Artist Registry at First Friday Santa Cruz

Jim Cyb My interest in photography started as a young boy when my Mom let me use her Brownie Target Six-20 box camera. Photography has been an important part of my life ever since. I am a self-taught photographer with a love for photographing birds, big birds mostly, but not only birds. Antique Cars, Landscapes, Architecture, Panoramas, [...]

Leah Lubin Events Art Exhibit at Motiv, 1209 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz: July 1 – 31, 2013, Reception: July 5, 2013, 4 PM to 6 PM. Music by Gary Gates Acoustic. See Leah’s web site for more information. Leah Lubin is an author and artist. Born in Haifa, Israel in 1951, she moved to England when she [...]

Stoney Miller A Monterey Bay Native, inspired by nature. Focus of art is where the sea meets the land. Stability and the instability of the moment. With a back ground in tribal wave designs’. Now exploring textures and mix mediums, A mix of land features and large waves with water current and sky accents. Art has been [...]

Emily Meehan Born 1991 Emily Meehan was raised in Napa, California and has been a student of art since early childhood. With parents who are both artistically and musically inclined, Emily was encouraged at a young age to start making work and honing her skills in the painting and drawing arena since a young age. Though she [...]

Karen Toole “the oral tradition supplies an ambiguous answer-sometimes even in the form of a riddle-to a common practical question. Truth as a certainty. Truth as an uncertainty” states John Berger in Keeping a Rendevous. Some of my paintings might be initially decribed as visual cliches. Familar objects, or symbols referenced in the pieces are universally recognized. [...]

calvin tabucchi After retiring from public school teaching for some thirty years I finally got some time to devote to painting. I enjoy painting people. People that catch my eye for one reason or another.Sometimes it’s a mood or an expression on a face or simply a culture txt that I appreciate. Many of my paintings reflect [...]

John F. Hunter Hello, my name is John Hunter. My specialty consists of printing my art on silver and, gold metallic photo paper, which is a highly dynamic paper, that makes colors, and water look outstanding, literally and figuratively.. : ) This paper also, gives my shot`s, a wonderful depth of field. I choose all of my shots [...]

Zannah Noe BIOGRAPHY Zannah Noe is fine artist working in mix media. As a formally trained photographer and painter she is using these mediums to retranslate her images from photos to silkscreens to paintings to 3d objects. She is originally from Concord Massachusetts but resides in San Francisco, California. She studied photography under Carrie Mae Weems at [...]

Paul Lee Paul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967. In 1976 alongside Paige Smith, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry Brown’s [...]

Carey Cooper Odden More than 20 years ago my love for taking pictures was sparked with the introductory photography class I took in high school. Being a natural observer, I fell in love with the experience of viewing the world around me through a camera lens. Time passed quickly and easily as I snapped pictures on my borrowed manual [...]

Purple Poem Craft ♥ Purple Poem Craft is a unique personalized jewelry store. I live in a pretty red wood cabin in Ben Lomond, California. I use high quality gemstones, crystals, sterling silver, and gold to create simple jewelries. Making jewelries brings brightness to my life. It says, “there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way”. [...]

Selena Zontos Local Santa Cruz artist. I live, work, and create here. Like all artists, art has been a part of my life from the beginning, it simply defines my existence. I have a BFA from San Jose State which enabled me to tap in to the conceptual aspect of art and really opened my eyes. My [...]

Sharon King I create silk screens and digital photographs. My work is largely autobiographical and often contains multiple images relating to personal stories. Most recently, I am showing work at the “In Dreams” invitational exhibit at the Santa Cruz County Bank, through April, 2013.

Karen Asherah Karen Asherah is a fine artist specializing in animal and nature photography. Most of her images are from Felton and locations around the Central Coast of California. Karen is passionate about representing the unique character and personality of her subjects. Many of her images include horses at liberty. Through her guardianship of a Paint named [...]

Dru Thorensen I am inspired by, and drawn to, the beautiful California coast line. Im am trying to simply capture the patterns, colors and textures of the sand and stone that are shaped by the wind, sun and ocean.

Hilgard Muller My name is Hilgard, people that know me call me Hil. I am originally from South Africa but have lived in the States since I was 4, and in Santa Cruz since 1997. I come from a very creative family, including my dad who was an art director deep in the heart of Los Angeles. [...]

Annie MacHale While a young woman in my teens, I discovered the inkle loom and weaving became a lifelong passion. This type of loom makes narrow pieces, no more than 6” in width. Within this narrow constraint, there are endless possibilities for combining colors into patterns. My idea in creating a woven piece is that it should be [...]

Joao de Brito João de Brito (1958 – ) Portuguese American João de Brito was born on Azores Island of Portugal, he lived in New England and currently lives in Northern California, he has travelled extensively throughout California, the U.S., Canada, Central America, Asia, Pacific Islands and Europe to paint in oils en plein aire. From early age, [...]

