1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1061+ words) Exhibitions Manager Shanti Nagwani said Santa Cruz Guitar Co. staff reached out to the museum about possibly doing an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary. The museum asked if they wanted to do an exhibit instead. After visiting the workshop and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (475+ words) SANTA CRUZ — A pair of local arts organizations will retain most of their grant funding from Santa Cruz County after a public outcry prompted a last-minute pivot away from much steeper cuts. The Arts Council Santa Cruz County and the…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (429+ words) The Vatican Museums on Wednesday announced the start of a five-year, $5.5 million project to clean and restore the Raphael Loggia, a 65-meter long, 4-meter wide corridor that is considered one of the highest expressions of Renaissance figurative art. The windowed…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (554+ words) Now the poet and former hip-hop artist is bringing a collection of fairy tale-inspired creations in from the cold for his first museum exhibit. “The Garbage Man,” at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art on the outskirts of Copenhagen, tells…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (181+ words) Santa Cruz Sentinel A river rock masterpiece built by Michael Eckerman arches over the entrance of Felt Street Neighborhood Park in Live Oak. Eckerman is a local stonemason and artist whose creative nature has led him away from traditional design....

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (567+ words) Micha Scott works on her technique in a Tannery World Dance studio as she prepares to present her Artist of the Year Profile Performance, which will take place on June 5 at the Museum of Art and History. Scott, who serves…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (755+ words) The show, titled “Jim Phillips: New Fine Art Prints and Classic ’70s and ’80s Pen and Ink Drawings,” opened Friday at the R. Blitzer Gallery on Santa Cruz’s Westside, and features 15 new large scale art prints and 30 hand-dipped pen and ink drawings…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (551+ words) WATSONVILLE — From the moment people are born, they have the potential to create great art. The preschoolers today scribbling abstract shapes on construction paper with crayon are already getting a head start on utilizing their artistic skills, and at least…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (244+ words) Santa Cruz Sentinel UC Santa Cruz fourth year student Poppy Blu Chambers paints near the UCSC East Field during a session of UC Santa Cruz assistant teaching professor Grant Whipple’s Outdoor Painter’s Project class. The class, ART 137, explores contemporary landscape…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (539+ words) SANTA CRUZ — As a longtime dance instructor, performer and choreographer, Micha Scott of Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center has been in a good position for years to be recognized as Santa Cruz County Arts Commission’s Artist of the Year....