Sand in the City, presented by Bank of the West, is a wonderful late-summer event to bring out family and friends to downtown Iowa City for a weekend of free entertainment.  Giant sandboxes filled with fantastical sand sculptures will line Iowa Avenue (from Clinton Street to Linn Street) as well as our FUN Zone, Kids Sandbox, Artist booths and Culinary Row along parts of Dubuque St. and Iowa Avenue.

Corporate, university, and local organizations have the opportunity to sponsor a sand team.  Each sand team works with professional sand sculptors and local architects to build incredible sand sculptures using more than 200 tons of sand!

Support Summer of the Arts programming through the purchase of Sand Dollars.  Sand Dollars can be used to:

• Vote for your favorite sand sculpture to help a team win the People’s Choice Award
• Sand dollars get you into the Kids FUN Zone activity tent
• Play games such as the jumping castle
• Purchase beverages at the Summer the Arts water & refreshment tent

Read more about the specific activites planned for each day on the Sand in the City Schedule page.