All 10 of the Fair’s dairy princess finalists get a likeness of their heads carved before an ever-changing live audience.

Video. Malorie Thorson braved a chilled booth as sculptor Gerry Kulzer carved her likeness from a 41-kilogram block of butter ...

It's an honor Gerry Kulzer doesn't take for granted. "A lot of pressure," he said Thursday, at the start of the 2022 fair. "You've got to get a portrait of a person done in two days." ...

He was enamored. Gerry Kulzer carves out of butter Emma Kuball, the 2023 Princess Kay of the Milky Way portrait, during the Minnesota State Fair.

“This,” of course, is Kulzer’s part-time gig as the butter sculptor at the Minnesota State Fair, where he transforms 90-pound blocks of butter into likenesses of Princess Kay of the Milky ...

He was enamored. Gerry Kulzer carves out of butter Emma Kuball, the 2023 Princess Kay of the Milky Way portrait, during the Minnesota State Fair.

Sculptor Gerry Kulzer carves the likeness of Malorie Thorson, out of a block of butter at the Minnesota State Fair, Thursday, ...

While the Minnesota State Fair is canceled, some traditions of the Great Minnesota Get-Together will continue. Litchfield artist Gerry Kulzer will be carving the Princess Kay butter sculptures ...

As the rest of Minnesota prepares for warm summer days at the State Fair, Gerry Kulzer is preparing his parka, gloves, and carving tools. He’ll be spending the fair in a 40-degree cooler ...

ST. PAUL -- As the rest of Minnesota prepared for two weeks in the sun at the State Fair, Gerry Kulzer was preparing his parka, gloves and carving tools. He’s spending the fair in a 40-degree ...

Gerry Kulzer, an art teacher and sculptor, practices with clay ahead of the Minnesota State Fair, where he’ll be the new resident butter sculptor, in his studio in Litchfield, Minn., Aug. 14, 2022.

Linda Christensen, who lives in California, has been the fair's butter sculptor for 48 years, The Takeout reported. Unable to travel to Minnesota, her apprentice Gerry Kulzer, who lives in ...