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Welcome to the second annual Siesta Key Crystal Classic Siesta Beach is officially the No. 1 beach in the United States and is, once again, the host location of the Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting Competition. This year, the event also has been designated as the site of the World Sand Sculpting Competition Doubles Division.

The 2011 Crystal Classic boasts the participation of the best of the best in international sand sculpting. That’s quite an honor for this new artistic event.

We can all be proud of our beach and the hundreds of people responsible for bringing this event to Siesta Beach. Not only is it a wonderful way to enjoy our beautiful beach, but also the Crystal Classic supports Mote Marine Laboratory’s efforts to save sea turtles through conservation and research programs.

Twenty-four sculptors will

compete, and a dozen other professional sculptors will support their activities. In addition, hundreds of volunteers have worked for thousands of hours during the past year to ensure success.

Because the five-day festival runs through the Veterans Day weekend, Brian Wigelsworth, the inspiration for the Crystal Classic, has recreated the sculpture of the Iwo Jima flag-raising statue, using our crystal sand to honor the service of veterans of all the military branches.

We are grateful to all of our sponsors, donors and advertisers who have supported us, and we certainly thank you for attending the Second Annual Crystal Classic. Without the wonderful support of everyone involved, this great event could never take place.

Thanks to all. See you on the beach!

Kumar Mahadevan Chairman of the Board, Siesta Beach Festival Inc. President/CEO, Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Bob & Eileen Parkinson Co-chairs, Crystal Classic Organizing Committee Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting Competition Presented by Siesta Beach Festival, Inc. c/o 5118 Ocean Blvd.

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Letter from the Siesta Key

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esidents and visitors alike have long since known what now is garnering national acclaim: Siesta Key is the No. 1 beach in the United States. Our shores have enjoyed honorable mention over the years and now take top billing on the authoritative annual list published by the nation’s foremost beach expert Dr. Beach, aka Dr. Stephen Leatherman, director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University. It is an honor to host the world’s best sand sculptors on the World’s Finest, Whitest Sand™.

The Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce is proud to be affiliated with the Siesta Key Crystal Classic. From a spark in the mind of local sand sculptor and Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce member Brian Wigelsworth to a premier event on Florida’s Gulf Coast, it has been a pleasure to see the joy on the faces of everyone who enjoyed the event last year and anxiously await this year’s masterful display.

Most importantly, we wish to thank

all of those individuals and businesses that have come together in support of this event. Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce members have greatly exceeded expectations in support and sponsorship. That speaks directly to how invested our Chamber members are in this world-class event and the community at-large. Our members have opened the doors to their businesses and will provide meals for the sculptors, housing for our out-of-town guests, man hours to plan the event and monetary donations to keep the event a reality. We are thankful to all the businesses and individuals that have joined with us in time commitments and monetary support. As a founding sponsor, we are deeply aware of the importance each and every one of you plays in ensuring the ongoing success of this event.

Thanks to everyone for helping make this event a possibility and a success!

Kevin Cooper Executive Director Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce

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Maps Directions PARk AND RIDE

Because of the limited availability of public parking at the event site and the two-lane roads leading to it, it is strongly recommended that on Saturday and Sunday, attendees park at Phillippi Estate Park at 5500 S. Tamiami Trail (U.S. 41) and ride the comfortable, full-size bus coaches to and from the event area. The cost is $5 per parked vehicle.

Buses will operate between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

LIMITED RESERVED ON-SITE VIP PARKING A limited number of $5 four-day on-site VIP parking permits are available for purchase at www.crystalsand.org. NOTE: These permits are not available for purchase at the event site.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS From I-75 to Park & Ride at Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail: Exit at Clark Road (Exit 205). Clark Road becomes Stickney Point Road. Drive west 4.8 miles to South Tamiami Trail (U.S. 41). Drive north on Tamiami Trail for 1 mile to Phillippi Estate Park. Turn left at park entrance.

From I-75 to event site, 948 Beach Road (not recommended without reserved parking): Exit at Clark Road (Exit 205). Clark Road becomes Stickney Point Road). Drive west 5.8 miles to Midnight Pass Road. Drive north 1 mile on Midnight Pass Road. At stop light, continue onto Beach Road. Siesta Beach is about 1/4 mile on left.

