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Santa Cruz Art League

The Santa Cruz Art League is an art gallery, theater, classroom, and gift shop. The gallery exhibits are free to the public. The Santa Cruz Art League encourages and supports a wide range of visual and performing artists, professional and recreational alike, in a welcoming environment which celebrates the arts and makes them accessible to the community.



IN THE GALLERY

58th Annual High School Show

58th Annual High School Show

Every year this show is very impressive! Each year, each show has it’s own personality. Very talented and very young artists! Over 750 pieces of art!!! See for yourself.

  • Dates: May 3 - 26
  • Reception: Saturday, May 11, 3-5pm
Check out more artwork from the show on our Facebook Page

Spring, Watsonville by Charles Prentiss

Spring, Watsonville by Charles Prentiss

83rd Statewide Exhibit: "Incredible Places"

Juror Michael Zakian is an art Historian, Curator and Director of Pepperdine University's Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. An expert on both plein air and Modernist abstractions.

"Best of Show" $1,000 Award - Plus $1,000 additional cash awards!

  • Juror: Michael Zakian
  • Dates: June 1-30, 2013
  • Reception: June 8th, 3-5pm
  • Jpeg & Prospectus Deadline: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 11:59

Download the Prospectus & Entry at: www.onlinejuriedshows.com

A Look at the California Landscape by Michael Zakian

Join us for a lecture by this year's 83rd Statewide Exhibit, Michael Zakian

Gough Street Shadows

Gough Street Shadows

Black and White (Juried)


  • Dates: June 5–August 4, 2013
  • Reception: Saturday July 13, 3-5pm

Download the prospectus here.
For more information visit www.onlinejuriedshows.com

IN THE LOBBY

Jody Bare - Flowers and Beasts

Jody Bare will be showing her lino-cut prints on mulberry paper: Flowers and Beasts. She studies symbols across the spectrum of time and cultures, incorporating them into her art. She likes to mix up size, proportion, and cultural meanings, drawing from the mystical and realistic.

  • Dates: March 30th - April 21

Classes

Next Ongoing classes starting the week of May 6th

Weekend Workshops

Weekend Workshops are available! Info: 426-5787 or at our Art Classes page.

Ongoing Life Drawing and Painting

Live model. Drop-ins are welcome. No instruction. Facilitated by Open Studio Artist Richard Bennett.

  • Dates and Times:
    Monday Night Drawing - Drawing, 7:00 - 10:00pm
    1st & 3rd Monday Afternoons, Drawing and Painting, 1:30 - 4:30pm

  • Location: in the SCAL classroom
  • Fee: $16 non-members, $14 members, $10 students
  • Instructor: Richard Bennett