Children are entranced by Nad Greene's installation titled "Vanity Infinitum" Saturday evening during the annual Glow, a festival of fire and light." — Tarmo Hannula/The Pajaronian

SANTA CRUZ — The night sky was lit brightly with bolts of flames and electric lights Saturday evening during the annual Glow event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

The festival of fire and light drew a huge crowd to a closed-off Cooper Street, Abbott Square and surrounding grounds at the museum. Visitors were able to take in the grandeur of fire-breathing cannonades, glow sticks, lighted artworks, interactive digital arts, LED sculptures, and scads of hands-on activities for the entire family.

Flames lash into the night sky from a home-spun contraption to the delight of a large crowd. — Tarmo Hannula/The Pajaronian

Coupled with the show was a large colorful sculpture of balloons entitled, “Blue Sky, Same & Different,” created by South Korean artist HongSeok Goh. His work was comprised of a series of massive umbrella-shaped balloon canopies that filled the entire ceiling area of the museum’s atrium and a giant white unicorn made of white balloons.

A unicorn made of balloons takes over a stairwell at the Museum of Art and History. — Tarmo Hannula/The Pajaronian
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Tarmo Hannula has been the lead photographer with The Pajaronian newspaper in Watsonville since 1997. More recently Good Times & Press Banner. He also reports on a wide range of topics, including police, fire, environment, schools, the arts and events. A fifth generation Californian, Tarmo was born in the Mother Lode of the Sierra (Columbia) and has lived in Santa Cruz County since the late 1970s. He earned a BA from UC Santa Cruz and has traveled to 33 countries.

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