Join us at the studio for the first in our Fall Workshop Series! Learn a new crafty skill while sipping a signature cocktail or mocktail in the quiet of the Las Playitas desert. Each workshop will guide you through a project from start to finish to help you create a unique, personalized piece while exploring a variety of techniques, tools + materials.
Glass Etching with Jenni Ward Saturday October 25 | 1 – 4pm Jenni will walk you through all of the steps to mask and acid etch your own design onto a recycled glass bottle to use as a flower vase. All materials, cocktail/mocktail, water and light snacks provided.
These Trinket Necklaces with ceramic and steel hand made, mini-sculptures on leather cord with copper elements are the perfect gift!
These are the last four pieces in this series! Each necklace comes with its own mounting board, so when you’re not wearing it, your wearable sculpture will still be on display.
We have big plans for the sculpture garden, like really big plans and you can be a part of it! We’ve added a donate button in the shop and when you donate, you help us:
create new sculptures + installations for the permanent collection of the garden
off-set local artists costs for exhibiting like transportation, installation + infrastructure
maintain the sculpture trail – the desert likes to take over!
make upgrades to the garden like new features, nooks + trails to explore
make visits free to local schools + educational groups
When You Donate: a ceramic tile with your name stamped on it will be added to the sculpture garden in gratitude for your support! DONATE HERE+ THANK YOU!
September is a tricky month weather wise in Baja, it’s the peak of hurricane season and some say the hottest, buggiest and most humid month of the year. Last year, it was lovely fall weather with a few intermittent showers, this year has been downright, H.O.T. and I’ve been checking the radar reports daily. Luckily the big storms have been staying out to sea and we have only received water, not wind and the desert is loving it. Between our property and town is the Grande Arroyo, normally a broad, dry river wash, but it ran with water from the mountains all the way to the ocean for the first time in two years, it’s amazing to see. We have a much smaller arroyo on our property that is part of the sculpture trail, it’s a small enough tributary that it hardly ever runs, but it’s big enough that we had to build a bridge with tubes in it for the times when the water does come. And it ran too for the first time in years, luckily we had moved all of the art of of the arroyo beforehand.
dude is about 4″ long!our arroyo after it ran
With all this rain, comes the greening of the desert which is so vibrant right now, the property is almost unrecognizable. The flowers are all in bloom, mushrooms are sprouting and dying all in the course of a day and the bugs and birds are aplenty. When the temperature cools off enough to do some yard work, we will have our hands full this fall. I’m pretty sure that you can sit and watch the vines grow throughout the day, the grasses are popping up on all our trails and the labyrinth is getting taken over by weeds that have just been waiting for this deluge.
tiny cactus, big flowerviews from the studio
We’ve also learned that we’ve got some leaks in the studio that will need some attention and we’ll need to do some drainage work to redirect the water on a better path when we get mini-flash floods on the property. The leaks are frustrating, the amount of bugs flying up my nose and in my eyes are maddening, but seeing the desert come back to life after years of dormancy, is pretty spectacular.
If you’re visiting the Los Cabos area and looking for a unique art activity that gets you out of the tourist areas and into nature, come visit us at Earth Art Studio!
Enjoy the adventure of leaving the paved roads behind, take in the quiet of the desert and find where art & nature meet.
Choose from our Gray Agave Art Sticker, our Black and White Cactus Art Sticker or our classic BUY ART. All are printed with eco-friendly inks on thick, durable vinyl that is highly resistant to scratches, water and sunlight.
If you’ve visited the studio over the past two years, our desert was mostly a field of browns and grays since we hadn’t had a significant amount of water in two years. But the flora of the desert are patient creatures, lying in dormancy until their time comes to go green. Luckily we have had a few storms roll through, with possibly more to come and the desert has gone from brown to green seemingly overnight. Check out these before and after photos of the property, what a difference a little rain makes!
The sculpture trail now has grasses and vines popping up in the middle of trail, everything is flowering and the bugs and the birds are thriving too. In an abundance of caution, we have pulled all of the sculptures out of the arroyo for the summer storm season, but the pieces that are still here in the higher sections of our property have a completely new environment to shine in. We are hoping to have enough water in the next few weeks, that our desert stays vibrant through the winter.
Thank you for being patient while we took some time away from writing blog posts this summer, but now, we’re back! Here’s a few things you may have missed out on…
We partnered with Cero Basura (Zero Trash) and have adopted our local beach Playa Tia Michaela – stay tuned for an organized dune clean up this fall!
The Price Sculpture Forest held its annual Wander/Wonder ‘sculpted dance happening’ and my installation Spore Patterns was chosen as one of the works for dancers to respond to. Be sure to check out this spot if you’re ever on Whidbey Island, WA – it does not disappoint!
New photos of A Feast of Flowers installation in Santa Cruz CA was posted to our public art page, check them out here!
We had planned to launch a new group exhibition in the sculpture garden this fall, but decided to hold off until the spring, so keep an eye out for H2O, our water themed exhibition in early spring of next year – it’s going to be a good one!