Alissa B custom jewelry Alissa B. is unique handmade gemstone beaded jewelry, with many one-of-a-kind pieces that appeal to a wide variety of ages and styles. I use gemstones, Swarovski crystal, glass beads, and metals including Sterling Silver, Brass, and most recently pure hammered Copper. I particularly love to work with individuals to custom design jewelry that is unique [...]

C.C. Tazio Childress C.C. TAZIO CHILDRESS grew up in Oakland California where he was influenced by the Figurative Abstraction and Abstract Expressionist movements happening in the Bay area during the 1950’s. He recalls even as a youngster, being captivated by the abstract art he saw when exploring the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) which happened to [...]

John Corbeaux My name is John I’m a 30 year old sign and mural artist born and raised in the south bay area. I’ve been involved in the street art culture since the young age of 11 and started taking it serious in 1998. My mural work spreads the west coast from Seattle to Los Angeles, one [...]

Marilyn Kuksht Marilyn Kuksht has been a full time sculptor for over 20 years working primarily in fabricated steel and cast bronze. At the peak of a successful career in corporate management, Kuksht abruptly changed course to focus on art. Since then she has won several juried competitions and has monumental public work at Los Gatos Civic [...]

judith maxfield Raised in Los Angeles, and painting in oil since childhood, I graduated from UCLA with a B.A School of Fine Arts. In that urban setting, economic hardship, racial issues, polio and personal identity – all of it – was the cultural mix that formed my experience. My fear of art making took me sidestepping, first [...]

Jim Potterton Jim Potterton is originally from New York, born in Brooklyn and raised on the South Shore of Long Island. As a boy he would wander for hours exploring the local woods and waterways. He reveled in the experience of adventure and discovery in the outdoors. Jim often entertained himself by drawing and doodling in his [...]

HaVen Art Studio “Releasing More Creativity Into Our Community” is our motto and how we share art with others. Haven Art Studio began in California, 2005 and we now travel the world creating new art. We started this dream with our large family of artists. With four sisters and two brothers, our family chose to pursue art. Eight [...]

Anne LaBrie http://www.annelabrie.com http://www.facebook.com/AnneLaBrieGallery It is my joy to capture, with my camera, spontaneous and fleeting shapes and forms in nature. The random sticks and seaweed that are found on a beach, the shadow that forms when light falls through the slats of an awning, or the play of liquid in a hot skillet! I then [...]

William E. Ferre William E. Ferre is a local artist with a gift for realism. Painting mostly in oils with the occasional watercolor he has a remarkable innate ability to capture details and reflections in his art. Born in Southern California in 1949, William started sketching what he saw very early in his life. At 18, he moved [...]

alon brandman alon brandman lives in santa cruz california. he paints open air oil portraits of california old growth trees.

Cristina Sayers As a retired award winning child’s coloring contest enthusiatst, I returned to creating art after the birth of my 4th child. During this time of exploration and creativety, I discovered the love of Mixed Media combined with Abstract painting. With a mixed use of oil pastels, acyrlic paint, & window flower style stencils, I give [...]

Joy Marquez Learning to embrace her spirit as an ARTIST after previous careers in the Navy, government consulting, and pharmaceutical sales, Joy launched her business – JOYFULLY BLOOMING – in the summer of 2012. An INTROVERT in extrovert clothing, she’s questing to undo 30-something years of Type A conditioning. Joy’s favorite hobby is sleep, while PHOTOGRAPHY and [...]

Brenda Barcelo Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, I am a Hispanic linguist and have been a UCSC Spanish language and culture instructor since 1995. I am a self-taught wood carver. I began working with balsa wood as a child in Uruguay, creating a small collection of wooden masks, which unfortunately, has been lost. As an adult I took [...]

Stephanie Schriver STEPHANIE SCHRIVER, PAINTER AND SCULPTOR, IN GALLERY/STUDIO 122 at the TANNERY ARTS CENTER 1050 River Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Currently I’m creating large clay sculptures ranging from humorous figures to interpretive free forms. I feature my painting collections and sculptures during First Friday [...]

Mary Karlton I am an artist. Painting is a joy to me. I paint what I love, and I love what I paint. Painting takes me to a place where I can reach into a deeper part of myself and bring forth my unique expression of what I find beautiful. I approach the canvas with purpose and [...]

Elise Ann Wormuth I am a Central Coast photographer and digital artist. I use a process called “texturing,” along with other methods, to manipulate photographs. The image develops not with a click of a button in Photoshop but rather with a painstaking sequence of steps that results in a work that occupies a space in which it is [...]

