Stories from the Epicenter

At the thirtieth anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, there was a high interest in commemorating the event, and a variety of cultural institutions in both Santa Cruz and Watsonville took on the challenge of staging a number of engaging exhibitions and events to help the community mark this occasion. One of the more fascinating of these was an exhibition called Art and Healing put on by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History that explored the response of local artists to the earthquake. The MAH's Marla Novo and Gabriel Kittle-Cervine interviewed two of those artists—Robin Kandel and Alison Woolpert—both of whom also helped organize the Art and Healing exhibit.