Colony Christmas includes ice, snow sculptures

PALMER — Valley Arts Alliance is sponsoring Ice Castles On the Green, 320 E. Dahlia Street in the historic Palmer downtown district, during this weekend’s Colony Christmas celebration.

This year’s ice sculpture garden features the work of various Mat-Su artists from the Valley Arts Alliance, including Kathy Zeitz Nan Potts, Randy Robinson, Carmen Summerfield . Artists' creations will remain on display on the green through the month of December, or until Mother Nature decides the show will end.

Work on the sculptures continues Saturday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Then from 4:30 to 5 p.m., the newly formed Mat-Su Community Chorus will sing carols at the site with the sculptures as a seasonal backdrop.

The “green” is the open square located between the Mat-Su Borough office, the Colony Inn and the Dahlia Street Market.

The Dahlia Street Market, 320 E. Dahlia Street, was originally built as a trading post in 1935 and is the home of “Rusty’s,” a new Palmer restaurant.

According to the Valley Arts Alliance, Mat-Su Valley gardeners Linda Lockhart in Big Lake and Les Brake in Willow also make ice art throughout the winter.