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Master competition sculpting Shuttle operates between remote parking at Phillippi Estate Park and Siesta Beach [Last shuttle leaves Siesta at 5:30] Siesta Key Chamber Vendor Village** booths open Doug Walker (steel drums) at Media Tent Mote Marine Laboratory’s “Mote Mobile” exhibit, a sea-life touch tank, 1,200-gallon tropical fish tank and information “Quick Sand” Competition John Solazzo (Island Music) at Media Tent Free sand-sculpting demonstrations for all ages* Free sand-sculpting demonstrations for all ages* Tropical Avenue Band on Main Stage Free sand-sculpting demonstrations for all ages* “Quick Sand” Competition

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Master competition sculpting Shuttle operates between remote parking at Phillippi Estate Park and Siesta Beach [Last shuttle leaves Siesta at 5:30] Siesta Key Chamber Vendor Village** booths open Mote Marine Laboratory’s “Mote Mobile” exhibit, a sea-life touch tank, 1,200-gallon tropical fish tank and information The Porch Dogs on Main Stage Free sand-sculpting demonstrations for all ages* “Quick Sand” Competition Jim Morris and the Big Bamboo Band on Main Stage Free sand-sculpting demonstrations for all ages* “Quick Sand” Competition Flying Colors with John Gowdy. Paintings auctioned immediately after show.

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Sunday, Nov. 13 8 to 9 a.m.

8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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Registration for amateur sand-sculpting competition Shuttle operates between remote parking at Phillippi Estate Park and Siesta Beach (Last shuttle leaves Siesta at 5:30 p.m.)

Siesta Key Chamber Vendor Village** booths open Master competition sculpting Amateur sand-sculpting competition Mote Marine Laboratory’s “Mote Mobile” exhibit, a sea life touch tank, 1,200-gallon tropical fish tank and information Trio de Janeiro Free sand-sculpting demonstrations for all ages* “Quick Sand” Competition Innerwave on Main Stage Judging of master sculptor’s sculptures Judging of amateur sculptures by master sculptors Awards ceremony “Quick Sand” Championship Round

Monday, Nov. 14 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Open for sculpture viewing only.

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The World’s Finest, Whitest Sand beach expert and the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Coastal Research Center, judged the competition.

It’s clean, dazzling white and feels like confectioner’s sugar.

Why? It’s the quartz. A study of Siesta Key beach sand by Harvard University’s geology department found it consists of 99% pure quartz grains, ulti-

When it comes to white, powdery sand, nothing compares with Siesta Key. In fact, at the Great International Sand Challenge in 1987, the sand at Siesta Key’s Crescent Beach was rated “The World’s Finest, Whitest Sand,”™ beating more than 30 other entrants, including those from the Bahamas and Grand Cayman. Dr. David Aubrey, a

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mately derived from the southern Appalachians. Over millennia, rivers carried the sand grains into the Gulf of Mexico and south along Florida’s coast.

Those quartz grains are fine, without any coral or shell fragments, which results in sand with a soft, flour-like texture.

Quartz sand comes from igneous rock, the kind of rock that

once was molten. Quartz is a hard substance, graded as seven on a hardness scale of one to 10 (diamonds are rated as 10).

Minerals with a hardness grade of seven cannot be scratched with the point of a steel knife.

The most common such substance is granite.

The fine sand has passed through one or more of what geologists refer to as “eolian cycles.” Those are periods when the sand grains were blown about by the wind. Such cycles tend to smooth the sharp corners of the quartz grains and result in the somewhat angular grain structure of Crescent Beach sand.

Sand is pretty shifty stuff. No beach is static. All sand moves along the coastline because of wind, storms and ocean currents. The shifting dune is a common phenomenon in sandy areas. If the sand is eroding in one place, then it is building up elsewhere. Prevailing winds roll the surface sand from the bottom of the windward side of the dune over the top and down the leeward side. In time, the entire dune may be rolled for miles.

No one can calculate how many eons of time have passed since Siesta Key sand first ap-

peared from fragmented rock, but Siesta Key sand is quite old.

We know this not only because of the fine grains but also because other components of the original rock, such as feldspar, mica and other minerals, have almost completely disappeared, leaving only the extremely hard quartz.

