Ice Alaska is made up of 11x Board Members and one Executive Director, who run the financing, governance and strategic direction of the organization.

Committee members/volunteers manage almost everything else about the event from the ice harvest, communication, registration and feeding the visiting artists, marketing and publicity for the event.  Every year, some volunteers travel up from the lower 48 states and even from overseas, to assist with different roles at the park. The contribution of time and energy by volunteers is an integral part of Ice Alaska’s successful presentation of the World Ice Art Championships.

The Ice Artists come from all over the globe – Australia, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Malaysia – just to name a few.  Most are from the Lower 48 States but Alaska is well represented with some home-grown talent.  These are highly celebrated and well respected artists in their field and come to Fairbanks every year to carve the “arctic diamond” ice and claim the glory of being named a World Ice Art Champion in one of the competitions.