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welcome to Arts in ActionAppreciating art and raising funds

The current president of Rotary International, Kalyan Banerjee, recently said, “I will then ask you to search within yourselves, to understand that all of us, every-where, have the same dreams, the same hopes, the same aspirations, and similar dilemmas.

“When we understand, and truly feel, that other’s needs are the same as our own, we begin to under-stand how important (being a Rotarian is).”

Nor’Wester Rotary is a club of men and women who believe that by giving back to the community and helping others in need we enrich many lives and help build a better community for all.

Arts in Action is our annual summer street fair and art event. It is our way of bringing art appreciation and a great family event to our area. It is also one of the ways that we fund our scholarship program and raise funds to pay for local projects like the mural restorations and international projects such as our efforts to help an indigenous tribe in Ethiopia survive.

Thank you for your support. It allows us to do what we do. We hope you will enjoy the art, live demonstrations, music, food, car shows

and the international master sand sculpting and that you and your family will find your lives a bit richer for the experience.

If you would like to know more about our club and what you could do to help your community by becoming a Rotarian, we encourage you to talk with one of us at the event.

“Service Above Self” is not only the Rotary motto, it is a very rewarding way to live. We’ll see you at Arts in Action!

— Grant Meiner Nor’wester Rotary President, 2011-2012

Festival detailsLocation: Arts in Action is held in Port Angeles, Wash., overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The festival grounds are located at the north end of Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue and include City Pier and Hollywood Beach.

How to get here: Take U.S. Highway 101 into Port Angeles. As you drive into downtown Port Angeles, you’ll see the waterfront, Red Lion Hotel (221 N. Lincoln St.) and Gateway Center. Free and paid parking can be found throughout the downtown area.

Hours: • Friday, July 22 (2 p.m. – 8 p.m.)• Saturday, July 23 (10 a.m. – 8 p.m.)• Sunday, July 24 (11 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

Cost: Arts in Action is a free event. Admission to the sand sculpture “gallery” to see the eight sculptures up close is $2 for adults, and free for children younger than 12.

What you’ll find: Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic competition, arts and crafts fair, food vendors, commercial vendors, car show with Porsches on Sunday, 3D anamorphic chalk art display, live music and a wine and beer garden.

The current president of Rotary International, Kalyan

World-class art built before your eyesWelcome to Arts in Action, Nor’Wester Rotary’s annual

summertime street fair! You will find over four dozen of this area’s top artisans and crafters proudly displaying their wares and giving demonstrations of their techniques.

We have also assembled some wonderful food purvey-ors and area musicians to delight your senses and your palate. And we are proud to announce that there is a new section of commercial vendors located in the Red Lion parking lot to showcase non-handcrafted items.

We are also very proud to have Ian Morris, the interna-tional sidewalk chalk artist, rejoining us this year to do a 3D drawing of what might be under the pier. Careful, you might fall in.

Concurrent with the street fair is the smallest and one of the highest rated sand sculpture events in the United States, the Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic.

At this world-class event, you will see complex and intricate art being cre-ated and be able to watch and marvel at the process.

Sand is a temporary and difficult medium to engage, and sculptors try to push the limits to see if they can take it one step further. Sometimes they suc-ceed and the results are awe inspiring. Sometimes the sand will not allow it and the result is a collapse. If that happens, they must re-create their piece.

Even with the talents of a world master, the unexpected can happen.So make your plans for a family-friendly event that will delight and astound

you. We’ll see you there!— Doc Reiss

Nor’wester Rotary/Arts in Action organizer

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For a full listing of all theHeritage Days Activities, visitwww.portangelesdowntown.comor call 360-457-9614

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Craft vendorsHudson River Inlay Wood inlay mirrors and artwork, tables

