Plaques

Santa Cruz Chinatown Dragon Gate with Plaques and Poem, Front St., Santa Cruz, 2021

Bronze plaques, 14″ x 18″ with Stainless Steel red powder-coated Title and Poems, Bronze Lanterns, 2021

Santa Cruz Surf Club Monument

Bronze, 22″ x 24″, Cowell’s Beach Entrance Ramp, near Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, 2019

This plaque commemorates the original 27 members of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club, and their Clubhouse and Board Storage Shed, located here in the 1930’s-40’s, establishing Santa Cruz as the center of surfing in Northern California.  The last two remaining original members, Bob Rittenhouse and Harry Mayo, can be seen in the top right photo.  The S.C. Surfing Club also commissioned the Surfer Statue on West Cliff Drive, by Thomas Marsh and Brian Curtis, dedicated in 1992.

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School ‘Acorn’ Donor Plaques, 2019

Designed and installed 65 bronze ‘Acorn’ Plaques naming donors to the new playground renovations at Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, Santa Cruz.   

Bargetto Winery 85th Anniversary 30” Plaque, with Coat of Arms and Gold Medal, 2019

Compass Rose

Bronze, 16′ x 16′, New Boardwalk Grand Entrance and Plaza, Santa Cruz, CA, 2017

Sunrise Club Rotary International plaque, 2016

Bronze Rotary Symbol created, cast and installed on a granite boulder to mark the dedication of a pump track for bicyclists. 

Trojan Mascot

Bronze, 40″ x 40″, Raymond J. Fisher Middle School, Los Gatos, CA, 2013

Loof Carousel 100th Anniversary National Historic Landmark

Bronze, variable dimensions, Santa Cruz Boardwalk, 2011

Monument for Three Hawai’ian Princes

Bronze Plaques on Brick Pedestal, 56″ x 46″, Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, Lighthouse Point,  2010

This commission included designing this pedestal in front of the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum to display the large plaque seen here, depicting three Hawai’ian Princes, along with three other bronze elements by Sean M. Monaghan.  The large central plaque was a surprise gift to the City of Santa Cruz from Hawai’ians in 2010.  In 1885, Hawai’i was a sovereign nation and the Princes, nephews to H.M. Queen Kapi’Olani’, were attending Military School in San Mateo.  They spent that summer in Santa Cruz, and had large redwood surfboards made. They gave a demonstration of the Royal Hawai’ian sport of surfing at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, the first surfing ever recorded on the U.S. mainland.  The other bronze aspect of the commission was creating the two round bronze plaques on either side, and the bronze Hawai’ian Island chain on the backside of the pedestal, all by Sean M. Monaghan.  The pedestal was built by Tom Ralston Concrete, using brick stored beneath the Lighthouse.

Soquel Avenue Covered Bridge

Bronze, 12″ x16″, Soquel Avenue at River Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 1999

In 1874 a covered bridge was constructed on this site.  At 530 feet, it was one of the state’s longest covered bridges.  It was replaced by a concrete bridge in 1921.  The bridge was damaged by floods in 1982 and reconstructed in 1999.  (Bridges were covered to calm reluctant horses passing high over the water.)

Santa Cruz Sister Cities

Five Bronze Plaques, 14″ Dia., Santa Cruz Downtown Post Office, Front Street, 1997

President Eisenhower formally initiated the U.S. Sister Cities Program in the 1956 to encourage world peace through understanding.  Santa Cruz has currently has five Sister Cities: Alushta, Ukraine; Jinotepe, Nicaragua; Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela; Sestri Levante, Italy; and Shingu, Japan.

Santa Cruz City Hall Renovation, 2002;  West Cliff Drive Howe Truss Bridge, 2000 

Judge Thomas Black

Bronze, 12″ x 20″, Santa Cruz County Courthouse, 1997

Donatello’s Gelato Entrance, 1988

Donatello’s Gelato, 713 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, Bronze and Marble, 1988