The idea was simple enough: Freeze a car in a giant block of ice.
Two artists, Mary Carothers and Sue Wrbican, teamed up with Michigan Technological University and a local high school for the Frozen Car Project, which they envisioned as a bold statement on transportation and the environment. The project was to be unveiled at Michigan Tech’s winter carnival.
Ms. Carothers, an associate professor of fine arts at the University of Louisville, and Ms. Wrbican, an assistant professor of art and visual technology at George Mason University, chose the car, a 1978 Chevy Nova, partly for its famed guzzling of gas and partly because they had a broken one on hand. They had a location on Michigan Tech’s campus, and their message of environmental consciousness.
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