Boulder Creek teen designs KAZU water bottle

Recent San Lorenzo Valley High School graduate and Boulder Creek resident Cooper Smith will have his digital art featured on a limited-edition water bottle to be given as thank-you gifts during public radio station KAZU’s fall membership campaign.
The art depicts the ocean, forests, mountains, and fog of the Monterey Bay region, as well as the KAZU 90.3 logo. In order to get the water bottle donors must give at least $144 in one payment, or pledge $12 per month for a year, during the fund drive which runs from September 27 through October 5. Listeners and local businesses provide KAZU with 90 percet of its annual budget with the remaining 10 percent coming from a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Smith entered his digital art in KAZU’s water bottle design contest in July and was notified by early August that he had won. Along with a high school graphic arts class, Smith also took a digital arts class at Cabrillo College in the fall of 2015 and volunteered with the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz this summer to help them develop a new brochure.
Smith will be attending Eastern Washington University this fall to major in digital design, minor in creative writing, and hopefully, play on the ultimate frisbee team. Among many other talents, Smith is able to read and write in Elvish