Siesta Key’s beach has been recognized as the No. 1 beach in the U.S. by one of the world’s top experts, Dr. Stephen Leatherman (aka Dr. Beach) of the National Healthy Beaches Campaign, and qualifies as a Blue Wave Beach by the Clean Beaches Council. The Travel Channel ranks Siesta as one of the nation’s top-10 beaches.

So, now you know why Siesta Key sand is ranked tops in the world. It feels soft and cool to your bare feet — even in the strongest Florida sun — and that means great beach walking.

Sculptors love it, too, because it packs down firmly and smoothly, which makes for awesome sand sculptures at the island’s sand-sculpting contests.

No wonder so many beachlovers of all ages come to Siesta Key whenever they can. We look forward to seeing you at our beach soon!

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2011 CRYSTAL CLASSIC JUDGES Deborah Dart

Deborah Dart enjoys creating artwork and installations that make people smile. Her style has the simplicity of American primitive painters and the meticulous rendering of a technical illustrator. There is a stillness to her work, always a pleasantness and often a touch of sly humor.

She started exhibiting her work in 1973, and her drawings began appearing in The New Yorker magazine in 1975. Her paintings have been shown nationally.

Jack Dowd

Jack Dowd is a contemporary social realist, a connoisseur of American types, the boisterous, eccentric, innocently hilarious individuals who rarely become the subject of art. Dowd celebrates America’s idiosyncratic extended family in his ongoing series of life-sized sculpture — with affection, humor and satiric wit.

Dowd’s work has been shown across the U.S., and his sculpture is in corporate, public and private collections.

Tim Jaeger

Tim Jaeger studied Fine Art at the Ringling College of Art and Design and decided to remain in the resort coastal town of Sarasota after earning his degree.

Jaeger’s work is featured across the country, but he’s more than an artist. Jaeger is co-founder and president of new arts group sARTq and CEO of SarasotaVisualArt. com and works toward engaging the community and fostering new artistic partnerships.

Giovanni Lunardi

Matthew McLendon John Joseph Revisky

Giovanni Lunardi was born in 1937 in Parma, Italy.

He studied at Liceo Romagnosi, graduating with a geology degree.

Since his childhood, Lunardi was in love with photography and cinema.

After graduating, he started a new career along those lines. Lunardi’s photography has appeared in ELLE, Vogue, Marie Claire, Seventeen and others. Locally, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art utilizes Lunardi’s talents regularly.

Dr. Matthew McLendon is the associate curator of modern and contemporary art at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. He is an alumnus of Florida State University, where he received bachelor’s degrees in both art history and music. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

As curator at Ringling, he teaches graduate seminars for Florida State University.

Photographer John Joseph Revisky studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and later at the Art Institute in Seattle.

At 24, he left for Milan. Seven years later, a chance meeting with Gordon Thompson III, vice president of research, design and development at Nike led to his next dream job — nike.com.

Post-Nike, Revisky relocated to Miami, entering the world of editorial fashion.

Today, Revisky creates his images in mixed media.

NON-COMPETING MASTER SCULPTORS AND TEAM Bill Knight Event Director Florida, U.S.

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2011 COMPETING SCULPTORS Castelfranco Veneto, Brad Goll Texas, U.S. Treviso, Italy

Amazin’ Walter McDonald Texas, U.S.

JOOheng Tan Singapore

Karen Fralich Canada

Dan Belcher Missouri, U.S.

Bouke Atema Netherlands

Wilfred Steiger Netherlands

Edith van der Wetering Netherlands

Kirk Rademaker California, U.S.

Helena Bangert Netherlands

Damon Langlois Canada

Brian Turnbough Illinois, U.S.

Matt Long New York, U.S.

Ted Siebert Illinois, U.S.

Justin Gordon Massachusetts, U.S.

Rodrigo Ferreira Portugal

Lucinda Wierenga Texas, U.S.

Chris Guinto Florida, U.S.

Rusty Croft California, U.S.

Sandis Kondrats Lativia

Sue McGrew Washington, U.S.

Joris Kivitz Netherlands

Matt Deibert New Jersey, U.S.

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Crystal Classic will host World Championship Doubles Division The Siesta Key Crystal Classic is proud to host the World Championship of Sand Sculpting Doubles Division.

World Championship of Sand Sculpting Official Qualifying Contests Sand Sculpting. The organization’s goal is to have up to 15 official qualifying contests spread around the globe.

