m a first year UCSC student majoring in Film and Art History. I produce a fairly steady output of digital art, primarily through the medium of video. Using footage from Prelinger Archives, an online database of thousands of […]

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Emergence

Jeff Arnett: Featured Artist

Local artist Jeff Arnett shares some of his recent bronze sculptures. “My first bronzes were created while an art major at UC Santa Cruz in 1971. I came here in 1968 to attend UCSC. I graduated in 1972 with an art major, then in 1979 with a creative writing degree. I’ve lived here ever since.” Find out more […]

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