Minnesota Snow Sculpting
Minnesota winter (image by indahs)
Minnesota state (USA) is famous for its cold and long winter, thus, a winter festival event is something you can expect to happen there. Saint Paul, its capital city, hold an annual winter carnival for two weeks by the end of January to early February this year. To my surprise, this winter carnival has been ongoing since year 1886! It considered as one of oldest carnivals in the USA. One of the events in the annual winter carnival was Minnesota’s snow sculpting competition. It was a state level competition and the snow sculpting team who won the race would represent the state at the U.S. National Snow Sculpting Competition.
The competition was organized every year whenever there was enough snow. I had thought the state would never have been lacking snow, well, I was wrong. Some years back, they had to cancel the competition due to lack of snow. Last week Saint Paul has enough snow, but the temperature was warm for the Minnesotan winter in January. It was zero to 2 degree Celcius (32-35 degree Fahrenheit) and the melting few snow sculptures were demolished for safety reason. I visited Saint Paul on the third day after the competition was over and the winners were announced. Unfortunately only the medium size snow sculptures stayed but it was still fun to see the snow sculptures especially when they were lighted up at night.
Salute to the snow sculpture artists and congratulations to the winners. I can not even make a proper snowman, thus, I am sure I won’t be able to make such creative sculptures from snow and even so in the cold weather!
The Saint Paul Winter Carnival is still continued this week with various events and it will end on Sunday, February 7th. More information about the events of the Carnival, please visit: https://www.wintercarnival.com/
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we don’t really get snow, so we have sand sculpting (much warmer lol ), but it is still very cool art!
Sand sculpting is much more fun (I am in favor of tropical weather 😀 ) – I guess the snow sculpting is a great way to burn calories during the winter time 😀
Such a lovely carnival! Those look like such life-like buildings and animals. One from the top looks like a unicorn 😂 It is amazing that it all lights up at night and it looks like a magical fairytale land. It must take ages to do one of these sculptures 😀
And it takes just couple seconds to ruin the snow sculptures 😀 I like the unicorn looking scylptures too – so unfortunate that the weather was warming up.. and now in the past two days, we have snow pouring down like crazy – I am afraid they are all gone by now!
So gorgeous Indah. We have lots of ice sculptures here but I have never seen snow sculptures. These are amazing!
I am sure Canadians will make awesome snow sculptures too – and there are much more snows there as well!! 🙂
We have ice sculpting in Sweden. Lovely shots!
Thank you! 🙂 The snow sculpting is relatively new for me 🙂
Awesome sculptures, Mbak Indah.. Saya juga sering salut dengan para seniman ini, with their high imagination, which I don’t have.
Terimakasih Mbak Nurul 🙂 Butuh talenta juga ya 🙂
What a lot of work for something that just melts away
You said it right 😀 – and in the past two days, the snow is pouring down like crazy! I don’t think the snow sculptures are still in good shape by now..
Thank you so much for sharing!
A very pleasant ambiance with colorful lights !! a beautiful work of artists
Thank you so much Pat!!