There are a number of international ice and snow sculpting events around the world. The largest events are, understandably, held in countries with cold winters. Due to land distribution and population densities in the higher latitudes, large ice sculpture events are almost exclusively held in the Northern Hemisphere. A number of countries, have established traditions of ice sculpting and have made contributions to the art. Ice artists from these countries regularly appear at international ice sculpture events
1. Angel statue from the Ice and Snow Sculpture Exhibition in Oberhausen, Germany in 2005.
2. A traditional temple at the 2008 Harbin festival
3. A sprawling and elaborately lit ice temple at night from the 2009 Harbin Festival
4. "The Capital of Japan: Tokyo" from the 2007 annual Winterlude festival in Ottawa, Canada.
5. The annual Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in China. htt
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6. A laboratory and library at the 2009 Bruges Snow and Ice Festival.
7. The sun and the moon from the 2005 Boston in Copley Square.
8. A chimera from Greek mythology at the 2010 Winterlude festival.
9. Dragon head up close in Bruges, 2009.
10. Rodin’s "The Thinker" on ice in 2010 in Paris.
11. The Titanic frozen in mid-sink at the SnowCastle of Kemi in Lapland, Finland in 2007. Each year this ice hotel is rebuilt and new art is made.
12. A Russian bear in Canada. “The Capital of Russia: Moscow” at the Winterlude festival: carved by Master Ice Carver: Vladimir Zhikhartsev and assisted by Kevin Ashe, member of the Canadian Ice Carver’s Society. http://rosiana.com/
13. Gears of ice in Stockholm 2009.
14. Horses riding out of the snow at the 2010 Crystal Gallery of Ice Carving in Anchorage, Alaska. http://rosiana.com/
15. Penguins in Pittsburgh.
16. The towers of the 2009 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival.
17. "Showdown on Ice" by Dan Rebholz at the 2007 Winterlude festival
18. The 2005 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival. http
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19. Drama masks of comedy and tragedy; the faces are symbols of the ancient Greek muses, Thalia and Melpomene at the 2009 Winterlude festival.
20. Part of a coral reef ice sculpture 2008 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival.
21. A shaman at Harbin in 2007.
22. Honoring a fallen comrade in 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska.
23. A British soldier in front of Big Ben along the Champs Elysées in Paris in 2010. h
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24. A mountain goat complete with beard and horns in Celebration, Florida at the Gaylord Palms in 2008. Celebration is the town designed by Disney in the 1990s.
