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First Friday is a monthly art tour in downtown Santa Cruz.

Presenting Ercilia Medeiros, Mixed Media Painter – January – February 2025

Ercilia Medeiros is an Azorean-American mixed media painter in Santa Cruz County, California. With ancestry from the Portuguese Azores Islands, Ercilia was raised in California with an upbringing inextricably shaped by the deep traditional folklore of her parents’ culture and the unparalleled natural landscapes of the Central Coast and Northern California.

Ercilia is interested in the ways the natural environment influences identity, invokes ancestral knowledge, and shapes individual spirituality. Ercilia’s idea of heaven is the coastal terraces and pocket beaches north of Santa Cruz.

Originally a watercolorist stretching the boundaries of the medium with rich, saturated colors and layered details, Ercilia has expanded her work into acrylic paintings on canvas.

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