School of Ice
NICA
Ice Carving Goals
This website will be geared toward educating professional ice carvers, chefs, and novice carvers on how to hone their ice carving skills. We will provide information for basic skills like freezing techniques and precision cutting all the way through to 3D sculpting.
We will also encourage the business carvers to share their complex designs and present some out of the box ideas for your future clients.
Hall of Fame Inducts 3 new members
Glen Motley
George O’Palenick
Vivat Hongpong
Thanks for all your
contributions to ice carving
and to The National Ice
Carving Association.
Go to the Hall of Fame and see who makes the cut!
It was a great venue once again as our members proved that the sharing of knowledge is the best way to help the industry grow. Thanks to everyone who attended this year. We will have more information about the next trade show very soon.
Special thank you should go out to Jeff Petercsak for organizing and planning the event. You did a great job!
Read about some new NICA ideas that came from the Trade Show!
NICA Trade Show in Vegas
Design And Sculpt
Studio Competition Series NO TRAVEL REQUIRED!
August 2009
This is an official NICA sanctioned competition and all participants will receive points towards certification. This will be an abstract freestyle competition. The entry deadline will be extended to November 30 so get your sculptures done and photographed! This event is sponsored by Ice Sculpting Tools.com.
This will be a fun competition since there are no restrictions on amount of ice used, no design theme, and you can carve in the comfort of your own shop! Put your design caps on or rehash an old design, but make sure you get some pretty great photos if you want to win this event.
Ice Sculpting Tools.com will be providing the gift certificate prizes;
First Place $200 gift certificate
Second Place $100 gift certificate
Third Place $50 gift certificate
Design away and start window shopping for some new tools, so when you win you will be ready to bye!
You can enter in Hand Carved - CNC Carved - or Mixed Hand / CNC
Click on the NICA shield on any page to go back to the original NICA web site.
Raffle WINNERS! Find out who got all the goodies?
You may be the guy who won and didn’t know it. See who walked away with the trim saw given away by Ice Sculpt.
These guys sure were happy to attend this years trade show!
Trade show photos compliments of James Ottens
Special Thanks for the following people who sent in information to post on this website!
Aaron Costic of Ice Sculpting Tools.com sent in a great amount of pictures and some information to better this site. Mostly in the tool section, which is where we need some help!
We are looking forward to:
Section on Colorizing logos written by Randy Finch and Derek Maxfield!
More Equipment by Mike Clinebell
Safety Standards by Ken Berkemper
Delivery Systems by Stephan Koch
How about you put your bio on the carvers section of this web site.
“Sweet Seduction” Designed and carved by Stephan Koch of The Indiana Ice Studio
Second Place Design and Sculpt Studio Competition series for CNC style competition!
Great Job Stephan!
Did you know he made his own CNC machine!
Would you like to be a part of our Business Membership Drive!
NICA is raising money to start an advertising fund for a national campaign. All money raised for this fund will go directly to advertising for your personal business.
If we all pull together we will have a stronger advertising dollar and voice to be heard. We can create a buzz in the industry on a national scale to start driving people to bye ice sculptures instead of wilting flowers!
All Certified Lead Judges will be required to meet in a judges meeting via phone conference in order to maintain their eligibility for the up coming competition season.
We have also had some changes on competition rules.
More information to come.
New Judging Standards!
Everything you need to know about Ice Carving!
Glen Motley introduced as a new member to the NICA Hall Of Fame!
Alice Connelly surrounded by men before entering Minus 5 Lounge! Even better all the guys took up a collection so Alice could go and gamble. No one knows how the money was really spent!
Dean Carlson working hard on programing that Ice Sculpt CNC machine. Some of the features he has added to that machine are really great. If you can see the styrofoam fish in the picture then you know Dean offers those to his clients for rental! Joking, it’s a demo piece.
Trade
Show
Photos
by James
Ottens
NICA Wants to Advertise Nationally
with your help.