Zee-Glass Handmade glass floats, vases, sculpture

Bookhooks by Dani Beaded bookmarks, charms, zipper pulls

Rocky Barrick Paintings, drawings, original prints

Cherokee Beach Creations Beaded jewelry

Sheryl Baxter Hand crafted jewelry, chainmaille, silver wirework, pearls

Red Unique Wood Creations Wood peppermills, cribbage boards, cutting boards

Pearls by Nature Pearl jewelry

Cooper’s Gotta Have It Crystal glass nail files, hand painted

Pottery for the Birds Hand-thrown and sculpted pottery, bird, sealife

Aunt Billie’s Handmade chocolates, candies

Moments in Time & Design Handmade pot holders

Country Memories Soap Glycerin soaps

Chik & Jeanine Dodson Glassblowing, glass & rock wire wrapping, hermit crabs

Cindy Elstrom Functional and sculptural ceramics

Fresh Hats Hats, reversible, adjustable, washable

Crafts by Carolyn Jewelry, wire wrapped, sterling silver

Fusion Silver Jewelry, knots tied in silver, silver/gold chainmaille

Friedman Glassworks Hand-blown glass, conch shells

Blowing Sands Glass Hand-blown glass

Leo Gosselin Chapman stick touchboard soloist/artist

Nearly 50 hand-selected arts and crafts vendors will be at the Arts in Action Street Fair, located around the City Pier area. Many will hold demonstrations so you can see how they craft their wares.

Food and snack vendors will be located nearby.Commercial and nonprofit vendor booths will be set up in the parking

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Sue McGrew carves her sand sculpture during the 2009 Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic. The theme was “Wonders of the World” and her piece was a tribute toward motherhood.

The ninth annual Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic in Port Angeles is one of the top-rated competitions in North America and features some of the best international sand sculptors in the world.

This contest is also a World’s Qualifier and the first place winner is guaranteed a place at The World Championship of Sand Sculpting the following year.

The sculptors will have 22 hours from Thurs-day morning through Saturday afternoon to carve 10 cubic yards of sand into museum-quality works that reflect this year’s theme, “The Wonderful World of Sports.” Any sport — even a made up one — has the potential to be included.

Saturday evening, a panel of five judges will evaluate the finished sculptures, looking for how well the sand was used, the degree of difficulty of the techniques used, the adherence to the theme and the “Wow Factor.”

The Wow Factor is the immediate impression the piece creates when viewed, what emotional impact the piece has with the viewer.

The sculpture must also be completed in 360

degrees — all the way around — to qualify for judging.

This year’s contest will feature last year’s top three winners as well as three sculptors who have competed here before. The field will also include a world master sculptor from Latvia and the contest’s current Sand A.I.R. (Artist in Residence), Dan Belcher. (See artist bios on pages 6-8.)

Belcher won first place two years in a row in 2008 and 2009 and earned the right to return for two years on a stipend. He can only compete for People’s Choice and is not part of the general contest.

Admission to the sand sculpture gallery is $2 for adults and free for children younger than 12.

Day pass tickets will be available from the Nor’Wester Rotary booth and will allow unlim-ited access for the day purchased.

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The gallery will be open from Friday through Sunday during the street fair.

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Not all sand is the same. Regular beach sand granules are too round to allow sculptors to building anything very high. In Port Angeles, several semi-trucks deliver glacial till sand from Silverdale specifically for the event.

After the truckloads of sand are brought in, wooden forms are made according to the sculptors’ requested dimensions and the sand is scooped into the frame. Layer by layer, the sand level is built up, soaked with water and packed down. This process is repeated as several wooden forms are stacked pyramid style.

The compaction of the sand with water is key — a process sculptors call “pound up.” Packing the sand isn’t just a matter of stomping on it. For the Arts in Action contest, sculptors use a heavy duty, hydraulic mechanical tamper.

After the proper pound up, artists remove the wooden frames and begin to sculpt, carve and unleash their creativity.

After a sculpture is finished, it is sprayed with a mix of four parts water and one part Elmer’s glue to keep everything together. Wires at the top of the sand sculptures discourage birds from landing on them.

How do they build those things?


meet the master sculptorsDan Belcher

Since his first professional sand sculpture project in 1990, Dan Belcher has created numerous projects across the United States and throughout the world.

