Read about local nature photographer and Santa Cruz Art League member Bruce Leventhal’s artistic journey. Interview by SCAL volunteer Gavin Kennedy.

This month, SCAL Volunteer Gavin Kennedy sat down with Liz Crain, a Santa Cruz–based artist whose creative journey has traveled through collage, mosaics, and ceramics before landing—at least for now—on painting.

Meet the newest member of the SCAL teaching artist team! Julia van der Wyk is a local pen and ink artist with a degree in Printmaking and Painting from UCSC.

Board President Terri Steinmann reflects on everything that’s happened at SCAL in 2025

A free worksheet on pricing your artwork, along with a little story on how we got it!

Announcing the award recipients for our nationwide photography exhibition.

These are some of my earliest art memories.

I first remember taking art classes at Calvary Episcopal Church in their Sunday school room when I was eight. This was before the Santa Cruz Art League had a building on Broadway in 1954…

The origin of my pen and ink drawing, "The Dancing Tree", comes from a short story I wrote of the same name about a captive tree who wakes up to another way of moving in the world.