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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.

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

Benoit Durtherage

Before I stepped into the sand sculpting world, I was a Chef in France and trough the world, working in the field of great gastronomy. By surprise, I met sand sculpting and started as a helper to Karen Fradlich in France. From there, things moved quickly and 20 years later…

Benoit Durtherage

Todd Pangborn

Driven by a need to desire and create, Todd turned that need into a mechanical design and Engineering career spanning over 40 years. After that need was satisfied, he turned his attention to the desire. The desire, coupled with a restlessness, turned into a 17 year long sand…

Todd Pangborn

Karen Fralich

Karen was introduced to sand sculpture while working in a pottery studio in 1994 and immediately became addicted. 30 years later, the love affair continues! Although she has no formal art training, her passion, curiosity and many incredible mentors lead her to embrace this…

Karen Fralich

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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Amanda Bolduc

Born and raised in beautiful Maine, Amanda received a degree in Psychology from Univ. of Maine, Farmington while working for the Maine Army National Guard. After graduation, she worked in the field of H.R. until 9-11 and decided to make the Army her full-time job…

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Isabelle Gasse

Isabelle Gasse was nudged into finding her artistic destiny at the tender age of 16, thanks to an art teacher that encouraged her to compete in a local amateur snow sculpting event in Québec Canada, her hometown.  A fast-rising professional in the snowy and icy art…

A woman wearing a baseball cap and a flannel shirt holds up a shovel like a jousting weapon, smiling at the camera in front of a half-carved pile of sand.