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  2. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History - Wikipedia

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    The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ( MAH) is a nonprofit educational institution and museum founded in 1996 and located in Santa Cruz, California, at the downtown McPherson Center. Its mission is to ignite shared experiences and unexpected connections, using art and history to build a stronger, more connected community.

  3. Boulder Creek, California - Wikipedia

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    Boulder Creek (/ ˈ b ə ʊ l. d ə r ˈ k r iː k /) is a small rural mountain community in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains. It is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California, with a population of 5,429 as of the 2020 census. Throughout its history, Boulder Creek has been home to a logging town and a resort community, as ...

  4. Cueva de las Manos - Wikipedia

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    Cueva de las Manos. /  47.15583°S 70.65722°W  / -47.15583; -70.65722. Cueva de las Manos ( Spanish for Cave of the Hands or Cave of Hands) is a cave and complex of rock art sites in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km (101 mi) south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is named for the hundreds of paintings of hands stenciled, in ...

  5. East Bay Walls - Wikipedia

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    East Bay Walls. Coordinates: 38°12′20.32″N 122°57′57.67″W. One of many old stone walls found around the southern and eastern San Francisco Bay in California, this one near San Jose. The East Bay Walls, also known as the Berkeley Mystery Walls, are a misnomer, as many such walls can be found throughout the hills surrounding the San ...

  6. Black Lives Matter street mural (Santa Cruz, California)

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    The painting was done by 500 volunteers, and funding was acquired through fundraising, t-shirt sales, and donations. After two months, the project received unanimous approval from the Santa Cruz City Council, making Santa Cruz the first city in America to approve a Black Lives Matter Mural. The mural was painted September 2020.

  7. Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    72000256. Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park is a unit in the state park system of California, United States, preserving a small sandstone cave adorned with rock art attributed to the Chumash people. Adjoining the small community of Painted Cave, the site is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of California State Route 154 and 11 miles ...

  8. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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    Many times posts were temporarily cemented into the walls to support catwalks. When the wall was completed, the posts were removed and the voids filled with adobe, or were sometimes sawed off flush with the surface of the wall. A look inside the reconstructed (half-size) chapel at Mission Santa Cruz in December 2004. Note the exposed wood beams ...

  9. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    Cave painting. Cueva de las Manos, Perito Moreno, Argentina. The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD; [ a] stenciled, mostly left hands are shown. [ 3][ 4] In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings ), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.