GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — The Fourth Annual 'World of Winter' festival begins Friday, Jan. 15.
Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. is bringing in the new year with a winter festival full of ice games, walking tours, and socially distanced musical events.
Ice Guru Randy Finch took us behind the scenes of the ice.
The company created over 80 ice sculptures to put out during the six-week festival of art and fun downtown. The sculptures range from two-feet under the sea creatures to live lights inside of 600-pound luminaries.
Each exhibit is professionally crafted with the same quality people will see at award winning art sculpture shows, but this show is free to the public. But there will be way more than ice at the festival this year, as each piece of ice art has an event surrounding it.
The first day, a piano made almost completely out of ice will be played live downtown for anyone who wants to come and hear (a socially distanced gathering of course).
There will be new pieces out each weekend of the festival and each one will be out until they melt. The festival will end the last day in January.
Click here for an interactive map to help you navigate around the ice art.
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