Photos: Sand Arts brightens a gloomy day
Photos by Melissa Brown and Katherine Rountree
Despite the overcast skies and forecast for rain, hundreds turned out for SCAD’s 2014 Sand Arts Festival. Participants competed in five major categories and three minor categories to win prizes.
Taking place at Tybee Island’s North Beach, the Sand Arts Festival started up at 10 a.m.
Participants lined up as faculty and staff checked them into the festival.
Chris Williams, a professor in the foundations department, helps Camille Myhre and Dave Wideman, both fourth-year industrial design students, construct their bee hive sand sculpture. Also shown are Chris Cane, an industrial design graduate student, and Mariel Gardian, a fourth-year jewelry student.
Fourth-year visual effects students Adrian Timoco and Gian Lombardi use water to harden the sand and make it more malleable. They also used boxes to further compress the sand.
Sand flies through the air as participants hurry to complete their sand creations.
Two students set up a wind sculpture made out of metal.
After compressing and hardening the sand, participants sculpted it to look like a block of ice.
While free-styling your design is acceptable, most teams come with a draw out idea of what they want to create.
While hosted by SCAD on Tybee Island, the Sand Arts Festival is open to the public for anyone to walk through and admire.
Students work on a dragon themed sand sculpture.
Students carefully work at their reliefs to create a realistic tentacle effect.
Paula Hoffman and Matt Toole, professors in the foundation studies department, create a Poetter Hall sand castle.
A sloth themed piece emerges from the sand.
Foundation students and sculpting professor Chris Nitsche announces the winners.
