WISCONSIN 3 | Block #7
Team Name: Sculptora Borealis
Sculpture Title: Creativity Come to Life
Artist Statement: A talented young artist paints a picture of a medieval landscape with a dragon in the foreground while his imagination and creativity bring the main character to life. The dragon is crawling out of the canvas eager to meet, or eat, the young artist.
Team Members:
- Joshua Jakubowski (Captain): Josh began ice sculpting in 2016 after an invite from Bob Lechtenberg’s sister / Mike Lechtenberg’s daughter, Christine Winters, to compete in the Waukesha Winter Janboree, and that began his journey down this quirky path of sculpting frozen precipitation. He and Bob Lechtenberg have sculpted snow together since the beginning, and Mike (Bob’s dad), was added to the team in 2018. Their collective abilities have earned Sculptora Borealis six WI State Snow Sculpting Championships, four US National Snow Sculpting Championships, two World Snow Sculpting People's Choice Awards and an amazing trip to the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpting Championship for a 3rd-place finish in 2020. Josh's fondest memory of Lake Geneva is when, in 2019 he proposed to my wife, Sara, after they had finished working on their sculpture and the final ceremonies were concluded-ask him to tell you the story. Lake Geneva has a very special place in his heart, and there are so many fond memories throughout the years that are truly cherished. There are so many amazing people, past and present, that have poured their hearts and souls into this event to make it what it is, and it's an absolute honor to be a small part of it.
- Bob Lechtenberg: Bob has been competitively ice sculpting since 2005, and snow sculpting since 2017, but has been making things with snow nearly all of his life. Bob is an IT project manager consultant by profession which keeps him in an office most of the day, but he will take any time he can get to spend with his family or escape to the outdoors, doing things like waterskiing, snow skiing, rock climbing, hiking, golfing, and home projects. Bob also recently picked up sand sculpting and has been in competitions in FL, IN, and WI and is looking to get more sand sculpting events started in the SE WI region. Bob's favorite memory of Lake Geneva is carving in the bitter cold in 2019, taking a middle of the night break in the Boy Scout tent on a hay bale, and falling asleep for an unknown period of time as Josh was supposed to wake him up after a 30 minute nap, but then Josh waking him up later, only revealing after they were done sculpting that he had ended up falling asleep next to the block too and they have no idea how long they were asleep before Josh eventually woke up and then came to get Bob to start carving right away again.
- Mike Lechtenberg: Mike has been snow sculpting with team Sculptora Borealis since 2018. We have won multiple 1st place and people's choice awards at Nationals at Lake Geneva, WI. People's choice award twice at World's Competition in Stillwater, MN. Multiple 1st place and People's choice awards at State Competitions in Fond du Lac Wisconsin and 3rd place at the Breckenridge, CO International Snow Competition in Breckenridge, CO, and . Mike has won numerous ice sculpting awards including 17 first place ice sculpting awards, since starting ice carving in 2005. Additionally Mike likes gardening, woodworking, traveling and photography. I am active in St Vincent de Paul and prayer healing ministry. Mike is semi-retired and has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Marquette University. Mike's most meaningful memory of Lake Geneva is how many people were deeply touched and directly commented to the team on the sculpture Don't Fight Alone that highlighted fighting your inner demons and getting help when you need it.
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