featured ice sculptors

Muujii Muuji, one of the site's featured ice sculptors, works on large color ice sculpture of a Shaolin monk

Ok, I’m making progress restoring this set of galleries. Basically, these are galleries of ice sculptures from some pretty spectacular ice sculptors. I’ve got 2 newer galleries (1 brand new, actually) and 6 galleries kinda from the old site (but they might have new pics!)

By the way, for a little bit, the galleries might seem to heavily emphasize male, U.S. based ice sculptors. Honestly, it’s easier for me to get quality ice sculpture pics from ice sculptors that I know (mostly in the U.S.) and there are more male ice sculptors than female ones. However, I will make a concerted effort to broaden the galleries to reflect excellence in ice sculpting around the world, whoever they are and wherever they come from.

Muujii Muuji uses a large chisel to quickly sculpt ice

Muujii Muuji

Greek sphinx ice sculpture by Dan Bergin

Dan Bergin

Junichi Nakamura stands by "Attacking Claws" ice sculpture of a lion attacking a gnu. At the World Ice Art Championships in Alaska

Junichi Nakamura

Ed Tillotson

Heather Brice works on her sculpture with a die grinder

Heather Brice

Ben Rand inspects his ice sculpture, "Up in the Heavens" at a competition

Ben Rand

Mark Daukas

Jeff Stahl led the team for this massive ice sculpture titled "Elijah" at the World Ice Art Championships. Photo by Patrick Endres.

Jeff Stahl

I’ve seen a lot of amazing ice art in my career and I’m frequently surprised that I’m largely unaware of some amazing ice sculptors, for whatever reason. But when I find out about someone, I hope I can share their ice art in these galleries and on the site. Eventually, I hope this page will have at least 20 or so galleries. (or more? 😳) Right now, the only order they’re really in is how they best fit on a grid. Anyway, I’m plugging away at it, so check back later if this doesn’t meet your lofty expectations 😜

Finally, I’m resisting the urge to put a gallery of my own stuff here just to act as filler. I’ll do that later when there are at least several more awesome sculptor galleries added! Let’s say a minimum of 15 galleries before I succumb. And at least for now, the galleries are in no specific order. I MIGHT have newer galleries at the beginning, but they’re also grouped according to the thumbnail pic size. Just so that it doesn’t look too crappy πŸ’©