First Place , International Golden Chisel Award

State of Alaska Governors Choice Award

Ivalie Cox Artist Choice Award

People's Choice Award
 

 

 
 

Ice Sculpture
with Ice Art Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska is the site of the World Ice Art Championships
every March.

For the event, Fairbanks provides the largest natural ice blocks in the world,
allowing the sculptors an opportunity to work on a pure and transient medium. 

While there are other ice sculpting competitions in the northern hemisphere,
none are like the World Ice Art Championships. 


Watch the Sculptors
If you are visiting in March, you will get a chance to see
these international sculptors carving ice at a special park just for displaying the
results of the championships. Because the water is so pure and the Alaskan
Interior's winter temperatures so cold, the ice forms quickly and densely, 
which gives it a slight glacial blue tint. It is so clear that a person can read a
newspaper through a four-foot block of ice.  Sculptors have pronounced
Fairbanks’ ice as the best in the world for sculpting.


 

https://www.fairbanks-alaska.com/ice-sculptures.htm
 

 
 

Hand Sculptured from 50,000 Pounds of Natural Ice

Sculpted by Team USA Captain Steven Berkshire  from Ice Impressions

and Teammates Mark Johnson, Carl Eady and Stan Kolanko in

Fairbanks, Alaska
 

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This Ice Sculpture Competition Presentation weighed over 20 tons

and was sculpted by hand in Temperatures of 35-below Zero,

Outside on Location for 6-days
 

 

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 World Ice Art Championships

Fairbanks Alaska

Abstract Single Block Classic Competition

Second Place, International Golden Chisel Award
 

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Incognito
 

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Incognito Ice Sculpture Presentation

Sculpted by Hand from Natural Ice by

Team USA Captain Steven Berkshire and Mark Johnson

Ice Sculpture Dimensions were 12-feet high, 5-feet long 3 feet wide

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2005 World Ice Art Championships

Single Block Classic Competition

Fairbanks Alaska

2nd Place

 

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The Legend

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Sculpted by Hand from Natural Ice

by Team USA Captain Steven Berkshire and Mark Johnson
 

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Steven Berkshire Sculpted a Breaching Great White Shark 

for the 2005 World Ice Art Championships

Fairbanks Alaska

"Look closely" Steven is kneeling next to the Shark in this Photo
 

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2004 Ottawa International Masters Invitational

2nd Place
 

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Angelic Beauty

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Steve Berkshire & Jeff Stahl Sculpted 25-300 Pound Ice Blocks

in 30 hours to create this  Ice Masterpiece

Ottawa Canada
 

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2004 World Ice Art Championships

Multiple Block Classic Competition
 

Fairbanks Alaska
 

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Bound for the Abyss
 

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Steve Berkshire, Jeff Stahl, Carl Eady and Brady Lance sculpted

This 25 foot tall Ice Sculpture Presentation for the

2004 World Ice Art Championships , Multiple Block Competition
 

Fairbanks Alaska
 

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This Ice Sculpture Competition Presentation weighed over 20 tons

and was created by the 4-person team in 6-days in temperatures reaching

35-Degrees Below Zero Fahrenheit

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Steven is pictured standing in front of this great ice sculpture in

Fairbanks, Alaska
 

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Ice Sculpture Presentation Under Construction
 

 

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2003 World Ice Art Championships

Single Block Classic Competition

Fairbanks Alaska

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Eternal Liberty

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Hand Sculpted from Natural Ice

by Team USA Captain Steven Berkshire and Chan Kitbury

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Great Lakes Invitational

National Silver Medal

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After Hours

 

Sculpted by Steven Berkshire of  Ice Impressions

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Several of the World Championship Competition Photo images displayed on this web site

were photographed for Ice Impressions by alaskaphotographics.com

 

 

 

 

Click Here to View Additional Ice Impressions Ice Sculpture Galleries

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 Office: (231)-946-3198