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5th Annual Air Canada Atlantic Snow Sculpting Championship
You be the Judge! Watch as snow takes shape at the 5th Annual Air Canada Atlantic Canada Snow Sculpting Championship. Snow artisans from across the world will use their talents and imagination to create winter masterpieces. 1st Place receives $2000; 2nd Place receives $750 and the People's Choice Award team takes home $500. Join in the fun & vote for your favourite! Cast your ballot at Founders' Hall. For further information or to register, click here!
About the 2010 Sculptors:
First ever registrants from Russia in the Jack Frost Snow Sculpting competition, team Gart consists of two citizens of Penza, Russia; Gleb Tkachenko & team mate Artoym Cherykh. With numerous symposiums, exhibitions and competitions under their belt, Team Gart look forward to competing in PEI for their first time.
Team Waterman: Abe Waterman & Ben Waterman, PEI
Abe and Ben Waterman, local sculptors, reside in Caledonia, PEI. Their talents have won them 1st place standing at the Jack Frost Festival 2 years in a row. They also took part in the Quebec Winter Carnival International Snow Sculpting Competition in 2008 representing PEI, and placing 4th.
Albert F. Deveau has been a professional sculptor in wood, concrete, fiberglass, and bronze, since 1976. He has over 20 years experience in snow sculpting with 16 years in Quebec and 9 in Ottawa. He has won the People's Choice Award at the Quebec Winter Carnival 4 times. Team mate Daniel L. Deveau works full time for New Brunswick Power. His hobbies include wood working and cabinet making. He has 4 years experience in snow sculpting, along side his brother Albert (above).
Team Jackson Stan Bodkins and Richard Develllian both are retired businessmen who now live in Jackson, a small New England village Pop.700 in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire. It was in Jackson, during the 2003 New Hampshire State Snow Sculpting Championships where both competed for the first time and succeeded in winning which allowed them to compete in the National Championships in Wisconsin the following year. Since then, they have competed every year in the NH State Championships and have been to the Nationals two times. Team Jackson has also competed in Two International Championships; Breckenridge, Co., USA and last year in Valloire, France. Both Bodkins and Devellian enjoy art in other various forms such as Drawing, Painting as well as sculpting in other media including clay, wood and ice. Both enjoy bicycling during the summer months and cross country skiing in the winter.
Team Harry Farfan Harry Farfan is an arhcitectural design conceptualist , master sand sculptor , chainsaw artist , snow sculptor and musician . Originally from Montreal , he now resides in southern Ontario and has been attracted to snow sculpturing because ,like sand , there is no limitation to the material , enabling very large artistic visions to take shape. It has also helped pass the long Canadian winters.
He plans to create more snow and ice combinations in his work and has been experimenting with pyrotechnics and lighting effects to add even more enchantment and exitement to the sculptures.
Harry will be joined by his nephew Eric from Toronto who is very keen on learning snow sculpting.
Team Rodrigo Ferreira Born in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, and raised in Portimão, Portugal.
My first contact with sculpture was at the age of 16 when attending an unofficial sculpture course lecture by two local Masters. It was by that time I found out the urge in me to work and transform raw materials into meaningful objects. One year later I moved to Oporto, where I attended a three years intensive ceramic course. In these three years and the upcoming five I was involved in the local art scene and theater movement.
For six years now I am a full-time Sculptor, Stage designer and an active member in the local cultural associative movement.
I was awarded a 3rd Prize in the “International Sand Sculpture Competition” for the work “Cubism Reinvented” in Voru, Estonia 2008; and a 1rst Prize in the “International Snow Sculpture Competition” for the work “Trace” in Saimaa Gardensin, Finland 2010.
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