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Talk -The Art of Sand from the Isle of Wight to Iowa: Part 2: Iowa
March 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dorset Geologist’s Association Group (DGAG) will host a talk on the Tuesday 18th March 2025.
Title: The Art of Sand from the Isle of Wight to Iowa: Part 2: Iowa
Speaker: Phil James
Time: Talk will start at 7pm; finish approximately 8pm
Venue: Activity Meeting Room: Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester, DT1 1RR
Lecture Entry Cost: All welcome: £6 non-members (£5 for DGAG members) cash
Booking a seat: contact Chris Webb at email: events@dorsetgeologistsassociation.org
Talk Description: The Art of Sand Part 2 will firstly give a brief recap of Part 1, the Isle of Wight, for those that couldn’t make the January talk. Next will be a look at the most incredible Isle of Wight coloured sand bell ever created and which now resides in the USA. Following that the main focus of Part 2 will be the life and astounding work of Andrew Clemens who produced the most amazing coloured sand creations. They are absolutely staggering and have to be seen to be believed. This time the coloured sands are from a much older geological formation, the Ordovician, 460 million years ago!
The 1st part of these two talks on the art of sand was held on the 21st Jan and featured “The Isle of Wight” and looked at the fascinating 19th century history of the artistic use of 45 million year old (Eocene age) coloured sands of Alum Bay.
Photo: Courtesy of the speaker
Additional Links:
1. Link to the 1st talk held on 21st Jan 2025 in this two part series https://dorsetgeologistsassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1.21-Writeup_DGAG-Talk_series-21Jan_2025_final.pdf
2. Link to Smithsonian Institution
https://americanart.si.edu/blog/andrew-clemens-sand-art