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9 Murals In Santa Cruz You Must See

This piece is utterly terrific. If you like things that moo just as much as I do, you would appreciate how cute this piece is. If you go near River Street past Highway… Continue reading →

RIP Jack O’Neill, My interview with Jack in 2013. What a great guy and such a contribution to the world!

Designation of his original Surf Shop as a California Historical Point of Interest. The effort to establish this location as a California Point of Historical Interest was spearheaded by Councilmember David Terrazas with… Continue reading →

Video of the building of the 40′ Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter character, alongside all the other fictional beings, first appears in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In it, the Hatter explains to Alice that he and the March… Continue reading →

40′ Mad Hatter Sculpture for “Anne & Mark’s Art Party”

The making of a 30′ sculpture. “you have no new messages”

“You Have No New Messages” Driving up River Street past Highway 1, you may have taken note of what appears to be a double-decker cow. The 30-foot colorful wooden sculpture is the work… Continue reading →

Watsonville Poster on the cover of the Goodtimes

  “Polishing a Jewel” Article as published in the Goodtimes Meet the players behind the multi-faceted push to reshape Watsonville’s downtown    Like a giant rousing itself from a deep slumber, downtown Watsonville… Continue reading →

“GoodTimes: arts and entertainment weekly – The untold story of how Kirby Scudder’s cow art won the battle for the Tannery.

It’s good to have read about Kirby in “How Now Art Cow”. Kirby was key in the process of opening the Tannery Art Space Lofts in the beginning. Because of people like him,… Continue reading →

23′ Coho Salmon sculpture

The team in front of my 23′ Coho Salmon installed on the Soquel Bridge for “Ebb & Flow”. The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project celebrates and enlivens the San Lorenzo River and the… Continue reading →

DIY: Maps are powerful tools for deciphering an increasingly inter-linked world – by Tina Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

Maps help fulfill “the need to visualize our little lives in the context of a grander scale.” — Ken Jennings Before I take a trip to an unfamiliar place, I go to AAA… Continue reading →

My Documentary Film “Inspired by California” A look at, despite the State’s problems, why so many people stay and love California.

Inspired By California a “Documentary Film and Social Media Project” Inspired By California is a year long documentary film project (May 2010 – May 2011) that asks Californians what inspires them about California

The Revival Of Sculpture Racing In Cambridge

How great is this. The kinetic sculpture race that myself and artist Geoff Koetsch started in 1987 and took around the world for 11 years is back. Cambridge resident Christian Herold asked us if… Continue reading →

My interview with Jack O’Neill, surfer legend and wetsuit pioneer

The location of Jack O’Neill’s original Santa Cruz surf shop site was recently designated a historical point of interest. Watch an interview w/ Kirby Scudder – at the dedication with Jack O’Neil on KUSP

  • California Poster Exhibit

  • California Poster Exhibit

  • California Poster Exhibit

  • Cow Interior Design Magazine.

    Cow sculpture, commissioned by Rebecca's Cafe in 'Interior Design Magazine' Summer edition. In the summer of 2012 Interior Design Magazine hired renowned Architectural photographer Art Gray to spend 3 days documenting the newly renovated Tannery Arts Center for the summer edition. Here is my interview with Art Gray. Art shot a picture of my recently installed cow head sculpture at the Tannery cafe.

  • Visionaries

  • 40′ Mad Hatter Sculpture

    Kirby Scudder Graphic Artist Santa Cruz, CA

    40' "Mad Hatter" Santa Clara Fairgrounds

  • Night Light

    Kirby Scudder Graphic Artist Santa Cruz, CA
  • Life Size Elephant Lamp

    Life size Elephant Lantern. Denver Zoo

  • One Point Perspective

  • The Palo Alto Poster, Puzzle

    Kirby Scudder Graphic Artist Santa Cruz, CA
  • ‘The Cruz’ book. A look inside the creative force that is Santa Cruz, CA. 200 Pages

    Buy it now! $22

    A Northern California Coastal Community that became one of the Nation’s important creative meccas. A look at the people who made that happen and why. In my recent book 'The Cruz' profiles the artists and creative thought leaders that have shaped the artistic direction of this community for years to come.

  • “Rabbits that don’t fit in” Paintings

  • CowHaus

  • 27′ Girl

  • Gail Rich Award. Photo by Shmuel Thaler. A great honor to be amongst the creatives in Santa Cruz.

    Artist, collaborator, salesman, curator, idea man, hustler, fixer, midwife to the very scene that inspires all those Keep Santa Cruz Weird’ bumper stickers: You can call Kirby Scudder all those things and more. A refugee of the 1990s dot-com bust, Kirby has lived a dozen lifetimes since moving to Santa Cruz in 2003. He was the artist who created the enormous papier-mache cows in the early days of the Salz Tannery art project, at the same time, opening art galleries in several downtown spaces in an effort to create a welcoming environment for edgy visual arts. He set up spotlights along West Cliff Drive as a commemoration to the ideal of world peace. He established the First Friday Art Tour, a prominent event on the local arts calendar, and curated shows at the Attic, the Mill Gallery and the Dead Cow Gallery. As the resident visionary at the Dead Cow and the director of the Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art, Kirby has also become the symbol of the emerging Tannery Arts Center and worked closely with the city to create a vibrant Santa Cruz scene, one crazy project at a time. Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel