From the Coffers of Sand Art Championship

In 1989, a group of Sand Artists had formed a group in USA and called themselves Archiesand. Sand castles and cand sculptures are there forte. Soon the artgroup took the form of a movement as they started organising sand art festivals. in 2007 they won the US open Championship in Sand Art and since then aquired international prominence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugEij3_-vU&feature=fvsr

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=archisand

Read more on Archisand at http://www.sandcastlecentral.com/

and at http://sandscapes.com/

Sand Art is emerging as a great new form of in-expensive art meant for anybody with a passion for sculpting but do not have institutional support.