Popular AAS instructor Brian Bowes during class. Brian Bowes and his Comicstrip Creations students at Scotts Valley Middle School are featured in an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on September 23, 2016. Read the article here. The Art Center is proud to announce that we have secured a $20,000 grant from the Rydell Foundation, [...]
Come join the fun and see the clay get put into action! SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 2016 Saturday, Sept. 24 / 10 am – 4 pm Workshop with Lisa Reinertson Register early to save your space! Sunday, Sept. 25 / 11 am – 4 pm Free fun for the whole family! Artist demos, crazy contests, [...]
By Julie Horner Weaving playfully through the crowded village, a garland of flowers among flowing locks, with a flounce of skirting she turns her head smiling and then she is gone among the dust and merry din. Hands move purposefully over wet clay on a potter’s wheel, coaxing and caressing with a lover’s touch while [...]
Loaves & Fishes Executive Director Margarita Cortez and event coordinator Lin Colavin, presented an Award of Appreciation to the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center Board on Monday evening, November 14. Margarita expressed her sincere appreciation for the Art Center’s donation of 60 beautiful bowls to help Loaves & Fishes “Empty Bowls” fundraising efforts. She shared [...]
On the last day in 2003, Barbara and Jim Thomas finalized a huge generous donation to our community: they gift deeded their commercial property in downtown Ben Lomond to the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, a local non-profit arts organization. Their gift came at a time when most local arts organizations were struggling, and it [...]
