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July 13, 2006
Rich Varano: World Champion Grand Master
To date
, he is one of only two people in the world to have ever
officially received this award of distinction from the world championship
sand sculpting organization
Rich paired with Karen Fralich of Toronto to out perform 32 other
masters working in a two-person team format. They were invited to Harrison
Hot Springs, British Columbia, from as far away as China, India, and Japan.The
inaugural edition of this invitational event was only open
to masters who had previously won world championship medals over the last
decade and a half. Varano had indeed won nine of them prior to this. It was
ostensibly a battle between the best of the best. The first place medals
were in addition to the lion's share of $7,000.00 in prize money. Plus, all
expenses and an additional stipend for one week of diligent effort were paid
to the artists by the event organizing committee.
This achievement is in addition and concurrent toVarano directing another
of the world's premier sand sculpting shows in Jesolo, Venice, Italy
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(below) Grand Master Rich Varano July 05,
2006 w/championship medal.
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July 05, 2006
Rich Varano and his world renowned international award winning team in Jesolo,
Venice, Italy, sculpting 2000 tons of sand into
"VISIONS OF AFRICA"
This sculpture of Tarzan is one of many, it is 30 feet tall (you can just
see the top of the sculptors head at the lower left)
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Varano designed the overall show and worked with a local labor
crew in this Adriatic coastal town preparing the "Pound-Ups" for ten days
before his team of international sculptors arrived to help carve their original
interpretations from the huge mass over the next ten days after that. It
is for a public entertainment purpose in this beach town, where it will be
on display for all of July. A donation of 10 % of all ticket sales goes to
AMREF, a relief organization that is establishing water wells in northern
Uganda.
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Profile HERE
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