Jacob Sackin Jacob Sackin grew up in Columbia, Missouri and Kansas City. After graduating with a B.A. in English from the University of Kansas, he spent a year volunteering in McLeod Ganj, India, the home of the Tibetan government in exile. In India, during one of the Dalai Lama’s teachings, he made his first mandala-like drawing, entitled Samsara, [...]

Aaron Johnson My oil paintings and woodcut prints visually explore the natural world and our human relationships within it. In my tree series, gestures of California trees draw my eye to their underlying structure and geometry of form. Some paintings incorporate borders, giving each tree a space of its own, and acknowledging that the tree image is [...]

Julia & Lance Photography & Design We are Julia Held and Lance Miller, a husband and wife team from Santa Cruz, California. The majority of our work focuses on landscapes and wildlife. We have a passion for the natural world, and capturing its special moments brings happiness to us and to others. Photography has inspired us to see the world differently, [...]

Jim Otis “When I work, I use color to drawn the observer into my world. Everyone perceives an image differently,as their own eyes view it, and draw their own unique feelings and conclusions, as every other person on the planet has…no one sees the same thing! My paintings want to lure those feelings and senses to explore beyond what their eyes tell [...]

Cher Roberts I paint with acrylics on canvas, exploring an expressive representation of the human form to convey emotion and to capture a moment in time. Sometimes edgy, sometimes fun, my work leans towards the abstract, utilizing a loose application of paint and boldness of color and line. Both the observation of people and the collection of [...]

Heather Richman For as long as I can remember, I have expressed myself through artwork. After many years of experimenting with various media, I have discovered that glass, as an artistic medium, best expresses my personal vision at this time. I love the qualities of glass. Hard, sharp glass is cut, ground and fired to become smooth and [...]

Carolina McCall I am a painter, celebrating the rich colors and patterns of indigenous peoples with my vividly colored oil paintings I have always drawn and painted, and I remain enthralled by the act of painting itself, moving sensuous color around, creating space, form and visual excitement. I work mostly in oils. I received a Bachelor of Fine [...]

M.E. “Mike” Bailey Mike attended Mission Hill Jr. High and Santa Cruz High School. He is a graduate of San Jose State in Engineering and Business. He pursued a marketing career with a number of different technology companies across the country. Mike began painting in 1988 as a “kitchen table hobby” to relieve stress. He discovered in that [...]

Laura Oneto My name is Laura Jane Oneto, I am from Santa Cruz, California. Throughout all my education I have lived next to the ocean, which has expanded my curiosity for all the creatures living in it, and the interesting things that come out of it. I studied all sorts of different art mediums/Visual Public Art at CSU Monterey Bay and [...]

Susana Arias Susana Arias 2523 A Mission St. * Santa Cruz, California susanaariasarts@gmail.com * 831.423.7910 * www.susanaarias.com Susana Arias was born in Panama City, Panama. She lives in Santa Cruz, California since 1978. One Person Exhibitions 2011 “Sculptures and Paintings – Galeria Habitante – Panama City, Panama 2007 “Nidos de Oropendula, Caballos y Otros Temas” – [...]

Marge Hansen Bisogno Tutti ‘Bisogno’ is Italian for ‘I need’ or ‘to want for something’ and ‘Tutti’ means ‘everything’. This phrase truly describes my passion for designing and creating unique, beautiful and functional things. For more than 30 years, I have needed to sew…everything! All types of fashion and home decor fabrics, neoprene, Nomax for firefighters, and, especially, leather have been [...]

Michael Singer My photography seeks to capture the beauty of both the natural and built worlds. I work in both the realistic and abstract, often drawing on the inherent line and form of a subject to meld the two. My latest series is a return to my photographic roots, using black and white imagery and focusing on [...]

Phoenix Hello!, my name is Phoenix, and am known as Phoenix, The Moody Artist. Phoenix is not moody or brooding, rather The Moody Artist is about creating ‘moods’. The use of bright colors with a sense of wind blowing them across the canvas is the ‘mood’ created. I love creating a moving experience through painting. Much [...]

Evelyn Drew Evelyn Jenkins Drew is a fifth generation California artist. She studied at San Jose State University in California, receiving a bachelors’ degree in art in 1980. Evelyn paints bright and colorful “beachy” scenes with turquoise water, banana trees and palms that evoke the warmth of the tropical breezes of the Caribbean, California, Hawaii, and Mexico. [...]

Ann Baldwin May Ann Baldwin May Artist’s Statement Self Taught Quilt Artist Fabric has been a major part of my life for a long time. The path from making and designing clothes, to the fabrication of quilts and on to art quilts seems the most natural progression for me. Art quilts free me to choose a [...]

Scott E. Linnenkohl Scott E. Linnenkohl is a Santa cruz, Ca based photographer who has been capturing Landscape shots since 1977. His passion for photography began as a hobby. He is very much in demand these days – his creative visions and unique outlook offer a fresh perspective on this type of work. He has been Published in [...]