WISCONSIN 2 | Block #14
Team Name: Team USA
Sculpture Title: Inner Child
Artist Statement: Everyone has early childhood experiences. Some are comforting, some are traumatic. They can have a strong influence well into adulthood.
Team Members:
- Tom Queoff (Captain): Tom has an MFA in Sculpture from UW- Milwaukee 1977. He has been a self-employed sculptor since 1977 and began snow sculpting in 1986. He has participated in numerous snow sculpting competitions over the years and received awards in eight of them, including at the 1998 Nagano Japan Winter Olympics Art Festival and the 2000 World Championship competition in Kiruna Sweden. Tom's fondest memory of Lake Geneva is winning the 1997 competition and then going on to Japan and the Winter Olympics Arts Festival.
- Michael J. Sponholtz: Michael was born in Tisch Mills, WI and has a BFA in Art and Design from UW-Milwaukee. He is a self-employed sculpture artist who also paints and enjoys cooking. Michael has enjoyed sculpting since kindergarten where he learned to love making clay animal figures. His cathedral is the great outdoors, whether on a mountain top in Idaho, or at a stream in Southwestern Wisconsin. That is what he wants to share with others through his art. His fondest memory of Lake Geneva is winning the 1997 competition.
- Mike Martino: Mike was born Kenosha, WI, and has a BFA in Sculpture from UW Milwaukee. He has enjoyed making things from a very young age. He is a self-employed artist, carving wood and making paintings of cars since 1997. His favorite memory of Lake Geneva is winning the 1997 Nationals which allowed their team to go to Japan for the 1998 Winter Olympic Art Festival where they won the bronze medal. He feels that they really came together as a team to overcome the challenging weather conditions.
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