List of chainsaw carving competitions

Chainsaw carving competitions are competitive events held all over the world where contestants display their skills in the act of chainsaw carving.

Australia

• Australian Chainsaw Carving Championship, Melbourne ^{[ citation needed ]}

Canada

• Chetwynd (International) Chainsaw Carving Competition (Championship), Chetwynd, British Columbia ^[1] held annually since 2005 ^[2]
• Brigade Days/Hope Chainsaw Carving Competition, Hope, British Columbia, biannually ^[3]
• Prince George Chain Saw Carving Competition, Prince George, British Columbia

Japan

• Tōei, Aichi, since 2001 ^[4]

United Kingdom

• Carve Carrbridge, Carrbridge, Scotland, held annually since 2003 ^[5]
• English Open Chainsaw Carving Competition, Tatton Park, Cheshire, England, since 2005 ^[6]

United States

Tools of the trade at a chainsaw carving demonstration and competition held in Ocean Shores, Washington

Arkansas

• Arkansas State Championship Chainsaw Carving Competition, Russellville, Arkansas, annually since 2021 on the first weekend of May each year as part of Balloons over Russellville ^[7]

Alaska

• Seldovia Craft Invitational Chainsaw Competition, Seldovia, Alaska, annually since 2006 ^[8]

Montana

• Kootenai Country Montana International Chainsaw Carving Championship, Libby, Montana ^[9]

Oregon

• Reedsport Chainsaw Carving Competition/Oregon Divisional Chainsaw Sculpting Championship, Reedsport, Oregon, ^[10] held annually since 2000 ^[11]

Pennsylvania

• Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous, Ridgway, Pennsylvania, held annually since 2000 ^[12]

Washington

• Burning Bear, Ocean City, Washington ^{[13] [14]}
• Sedro Woolley Loggerodeo Longest running 4th of July Celebration in Washington State, Sedro Woolley, Washington, since before 1999 ^[15]
• Sequim Irrigation Fest, Sequim, Washington, featuring Logging Show since 1989 ^[16]
• Sand and Sawdust, Ocean Shores, Washington ^[17]
• Texas Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving Contest, Fremont Oktoberfest in Seattle since before 2005, draws 30,000 spectators ^[18]

Wisconsin

• US Open Chainsaw Sculpture Championship, Eau Claire, Wisconsin ^[19]

References

1. Chetwynd chainsaw carving sale has community buzzing: Mayor says it was tough to part with sculptures, but public collection getting too big, CBC, February 22, 2016
2. "Chainsaw Carvings – history", Official website, Chetwynd Visitor Centre/District of Chetwynd, British Columbia, retrieved 2016-09-01
3. "Arts and Culture: Chainsaw Carving Competition", Official website, Hope, British Columbia, 2015, archived from the original on 2015-10-05, retrieved 2016-09-01
4. "The 16th Chainsaw Art Competition in Toei", Japan Times, May 24, 2016
5. Wood work: Images from Carrbridge's chainsaw contest, BBC, 1 September 2014
6. "Tatton Park hosts English Open Chainsaw Carving Competition", Messenger Newspapers (UK), Newsquest , August 8, 2009
7. "Chainsaws". Balloons over Russellville. 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24.
8. Jenny Chissus (August 28, 2013), "Chips to fly this weekend in chainsaw competition", Homer News, Homer, Alaska
9. "Chainsaw carving championship returns to Libby", The Montanian, January 23, 2018
10. "Chainsaw Sculpting Championships", Oregon Coast, May 2008
11. Steve Lindsley (June 24, 2015), "Carving creates a stir in chainsaw capital", The Umpqua Post
12. Bob Batz Jr. (March 5, 2016), "Let the sawdust fly — Chainsaw Rendezvous takes over Ridgway", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
13. Jason Smathers; Judy Halone (June 12, 2009), "Chainsaw artist carves out creations", Bonney Lake Courier-Herald
14. Angelo Bruscas (June 24, 2015), "North Beach chainsaw artist found his calling", The North Coast News, Ocean Shores, Washington
15. Jury, Mark R. (1999), Inventing Work in a Rural Community: Exploring the Social, Historical and Cultural Dimensions of School-to-work and Work-to-work Transitions, University of California, Berkeley, p. 108
16. "Sequim Irrigation Fest to showcase 121 years", Sequim Gazette, May 11, 2016
17. "On the road: Sand and Sawdust Festival", The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, June 15, 2016
18. Madeline McKenzie (September 22, 2005), "Nothing says fall like the whir of chainsaws", The Seattle Times
19. Matt Hoffman (August 9, 2012), The best in chainsaw carving flock to Carson Park for U.S. Open, WEAU News