Check out designer Nick Ashcroft who uses different strengths of coffee in espresso cups to create a special design.
Check out designer Nick Ashcroft who uses different strengths of coffee in espresso cups to create a special design.
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Art Artifacts this week in Santa Cruz: Dec. 4 – Dec. 11, 2016 Instagram Follow us on Instagram This Week’s Articles
Going For Art this week in Santa Cruz: Oct. 31 – Nov. 6, 2016 Go for the art and see this week’s featured artists and exhibitions! Instagram Follow us on Instagram This Week’s Articles Matt Miezio: Featured Artist “The majority of my work is exploring surrealism or futurism based on my current state of mind. […]
DelightFall this week in Santa Cruz: Oct. 23rd – Oct. 30th, 2016 Check out all of the DelightFall things happening so far this season in Santa Cruz! Instagram Follow us on Instagram This Week’s Articles
Vintage Business Card E. W. TURNER PAINTING CONTRACTOR PRICES RIGHT – TRY ME Check out this 1950s vintage business card. I particularly love the old Santa Cruz phone number GArden 3-3701. Since those two bold letters were just easier-to-understand placeholders for numbers (G=4 and A=2 on your phone keypad) that number today would be (831) […]
Interview with Santa Cruz Shakespeare artistic director Mike Ryan Just over a year ago, Santa Cruz Shakespeare artistic director Mike Ryan received some distressing news: his theater company’s lease on Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen, the spot in the UCSC redwoods that has been the site of Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s summer presentations since 1981, had not been […]
If you’re familiar with just a few local artists, abstract painter Ed Smiley is probably one of them. The artist walked us through his technical process of making these exquisitely wild paintings: “My art practice incorporates acrylic transfer of digital printing and xerography into a acrylic painting, as well as inclusion of drawing media, and […]
When local artist Kirby Scudder built a 23-foot salmon for the Ebb & Flow River Arts Project this past June, he decided to have a little fun before installing it. He and a few co-conspirators loaded the industrial-strength cardboard sculpture into an SUV and took it—as he puts it—“wherever I could find a place where […]
With its redwoods, sloughs, wetlands and wild plants, Santa Cruz County holds a lifetime’s supply of artistic subject matter for local photographer/printer Linda Cover. A SPECTRA artist who has been teaching in the area for more than a decade, Cover specializes in nature photos enhanced with materials like orange oil, pastels and charcoal. Originally from […]
