Inaugural winners Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw set the bar high at last year’s Creative Time Artist Sandcastle Competition in Rockaway Beach (photo by Derek Schultz)
Beach 86th St. boardwalk, Rockaway Beach
Friday, August 9, free, 12 noon
www.creativetime.org
Innovative arts organization Creative Time, which specializes in unique public art projects, is hosting its second annual Artist Sandcastle Competition, featuring ten artists molding magnificent works out of sand on Rockaway Beach. The festivities begin at 12 noon, with the participants beginning to craft their masterpieces at 2:00; this year’s competitors are David Brooks, Sebastian Errazuriz, Ghost of a Dream (Lauren Was & Adam Eckstrom), Jamie Isenstein, Natalie Jeremijenko, Esperanza Mayobre, Rachel Owens, Duke Riley, Christopher Robbins, and Marc Andre Robinson. After three hours, prizes will be handed out by an esteemed panel of judges, including collector Shelley Fox Aarons, designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia, MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach, curator and collector Dana Farouki, and 2012 inaugural champs Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw. Creative Time chief curator Nato Thompson will handle master of ceremonies duties. At 6:00, the after-party moves to the boardwalk, with such food vendors as Caracas, Citysticks, DiCosmo’s Italian Ice, the Big Banana, and Rockaway Taco and dancing in Rippers to music spun by DJ Lucas Walters.