Rainbow Ice Sculptures
to celebrate the 75th
Anniversary of UES
We
need the entire UES community to help create the building blocks, literally,
for a day of colorful construction on February 15. It’s easy! Please save your
½ gallon milk and juice cartons, rinse them out, fill with water and a dash or
two of food coloring, and leave outside to freeze. Save and freeze as many
blocks as you can between now and February 15th. Ask your neighbors to help, get
your grandmother to make colorful ice blocks too! On February 15th, we will be
building colorful ice sculptures and functional outdoor furniture on the
Vermont College of Fine Arts green, where the parade and winter festival will
culminate the following week. You will be able to drop your ice blocks off the
day before and that morning, and we would love you to stay to help build if you
can. Dan Clar will be our construction and engineering leader. Building will be
an all day project, with lots of hot cocoa and hot cider breaks in College
Hall, so feel free to drop ice blocks and go, come back later if your Sunday
schedule allows. The plan is to make tables and benches, to function at the
celebration, and other fantastic colorful forms to celebrate UES. All community
members are invited to participate. Our inspiration is the 2012 Edmonton
Rainbow Igloo, and while we won’t be making covered structures that can be entered, we
will be making hollow forms that we will light up from within! Our sculptures
will glow colorfully as the lantern procession reaches the College Green on
February 18th. The sculptures will remain as long as nature allows, and will be
useful surrounding the College Green skating rink.
What
you can do:
1. Save and rinse as many ½
gallon milk and juice cartons as you can between now and Feb.15
2. Open up tops, fill with
water and some food coloring, place outside to freeze
3. Bring frozen blocks to the
College Green starting Saturday February 14th through Sunday morning, February
15th (drop off location will be obvious)
4. If you want to make colored
ice spheres with balloons, any size will be welcome. Its easy, use the same
method as above, but with a balloon instead of milk carton:-)
Please
email with any questions and/or if you know you definitely want to help build: marni.leikin@gmail.com
Thanks
in advance!
Marni
