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Gratitude Garden

We are SO grateful for everyone who has donated to our sculpture garden mission!

With your help we are able to create new sculptures for the permanent collection of the Earth Art Studio sculpture garden, off-set local artists costs for exhibiting here, maintain the trails + make upgrades to the garden but most importantly, make visits free to local schools + educational groups.

We have installed new 3D ceramic GRACIAS letters in the garden and are creating personalized plaques for each donor. New native plants are being added alongside ceramic creations, it is a perpetual work in progress!

Want to be a part of it?

Click here to donate and we’ll make a plaque to add to the garden in your honor!

Mil Gracias

A huge thank you to everyone that came ALLLLL the way out to our studio in the middle of nowhere for our 2nd Todos Santos Open Studios! We loved meeting and talking with all of you!

Especially grateful to those of you that bought art and donated to the sculpture garden – you are so appreciated and help us keep doing what we’re doing! If you missed coming out this weekend or you want to come again, schedule a private tour with us!

Did you love your studio + sculpture garden visit? Please consider writing us a review, mil gracias for your support!!

work in progress: water columns

What began as a sketch a few months ago has now (almost) become the newest sculptures in the studio! The ‘Water Columns’ are steel frames with plankton inspired ceramic forms suspended within the frame. The steel was fabricated by my husband Nate, and he gets extra points for figuring out all the math to cut the angle iron just right to get everything to match up, it was really tricky but he did a great job! Now I’m working on getting them painted and then will add in the ceramic forms with steel cables. Excited to see these actually come to life find a home in the sculpture garden.

I’ll be sharing these pieces during Todos Santos Open Studio Art Tour January 31 + February 1st from 10 – 4 and they will be exhibited as part of the Art Baja Patio exhibition late March, come see them in person!

El Nido!

The sculpture garden just got a little bit cooler with the addition of our new nest! El nido has been a work in progress over the past few weeks and it was just recently finished. Javier and Julietta of Arte con Madera del Desierto worked their magic weaving palo de arco into this amazing structure. We’ll be adding a table and benches to complete the shaded picnic area soon.

Come visit El Nido in person!

El Nido in progress…

El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio
El Nido | the dirt | Jenni Ward Earth Art Studio

Latest Addition to the Sculpture Garden

It’s still a work in progress but we are adding a shade area to the sculpture garden that will be our picnic area, its a dome shape with two arched doorways and it will be woven with locally sourced palo de arco sticks that will give it a nest like structure.

Right now, the workers are designing the skeletal structure of the form with rebar and anchoring it to the ground with concrete footings, the steel is coated in a mesh and tinted concrete skin to protect it and help it blend into the natural wood. Next the wood will be woven and braided into the structure.

Here’s a few images of the the mock-ups and work in progress of El Nido…

Stitching in the Studio

We had so much fun with Christina Dean last Saturday learning to embroidery at the studio that honestly, I drank the proverbial KoolAid and had a hard time stopping finding things to embroider, in fact I spent most of my Sunday continuing to work on ideas which only led to more ideas!

The workshop led everyone through basic stitches along with pro-tips and then we dove into creating desert floral designs onto our bandanas. Everyone took their projects and supplies home to finish up. Oh yeah, and we had some delish spicy cucumber margaritas to accompany the day. So much fun!

Join us for our next workshop: Glass Etching on Upcycled Bottles!

swarm installed

We had to remove The Swarm installation over the summer because it’s original placement was in the arroyo and we didn’t want it to get washed away in a storm. But now that we’ve got the sculpture trail all cleaned up again, we re-installed it in a slightly new location.

This piece is a perpetual work-in-progress as new insects will be added over time allowing for the swarm to continue to grow. It is inspired by the shapes and varieties of the very strange insects we have in our desert ecosystem including our prolific honeybees that swarm from location to location. Amazingly, a swarm of actual honey bees flew over us during the installation – wish we had gotten some video of that too!

cleaning up the desert

We are spending a lot of time getting our sculpture garden back up to speed after a very stormy summer. I pretty much had to unearth the labyrinth from the tangle of weeds and vines that took over. While it’s walkable again, it still needs a bunch of work since the mini-flash floods washed away most of the sand layer that was keeping the surface looking nice and clean. Slowly, we are also unearthing all the trails and clearing away the debris as well as making new areas for art.

One of the newest areas we’re cleaning up is our gratitude garden. This space will be dedicated to everyone who donates to help us make the sculpture garden bigger and better. Large ceramic letters spelling gracias will be planted in the garden along with ceramic tiles with the names of our generous donors. Want to help us out? DONATE HERE

Dujour Magazine mention!

One of our closest neighboring businesses is Villa Santa Cruz, a sweet boutique hotel with sprawling gardens, beachside restaurants, horse stables and luxury rooms. Earth Art Studio has partnered with them to offer off site desert art tours for guests and we were just mentioned in this recent article written about them in Dujour Magazine. How cool is that!?

Just a reminder that if you come out here to visit the studio, you can make a day out of it by making a reservation and enjoy a meal with your toes in the sand at Villa Santa Cruz!