First-place winners at each qualifying contest will automatically secure a spot at the World Championship, including round-trip airfare and accommodations. Sculptors not able to attend one of these qualifiers will have an opportunity to submit an application for consideration.

Adapted from the World Championship of Sand Sculpting website, www. worldchampionshipofsandsculpting. com.

World Championship of Sand Sculpting

Suzanne Altamare Assistant Director

Suzanne Altamare began sculpting sand for a living in 1982 as an apprentice to her late husband, world renowned sand sculptor Marc Altamare (1952 to 2002). She works both in compacted and soft sand. She specializes in logos, antique motorcycles, coral reef, sea life and will carve anything except Mickey Mouse (have to draw the line somewhere). She also works in clay, plaster, cement, ink and paper, pencil and paper, and acrylic paint. In recent years, she has been working more in the supervision of logo piles, running sand contests and organizing sand contests.

At home, she is just a lowly cat slave, attempting to serve her furry masters to the best of her ability. She boogie boards whenever possible and waits for the shark bite that will cause Chris Guinto to bow to her forever.

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Copyright 2011 The World Championship of Sand Sculpting is a Sand Sculpture Events LLC Production. All rights reserved.

Charlie Beaulieu began sand sculpting 25 years ago on the beaches in Northwest Washington.

A homebuilder and designer by trade, he holds 12 World Championship titles, seven Guinness Book world records, American and Canadian National Championship titles and many others.

Beaulieu has appeared on the TV show “Sand Blasters” and has sculpted all over the world for many prestigious clients and celebrities. He is also known for his innovative and creative ideas — many stolen from other world-class sculptors.

Beaulieu is the director of the World Championship of Sand Sculpting.

He finds it a great honor to work for and represent the sand sculptors of the world.

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Currently, five contests in North America and four in Europe have signed on as official qualifying contests for the World Championship of

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Siesta Key Crystal Classic supports sea turtles For more than 30 years, Mote Marine Laboratory has been coordinating sea turtle conservation on 35 miles of Sarasota County shoreline. Since 1992, Mote has run the Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital, taking in sick and injured sea turtles from throughout the state, treating them and returning them to the wild.

Beaches are critical habitat to sea turtles, so it is fitting that the Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting competition supports programs at Mote designed to help these animals.

We thank you for coming today and supporting these efforts.

Five sea turtle species that call the Gulf of Mexico home — loggerhead, Kemp’s ridley, green, leatherback and hawksbill — and all are federally protected species listed as endangered or threatened.

At Mote, science-based studies of wild sea turtles form the basis for species conservation at the state and national level. Our rehabilitation efforts also are designed to help turtles’ struggling populations.

Sea Turtle Patrols

Each year, the Mote Sea Turtle Patrol — a team of scientists, interns and nearly 300 volunteers — monitors sea turtle nesting on 35 miles of beaches in Sarasota County.

In more than three decades, the patrol has: • Monitored 26,256 sea turtle nests on 35 miles of beach • Documented 23,444 false crawls (adult females that return to sea without nesting) • Protected 5,036 nests from predators • Tagged 3,827 nesting turtles • Protected 1,991,232 turtle eggs • Documented the births of 1,329,714 sea turtle hatchlings

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Sea Turtle Tagging and Tracking

Turtles migrate long distances from feeding grounds back to the beaches where they were born. Much can happen in-between.

• Mote studies show that loggerhead turtles migrate to nest every two to four years and have reproductive life spans measured in decades. Turtles are marked with external flipper tags and Passive Integrated Transponder tags, which provide information on the activity, distribution and movement of turtles on nesting beaches and helps in the assessment of suitable nesting habitats.

• Mote researchers also use satellite tags to track turtles as they migrate hundreds of miles at sea, showing where they spend their lives before and after nesting. By attaching satellite transmitters to follow the turtles’ migratory journeys, Mote evaluates potential threats nearby and far from nesting beaches.

Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital

Mote’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital has treated nearly 300 sick and injured turtles since it opened 1995. These efforts are crucial to maintaining wild sea turtle populations.

Mote is one of only three organizations in Florida that can treat the sickest sea turtles — those suffering from fibropapilloma tumors, which can affect turtles externally —growing on flippers and eyes — or internally, overtaking critical organs.

