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Mary and Harry Blanchard Sculpture Garden
Permanent Exhibit The Mary and Harry Blanchard Sculpture Garden is a new exhibition space designed to showcase outdoor sculpture from the Museum’s permanent collection. The rooftop gallery is also an...
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History Gallery
Long-term exhibit; History Gallery 2nd Floor. Who makes history? This gallery shares stories of people who made history here in Santa Cruz County. Farmworkers and fishermen. Street performers and...
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Moment of Transcendence, 2015
Danielle Peters Paper Installation What moment transformed your life? Danielle asked her Boys and Girls Club students and MAH visitors at 3rd Friday: Beyond Borders to answer this question through...
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Shuffle Show: Henrietta Shore
2nd floor landing Shuffle Shows are curated by the community. Guest curators select artworks from the museum’s collection to create temporary exhibitions. About the work “To be true to nature one must...
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Wild Mushrooms & Functional Fungi: December 4th, 2015 – March 20th, 2016
3rd Floor Art Forum Zeke Smith Mushrooms: good on pizza, sometimes psychedelic, and also the world’s oldest and most uncelebrated tool. See how mushrooms push fungal forms: as bricks, as environmental...
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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26th, 2016 –...
The Cultivators, 2000, Samuel Dunson, Oil on Canvas 2nd floor Solari Gallery Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts. Spanning 400 years of history, the...
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To Tell You Who I Am: March 4, 2016
1st Floor Lezin Gallery Nerd. Tomboy. Overachiever. Feminine. Criminal. We have all been categorized. Some of them are true. Some aren’t. Some are flattering. Others are dangerous. No matter what they...
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UnLandscape: April 1st- July 24th, 2016
3rd floor Art Forum You’ve seen Santa Cruz sunsets 100 times. Imagine pulling one apart. Sutranic, Jeremy Morgan That’s what Jeremy Morgan and Tra Bouscaren do in UnLandscape. Morgan is a landscape...
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Art Works: June 1st- September 25th, 2016
Carmina Eliason, ReMexico 2nd floor Solari Gallery Take a step into a practicing artist’s studio. Create work with puppetmakers, composers, embroiderers, and nestbuilders. This summer, eleven artists...
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Screaming Hand: August 5, 2016- March 26, 2017
3rd floor, Art Forum Celebrate 30 years of the Screaming Hand igniting youth and skateboard culture. The iconic Screaming Hand image turns 30 this year. Explore original art by Phillips and 200 other...
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Chamber of Heart and Mystery : opens Sept 2, 2016
An Imaginarium for all ages The Chamber of Heart and Mystery invites you to explore the mysteries surrounding the human heart. Staged as a fictional study for Dr. Cora X. Crux, renowned explorer of...
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Santa Cruz Collects 2016: October 7, 2016- February 19, 2017
2nd floor Solari Gallery Collections aren’t just something we do. They tell stories about who we are. Explore personal items from curious collectors all over Santa Cruz County. Learn about people in...
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October: Oceanic Scales
Oceanic Scales by Gene A. Felice II & Jennifer Parker with support from the OpenLab Research Center at UCSC and the Coaction Lab at the University of Maine. October 3, 2016 – October 23, 2016 in...
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Mary and Harry Blanchard Sculpture Garden
Permanent Exhibit The Mary and Harry Blanchard Sculpture Garden is a new exhibition space designed to showcase outdoor sculpture from the Museum’s permanent collection. The rooftop gallery is also an...
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History Gallery
Long-term exhibit; History Gallery 2nd Floor. Who makes history? This gallery shares stories of people who made history here in Santa Cruz County. Farmworkers and fishermen. Street performers and...
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Santa Cruz Collects 2016: October 7, 2016- February 19, 2017
2nd floor Solari Gallery Collections aren’t just something we do. They tell stories about who we are. Explore personal items from curious collectors all over Santa Cruz County. Learn about people in...
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Screaming Hand: August 5, 2016- March 26, 2017
3rd floor, Art Forum Celebrate 30 years of the Screaming Hand igniting youth and skateboard culture. The iconic Screaming Hand image turns 30 this year. Explore original art by Phillips and 200 other...
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Toy Trains 2016: December 16th-December 31st
Experience a mini-universe of model trains that delight the young and young at heart. Celebrate the opening of Toy Trains on 3rd Friday: Winterpalooza on December 16th from 5-8pm alongside all-ages art...
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Vital Current – Seeking the San Lorenzo by Camille Utterback
Vital Current – Seeking the San Lorenzo Internationally acclaimed artist Camille Utterback is collaborating with MAH to create a site-specific artwork for the MAH lobby. The project is funded by a...
View ArticleMovements for Change: Bob Fitch Photographs
New History Gallery Pod “I’m not a professional photographer, I’m a political organizer. I happen to use the camera to tell the story of the work I do.” – Bob Fitch Watsonville’s own Bob Fitch began...
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