Houston artists Brian Mahanay and Julie Birsinger were two of seventeen a teams who sculpted hotel rooms from ice in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, just north of the Arctic circle at ICEHOTEL, an peculiarly Swedish art/winter carnival type event in which guest pay big money to spend a night in a hotel made entirely of ice. Mahanay is working to transform warehouses near the Orange Show into a garage for art classes and studio for art cars.