Artspace Tannery Lofts - In the News

"Santa Cruz Council to consider loan for Tannery partner: New media, arts center to be finished next month"
J.M. Brown
Mercury News, June 13, 2011
The City Council on Tuesday will consider making a loan from the Santa Cruz Redevelopment Agency to the company tasked with leasing 28 studios inside the Digital Media and Creative Arts Center at the Tannery expected to be completed next month. Read more...


"Subsudized arts campus in Santa Cruz celebrates first year"
Shanna McCord
Santa Cruz Sun Sentinel, June 4, 2010
Jonathan Chorn and Lisa Silas fell in love while studying figurative sculpture at Italy's Florence Academy of Art. The couple married, had a child and moved to Davenport with their young son Arlo to make a life with art. Read more...


"Articulations : Art Land adventures"
Elizabeth Limbach
Good Times Santa Cruz, November 4, 2009
One year ago, on a cold and drizzly November day, more than 100 artists and their families camped outside of the soon-to-be Tannery Arts Center with hopes of securing a residence. Today, nearly 230 people live in the 100 Tannery live/work units, where the household artists work on everything from painting to poetry, piano to ballet, and pottery to hip-hop. Read more....
 
"Tannery Arts Center lands $4.7 million federal grant for art studio development"
Austin Walsh
Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 23, 2009
The federal government gave the Santa Cruz redevelopment agency a $4.7 million grant Tuesday for the next phase of the Tannery Arts Center that officials hope will stimulate construction jobs and provide long-term high-tech opportunities. Read more ...

Wallace Baine, Baine Street: "What it's like to live at the Tannery"
Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 12, 2009
If creative energy looked like smoke, you wouldn't be able to see the Tannery Arts Center from Highway 1. Read more...
 
"Santa Cruz Tannery has coming out party"
Wallace Baine
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 6, 2009
They came, they saw, they wandered through the hallways in a daze. The Artspace Tannery Lofts, at the Tannery Arts Center, celebrated its grand opening Friday on the grounds that used to house the Salz Tannery. Read more...
 
"Grateful residents of the new Santa Cruz arts colony open their doors to the community"
Wallace Baine
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 4, 2009
Talk to almost anyone living at the Tannery Arts Center long enough and, eventually, they'll express a kind of bedazzled but delighted disbelief, a variation on "I can't believe this has actually happened." Read more...
 
"New Tannery Arts Center Houses City's Artists"
Michelle Fitzsimmons
City on a Hill Press, March 5, 2009
Bohemia will be alive and well in Santa Cruz once the vacancies at the brand-new Tannery Arts Center (TAC) are filled. Read more....
 
"After four years of anticipation, the first tenants move in at the Tannery Arts Center"
Wallace Baine
Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 1, 2009
It’s a new sheet of paper, a blank canvas, an empty vessel. But it won't remain that way for long. Download PDF...

"The future looks bright for Tannery Arts Project"
Genevieve Bookwalter
San Jose Mercury News, March 1, 2009
On time and on budget.That's the verdict for Phase 1 of the new Tannery Arts Center, which opened its doors this week for artists moving into 100 new live-work apartments off Highway 9. Read more.... 
 
" 'Starving' Artists Get New Apartments In SC "
KSBW.com
A new affordable housing complex in Santa Cruz is the new dwelling spot for about 100 artists living on a fixed income. Read more and view video ...
 
"Tannery dwellings to open in February"
Genevieve Bookwalter
Santa Cruz Sentinel, December 31, 2008
About 100 county artists will have new homes come mid-February, when completion of live-work lofts at the new Tannery Arts Center is expected. Download PDF....