Having placed first at the Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic in both in 2008 and 2009, he returns this year as the Artist in Residence.

If a sculptor places first two years in a row, then that person returns the following year on a stipend and does not participate in the general judging. The artist is still eligible for the People’s Choice award.

He won the Sculptor’s Choice award in 2010 with his “Time Machine.”

Dan has 13 World Championships to his credit, including a record three Solo World Championships in a row, the 2006 Doubles Championship and nine Team Championships.

He is the only sculptor to have won all three contests, the only sculptor to win two championships in the same year, and the only sculptor to win two Sculptors’ Choice awards at the Tournament of Champions.

Dan has a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Kansas State University. He works in the architecture/engineer-ing field as an urban designer in his hometown of St. Louis, Mo.

who turn truckloads of sand into works of art

Carl JaraA participant since the first

Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic, Carl Jara placed first at the 2010 contest and also received the People’s Choice award with his sculpture of “Alien vs. Bender.”

He was the Arts in Action competi-tion’s first Artist in Residence — a title bestowed on those sculptors who win first place two years in a row.

Carl began sculpting sand in 1991, learning under the instruction of sand sculpting veteran Tom Mor-rison of Akron, Ohio.

After graduating from the Meyers School of Art at the Uni-versity of Akron, he set out to carve a name for himself in the sand sculpting world.

His first competition came in 1998 at the World Champion-ship in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., where he won a bronze medal in the solo category.

Carl holds nine World Championship medals, more than three dozen medals from other contests and has been fea-tured on Sand Blasters on the Travel Channel.

In addition to sculpting, he is the exhibits artisan/techni-cian at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Vern CooleyVern Cooley, an architect from Seattle,

started carving sand on the beach as a hobby in 1983.

He last competed in the Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic in 2008 and won the contest in 2007 with his circus-themed sculpture of clowns in a car titled “Not So Fast.”

He is captain of The Orbital Sanders sand sculpture team, which has been active on the sand sculpture circuit since 1985.

They have won more than 60 awards in competitions in Washington, Oregon, Califor-nia, Virginia and British Columbia.

Vern has also participated in solo sand sculpture competitions and done sand sculpt-ing exhibitions in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Virginia, Minnesota, Texas, British Columbia and Mexico.

He has also participated in snow sculpture competitions in Washington and China.

His other artistic interests include stained glass windows, watercolor painting, ink draw-ing, plaster sculpture and pumpkin carving.

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Sandis KondratsSandis Kondrats of Latvia is one of the few Baltic

sand and ice sculptors. Born during the Soviet Union, he began sculpting at the age of nine.

He discovered his passion for temporary art in 2004 and began to participate in international sand, ice and snow festivals all over Europe.

After years of rigorous training in the arts, he achieved a masters degree in sculpture at the Art Academy of Latvia in 2006.

As a freelance sand, ice and snow sculptor, he has participated at international sculpture festivals and contests in countries across the world.

Sandis and fellow Arts in Action sculptor Sue McGrew travel as team SANDISSUE and work on sand, ice and snow projects throughout Europe and Asia.

This is his first time participating in Arts in Action.

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Sue McGrewEight years ago, after

competing in a dragon boat race for the local maritime festival, Sue McGrew of Tacoma found herself in a sand pile next to a demo sculpture playing with much younger children.

The display sculptor, Bert Adams, noticed her enthusiasm and in-vited her to come back the next day and learn how to compact the sand like a pro.

A year later, the summer after her high school graduation, Sue landed her first commercial job in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

She has since carved multiple times in Europe, competed in the U.S. and Canada, and been on Travel Channel’s Sand Blasters, all while managing to graduate in 2008 from the University of Southern California.

Among her awards are second place at the Canadian Open Sand Sculpting Competition in Parksville, B.C., and first place at the North American Sand Sculpting Championship in Virginia Beach, Va.

Her Star Wars sculpture “Luke and Leia” took second place at Arts in Action in 2010.

She and fellow Arts in Action sculptor Sandis Kondrats make up the sculpting team SANDISSUE.

