In Depth:
Suna Lock & Dana Rader
Co-Owners, Stripe Design Group
Stripe Design Group co-owners, Suna Lock & Dana Rader have infused creativity into their stores to provide a retail experience full of hidden treasures.
Stripe Design Group co-owners, Suna Lock & Dana Rader have infused creativity into their stores to provide a retail experience full of hidden treasures.
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MAH moves forward with plans to remodel Abbott Square
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Busker Fest October 2015
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Public Relations firm celebrates 10 years based in Santa Cruz with wide impact in the consumer tech industry.
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Celebrating the launch of the Choose Santa Cruz brand.
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56,752 square feet of graffiti was cleaned last year through the Graffiti Abatement Program.
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The City of Santa Cruz is pleased to announce the launch of our new City Arts website: SantaCruzCityArts.com.
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The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project is a way to change the way people think about the San Lorenzo River and about Santa Cruz.
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The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project started out as an event – and became a movement. It was a grand experiment on what it would be like to truly share leadership when tackling a shared community challenge. It showed me, more than anything else I’ve been involved in, that the arts have the power to inspire cross-sector conversations, spark activism, build relationships, bridge communities, and improve lives.
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In early June, our adventurous Arts Commission asked people to ‘give us their two cents’ regarding what kind of public art they want to see more of in Santa Cruz. Using pennies that we provided
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2015 marks the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium’s 75th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of Cabrillo Festival’s move downtown to our permanent home. How apropos that with these auspicious milestones we’re able to unveil an ambitious new vision for the future of this iconic gathering place. With the committed support of the Civic Renovation Leadership Team, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Santa Cruz City Council, and the Parks and Recreation Department, great strides have been made in planning for a much-hoped-for renovation of the Civic Auditorium as a performing arts and cultural center for our community.
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I’d like to ask you to take just a moment and imagine Santa Cruz without all of the following things: Live performances by local musicians on stages and on the street, the First Friday Art Tour, live theater like Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Jewell Theater, Open Studios, all the different types of dance performances (again both on stages and in the street), the murals that decorate our walls in dozens of locations throughout the city, the poetry and spoken word performances, all the various sculptures that enliven Pacific Avenue and West Cliff Drive, all the visual arts and performing arts classes and film and creative writing classes in all of our local educational institutions.