Art
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5.1KWestside ‘Art Roommates’ Thrive in Shared Studio
The creatives behind Coco Chispa pottery and JuiceBox Surfboards split a studio by choice
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7.4K2Saying Yes To The (Divorce) Dress
A local photo project encourages subjects to slip into a cursed gown and open up about their breakups
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5.1KBaroque Festival Brings Back Bach
Local festival’s 46th season recreates the world of a musical genius
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7.1K1The Flavor of Watsonville’s New ‘Sabor’ Mural
Local artists had to fight for public art project
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5.9K1The Legacy of ‘On the Road’s Al Hinkle
Beat movement muse passes away at age 92
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6.9KStudents Expand Creativity in Santa Cruz Gives Arts Programs
How three nonprofits help students learn about arts, culture and themselves
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5.6KFull Spektrum: The Best Local Art of 2018
If nothing else, at least 2018 was a great year for the arts
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7.0K1Danusha Laméris Launches Pop-Up Poetry in Santa Cruz
The county’s new poet laureate wants to push poetry out of its comfort zone
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4.5KRadical Movement Factory Takes Westside to New Heights
‘Shine!’ brings aerial action to the Wrigley Building
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6.3KA Guide to Holiday Entertainment in Santa Cruz County
From ballet and Celtic music to a celebration of our immigrant nation
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6.6KNina Simon Stepping Down as Director of the MAH
In leaving the Museum of Art and History, Simon aims to serve as an ambassador to a new movement
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6.3KMountain Community Theater Presents ‘Miracle on 34th Street’
MCT’s 10th ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ puts the holidays in perspective
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4.3KPreview: MAH’s ‘Power Hour of Fun’
Elise Granata on the silliest and most fun hour adults will ever spend
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4.7KTheater Review: ‘Suds’
Crowd-pleasing ’60s oldies get a new spin in Jewel Theatre Company musical
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7.6KMajesty: A New Queer Dance Party and Drag Show at Motion Pacific
New bi-monthly drag show adds important LGBTQ+ space in Santa Cruz
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4.2K5 Things To Do in Santa Cruz Nov. 6-13
Guns meet art at Radius Gallery; Mountainfilm Tour makes Santa Cruz stop
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5.7KFor Students By Students: UCSC Rainbow Theatre Turns 25
New season productions run through mid-November
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4.5KFourth Annual Plein Air Festival Returns to Capitola
Four days of live landscape painting and plenty of squinting by 40 artists
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4.4K2Y2K International Looping Festival Returns to Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz’s Y2K International Looping Festival gathers the world’s best practitioners of an experimental art
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6.4KMatt de la Peña’s ‘Carmela’ Writes the Book on Watsonville—For Kids
Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson pen ‘Carmela Full of Wishes,’ set in Santa Cruz County
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5.3KGlow: Festival of Fire and Light returns to the MAH
Fire Skee-Ball among the latest additions to this year’s festival
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4.4KHow to Get the Most Out of Open Studios 2018
A guide to Santa Cruz County’s premiere art tour
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5.2K1Pivot Runway Show Carries on Santa Cruz Fashion Tradition
‘Hall of Fashion’ picks up where FashionArt left out
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3.9KPhoto or Painting? Exploring Artist F.J. Anderson’s Ocean Realism
Local artist’s remarkably realistic wave art is the next best thing to the beach
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5.4KReview: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’
A dark-comedy debut for Jewel Theater’s new season
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3.3KNew Anthology Celebrates ‘Santa Cruz Weird’
Collection of short stories backs up local rallying cry
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4.9KSanta Cruz Leaves its Mark on MAH’s Interactive ‘Coyote Now’
Artist Ryan Feddersen brings indigenous folktale into the 21st century
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4.2K3Why I Married a Muralist
As Santa Cruz celebrates the life of local artist James Aschbacher, a remembrance from the woman who knew him best
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3.8KThe Found-Object Menagerie of Peter Koronakos
Meet the local artist behind the annual ‘Oddball’ show
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5.2KPreview: The ‘Melt Me Into The Ocean’ Experience
An experimental sound event will bring participants under the sea