Damon FarmerDamon Farmer is a Kentuckian who paints, animates, designs

and builds theatrical sets, creates public art projects and under-takes other creative endeavors, but his favorite medium is sand.

He has won the World Solo Championship, the North American Solo Championship, the American Championship and several other competitions.

He took home third place at the 2010 Win-dermere Sand Sculpture Classic with “Radio Visions.” His works tend to be crowd favor-ites — he took home the People’s Choice award in 2008 and 2009.

Damon has been sculpting sand since January 1975 during what he calls “his first adult visit to a beach” when he discovered the creative potential of shaping sand.

Creating sand sculptures is also the main focus of his company, Shadetree Studio.

David BillingsDavid Billings returns to Arts in Action after having

last competed here in 2003.He owns and operates Sandemons — Sand Sculpture

Company. It was founded in 1991 originally as a sand sculpting team that competed at North American sand sculpture competitions.

Sandemons has won numerous awards at sand sculpt-ing events around the globe over the past 19 years.

After a number of years competing on the competi-tion circuit, the team began creating sand sculptures for corporate clients nationally and internationally.

Sandemons creates world class sculptures indoors and outdoors for corporate clients, shopping centers and major events.

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Karen FralichKaren Fralich is a professional

sand sculptor from Canada with 17 years experience.

She won first place and the People’s Choice award at Arts in Action in 2006 with her barnyard-themed sculpture titled “Horsin’ Around.”

She began her sculpting career in a pottery studio in Guelph, Ontario, in 1983.

In 1994, a mutual friend intro-duced her to a professional sand sculptor.

She spent the next four years learning the rudiments of sand sculpture while still working full time in the service industry.

In 1998, Karen entered her first international contest and by 2001 she was working full time as a freelance sculptor.

Her passion for sculpture led her to a career in sand.She is a two-time world champion and a two-time North American

champion of sand sculpture.

Chalk art returns to festivalIan Morris

Ian Morris, a sidewalk artist from Victoria, B.C., returns to Arts in Action after a year’s absence to create a 3D “anamorphic chalk art” illustration.

This type of art is created on pavement and uses angles and perspective to create the illusion of three dimensions. The art can appear amazingly realistic and people often pose with the image as if they are interacting with the scene.

In 2009, Ian created an image of an orca whale leaping from the water. Many onlookers captured photographs of friends and family “balancing” on the whale’s nose.

This year, he will go the other direction and depict a different perspective — looking below the sidewalk and into the ground.

The “underground” perspective can appear so realistic that sometimes people walk around the im-age, thinking there is really a hole they need to avoid.

Ian’s design will be located outside The Landing Mall along Railroad Avenue (in front of Smugglers’ Landing), close to the rest of the Arts in Action festivities.

Display sculpture at Windermere recognizes Olympic National Park

Master sculptor Charlie Beaulieu of Kingston returns to Port Angeles in a non-com-peting capacity to build the display sculpture that kicks off Arts in Action.

About a week before the festivities begin, Charlie, one of the top 10 sand sculptors in the world and an organizer of the event, usually constructs a sculpture that reflects the competition’s theme.

However, this year he will create a tribute to Olympic National Park and the Elwha Dam removal project.

Removal of the dams, which is the largest dam removal project in the nation, is part of the Elwha River Restoration Project that is intended to restore the Elwha River and its once-thriving salmon run. The topic had been one of the theme ideas submitted for this year’s sand sculpting competition.

Charlie’s sculpture will be constructed near the Windermere Real Estate office at 711 E. Front St., Port Angeles.

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About 30-35 of these beauties are expected to line the pier.

Stop by to see the different col-ors and styles.

Wine and beer gardenWhile alcohol is not allowed at

Hollywood Beach, the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St., will offer wine and beer service on its patio nearby.

Display sculptureIn addition to the eight sand

sculptures at Hollywood Beach and the one at the Port Angeles Windermere Real Estate Office, a small display sculpture will be constructed in front of the lobby to the Red Lion Hotel.

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