23 year old Casey Lee Conner has been an accomplished artist for quite some time. He won many illustration awards during his earlier school years, was president of the National Art Honors Society in his local chapter. Casey won the scholastics gold medal for a work judged in New York City in the 2008 student show. He studied Graphic Design & Sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and finished his business and entrepreneurship degree at Western Carolina University. He trained under one of the United States largest retail ice sculpting companies and has thousands of ice sculptures under his belt.