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. One of the mentors was using a propane torch to help clear the ice...

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...

Mr. Bunny Bones Site 11 Magical Notes Site 10 Winters Harmony Site 9 The Great Migration Site 8 Unlikely Friends Site 7 Leave it to the Beaver Site 6 Creature of the Deep Site 5 The Flying Fish Site 4 Glacier Derby Site 3 Ancient Deity of Protection Site 2 SR 71...

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...

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 para medic, is the mentor for this next...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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 Results: 1st Place:White Friday Silas Firth, Captain, Barnabus Firth, Aurora Fagan, Ben Firt 2nd Place: Fight Back Junichi Nakamura, Captain, Shinichi Sawamura, Benjamin Rand, Paul Miller 3rd Place: The Ice Man Cometh Steve Brice, Captain, Burr (Buddy)...

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.