PHOTOS: Snow sculptors create giant snowflake at MSU
Snow sculpture finish
Juliana Welter and Heather Friedli put the finishing touches on an 8-foot-tall snow sculpture called “Mankato Winter Pride” Wednesday on the Minnesota State University campus. The sculpture features a snowflake and the image of the university’s mascot, Stomper, and imagery representing indigenous culture.
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Maggie Thompson puts finishing touches on one of the cutouts of the snowflake Wednesday.
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Snow sculptor Heather Friedli carves the Stomper logo into a panel at the center of the snowflake sculpture Wednesday.
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Snow sculptors Maggie Thompson, left, and Juliana Welter fill a form with snow as they prepare to make a large snow sculpture Monday at Minnesota State University. A trio of sculptors, named Team Kwe, finished the 8-foot tall sculpture of a snowflake with the MSU Stomper logo at its center Wednesday afternoon.
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Snow sculptor Maggie Thompson, left, fills a form with snow as Juliana Welter packs it down as they prepare to make a large snow sculpture Monday at Minnesota State University.
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Below: Maggie Thompson, left, fills a form with snow as Juliana Welter packs it down as they prepare to make a large snow sculpture Monday at Minnesota State University.
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From left, snow sculptors Juliana Welter, Heather Friedli and Maggie Thompson work on their snow sculpture Tuesday in front of the Earley Center for the Performing Arts.
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Snow sculptor Heather Friedli takes snow off the top of what will be a snowflake Tuesday in front of the Earley Center for the Performing Arts.
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Heather Friedli’s hand wields a tool as she shaves snow off a sculpture Tuesday.
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Snow sculptors Heather Friedli and Juliana Welter work on a sculpture of a snowflake Wednesday near Minnesota State University’s Earley Center for the Performing Arts.
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Left: Maggie Thompson works on the details on the back of the sculpture Wednesday. Below: Maggie Thompson, left, fills a form with snow as Juliana Welter packs it down Monday to prepare for the carving on Tuesday and Wednesday,
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Heather Friedli works on the snow sculpture Wednesday.
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Maggie Thompson puts some finishing touches on one of the cutouts of the snowflake Wednesday.
Sculptors create giant snowflake at MSU
Pat Christman
Photographer for the Mankato Free Press.
