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The Youth Competition is successfully finished.
1st Place Winters Harmony. 2nd Place Mr. Bunny Bones 3rd Place Ancient Deity of Protection Site Number 7. Unlikely Friends Site Number 8. The Great Migration Site Number 4. The Flying Fish Site Number 10. Magical Notes . Site Number 3. Glacier Derby . Site...
Finishing Touches
With less than an hour until the horn blows, everyone is clambering and scuffling to finish their artwork. They are working to clean up the surface of the ice and cover up any cuts that aren't smooth. When the signal sounds, the kids have one hour to clean their...
Final Carving Day
The Youth Competition will end at 6pm tonight, March 16. They will have an hour to clean their sites and leave. The judging will begin at 7pm. Good luck to all of these young, talented and budding artists. At the pre carving meeting this morning, Jim said everyone...
Day Two of Carving
It's day two of carving for our youthful sculptors. The atmosphere at the competition site is much less chaotic today as work on carving progresses. Teammates are conferring with one another, taking turns carving, checking sketches and asking mentors for help or...
Thanks to the Youth Mentors
Everyone has been hard at work on this first day of carving. Picture updates and titles will be here tomorrow. A big thank you goes out to all the adult mentors who are helping this future generation of artistic sculptors. Thank you: Jim Warner (head) Mark Chapin...
Cute Picture
Our beloved Joan Foote way back in 1999
Youth Competition
The Youth Competition began yesterday, Monday, March 13. Twenty one young carvers, Jr High to High School age arrived at the Ice Park ready to try their hand at sculpting. Jim Warner, retired carver as well as a retired paramedic, is the mentor for this next...
Snow Carving Competition
Today, Saturday, is the start of the 3rd Annual Family Snow Carving Competition, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Fairbanks. It is also the 3rd anniversary for Marci Ward, the organizer of the event. Asked how she came to conceive of this special snow celebration, she...
Lost and Found
These are all the mittens, gloves and hats that are waiting to be reunited with their owners or partner gloves at the Gift Shop. If you're missing something, please come check with us - we even have a set of keys, some glasses and a lens cap!
Youth Classic Begins Soon
March 13-March 16 are the dates for the 2023 Youth Classic Ice Sculpting Competition, open to teens between the ages of 13 and 18. Alaska artists have developed an ice sculpting curriculum that can be taught in local schools. To encourage the students to continue to...
Volunteers-the heart of Ice Alaska
A volunteer is a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task. One of the more well-known benefits of volunteering is the impact on the community. Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and make it a better place. Even...
Winners of the Single Block are…..
The winners of the Single Block are: Dean DeMarais Never Alone Junichi Nakamura Sage of the Forest Joshua Kang Year of the Hare
Ice Alaska
Ice Alaska began anew as a non profit organization at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds in 2018. It began with a vision and with people who believed passionately enough to not want that vision to fade. These were a group of resilient leaders motivated to get through...
May I Help You
The Gift Shop and snack bar, "Arctic Habanero", is always a fun place to "hang out". When you're cold and need to warm up you can find a good cup of coffee as well as a smooth, hot, delicious and satisfying cup of hot chocolate. The hot dogs, with or without chili,...
“A photo is all that remains from an ice sculpture”
Klaus Ebeling (1930-2022) carved snow and ice for thirty years. He was a master of perspective and illusion, and with his carving partner,Jerry Merrill, won the International Snow Sculpting Competition in Lillehammer, Norway with their sculpture, "Pyramid On One...
Multi Block Finals
Multi Block Results: 1st Place:White Friday Silas Firth, Captain, Barnabus Firth, Aurora Fagan, Ben Firth 2nd Place: Fight Back Junichi Nakamura, Captain, Shinichi Sawamura, Benjamin Rand, Paul Miller 3rd Place: The Ice Man Cometh Steve Brice, Captain, Burr (Buddy)...
2023 Double Block
Double Block Results: 1st Place Gladiator by Junichi Nakamura and Dean DeMarais 2nd Place On Patrol by Steve and Heather Brice 3rd Place Gold Rush by Todd Dawson and Andrew Thistlewaite
And the winners are….
There are five judges who tour the sites and award points to each sculpture. The very first criterion is a 10-point maximum for the “WOW Factor”. The next 40 points are awarded for Technical merits. Degree of difficulty Physical difficulty: Pushing structural limits...
Multiblock starts February 17, 2023
The 2023 Ice Alaska season kicks of February 17, 2023 with the Multiblock Classic! Artist from around the world will transform Alaska Arctic Diamond blocks of ice harvested from natural lake ice. Tickets are available now.
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Home of the 2023 World Ice Art ChampionshipsCompetition: February 17 through March 17
Park is open February 17 through March 31