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Master Solo Sculptors

The grains of sand meet up with a single artist to create a mastery in sand sculptures. You will stand in awe of what these masters of the art of sandcastle sculpting will create right in front of your eyes. They know what they want, they know how to do it, and they build a masterpiece on the shore.

Joaquin Cortez

Joaquin Cortez, a lifelong visual artist from North Texas, with a background in traditional art mediums also studied computer animation at the art institute of dallas before he found his true artistic calling during a fateful beach vacation in July 2014. It was there that he…

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Nikolai Torkhov

  Born in Moscow on March 6, 1981. From 2006 to 2012 he studied at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts (faculty of sculpture) Course professor Pereyaslavets M.V. The diploma work “Sniper” was awarded a…

Nikolai Torkhov

Ilya Filimontsev

After studying at the art college in Moscow I worked as a jeweler/goldsmith designing . While working as a jeweler I started making snow, ice and sand sculptures and found I enjoyed the combination of traveling and sculpting.

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Scott Dodson

Scott Dodson is an award-winning sand sculptor and live performance artist known for creating large-scale, highly detailed sand creations that blend imagination, storytelling, and architectural precision. Based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and working internationally, Scott has…

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Marie-Line Gagne

Marie-Line Gagne is an artist fueled by boundless creativity and a love for the whimsical wonders of nature. Since 2017, she's been carving her path, quite literally, in ice, snow, wood and sand, transforming dirty logs, frozen landscapes and sandy beach shores into vibrant…

Marie-Line Gagne

Damon Langlois

Damon Langlois is a five-time world championship sand sculpting winner, Designer of the tallest sand castle in 2015, creator of Liberty Crumbling, winner of Texas SandFest in 2019, and the most shared sand sculpture on the internet. He is also the author of the book Stories In…

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Bruce Peck

Bruce Peck was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.  It only took one year of studying architecture to scare him far, far away from the arts, into a lifelong career as a CPA. That career took him all over the U.S. and Canada and kept the left side of his brain on…

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Wade Lapp

Wade Lapp's artistic journey from pumpkin carving to professional sand sculpting, wood carving, and ice sculpting showcases his diverse skills and dedication over the past 13 years. Winning multiple competitions on a West Coast sand sculpting team and earning awards in…

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Benjamin Probanza

Benjamin Probanza, 1963. In 1988 he began modeling with sand and in 1997 he was invited to the first international Sand Sculpture Competition, he won the 2nd prize and from then on he competed and collaborated in countless countries around the world, winning many awards....China…

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