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About Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Founded in 1955, Mote is an independent nonprofit, 501(c)3 marine research organization based in Sarasota, with field stations in eastern Sarasota County, Charlotte Harbor and the Florida Keys. We are dedicated to today’s research for tomorrow’s oceans through the study of marine and estuarine ecosystems, through our public Mote Aquarium and through an education division that provides unique programs for all ages. Mote has seven centers for scientific research focusing on sharks, sea turtles and marine mammals, coral reefs, the study of toxins in the environment and their effect on human health, aquaculture, coastal ecology and fisheries enhancement. Showcasing this research is Mote Aquarium, open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Learn more at www.mote.org.

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SIESTA KEY HISTORY From a scrub-covered spit of sand to a community that swells to more than 20,000 in season, Siesta Key has changed dramatically but still has a special charm of its own.

The history of Siesta Key does not go far back in time, as histories go. Even the land is new, geologically speaking. Florida, including Siesta Key, is part of a large plateau, which lies submerged in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. In its present contour, it makes up the youngest land mass in the U.S. Human inhabitants put in an appearance about 1,000 years ago. The 10 known Indian mounds between Midnight Pass and the north end of the Key indicate that these people were hunters of shellfish and small game.

In addition to the members of the Timucua and Calusa tribes, occasional itinerant Cuban fishermen erected temporary dwellings along

the water’s edge.

In the late 1700s, pirates ruled the Gulf of Mexico; slave-running and rum-running flourished. The situation became so serious that in 1918, the United States government sent an anti-pirate squadron to protect the Gulf Coast territory.

It wasn’t until 1938, 100 years after the first white men settled on Siesta Key, that the American Indians signed a peace treaty with the U.S. It was in 1907 that Capt.

Louis Roberts built a large house in anticipation of a large family and settled down to fishing and a little farming.

His wife, Ocean Deep, turned out to be a marvelous cook, so they began taking in boarders, a venture which proved more profitable. In 1906, they enlarged the house and called it the Siesta Inn. Through the years, the Siesta Inn, on what is now called Roberts Point Road, attracted some colorful clients. Artists — professional

Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel built the Higelhurst Hotel in 1914 at the entrance to Big Pass. and amateur — adorned its walls with local scenes, and one opera singer was reputed to have left her grand piano there.

Some of the famous boarders included Cecil B. DeMille,

Bette Davis, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Agnes Moorehead, Cornel Wilde and Betty Hutton. In 1950, the cast of “The Greatest Show on Earth” preferred to retreat to the quiet serenity of the inn

on the Key after a hard day of shooting.

Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel jumped on the tourist bandwagon and built his Higelhurst Hotel in 1914 at the entrance to Big Pass.

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SIESTA KEY CRYSTAL CLASSIC BOARD AND COMMITTEES SIESTA BEACH FESTIVAL INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Kumar Mahadevan, board chairman J. Robert Parkinson Steve Queior Jim D. Syprett, Esq. Joe Barbetta Cheryl Gaddie Sarasota Sheriff Tom McKnight

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Reputed to be the largest and most beautiful hotel on the West Coast of Florida, the Bay Island Hotel, situated on 10 acres, opened its doors in 1912. It featured three stories, 65 rooms and fine food — it was all you could eat for $1.

Marjorie Hamilton purchased the Bay Island Hotel in the 1930s. She installed unheard of modernizations, including central heating and

a bath for every room.

A few Siesta Key hotels, such as the Gulf View Inn, were removed in the name of progress, but most of the old inns, sooner or later, succumbed to fire. Higel stood on the Sarasota shore and watched helplessly as the Higelhurst went up in flames just a short month before the first bridge connecting the Key with the mainland was com-

pleted in 1917. The loss cost Higel $20,000.

The Bay Island Hotel burned in 1952. The Siesta Inn had its fire in 1922, but the invincible Roberts built it up again in 1923.

He claimed the new hotel was not only bigger and better, but was fireproof and hurricane-proof. And he may have been right — it stood until being torn down in 1996.

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Organizing Committee co-chairs Maria Bankemper, Logistics Committee chair Cheryl Gaddie, Fundraising Committee chair Marlene Roome, Marketing Committee chair Andrew Tyack, treasurer

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The Siesta Key Beach Pavilion, designed by architect Tim Siebert, was dedicated in 1960.

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