Snow Day
A guide for how to play in the snow
Snow Day is a public space for practicing winter.
Cold weather is not an obstacle, but a condition. Snow is not an absence of activity, it is a material. A surface. This installation acts as a guide for how to enter it.
Wood frames hold flexible bands of color suspended like thresholds, like weather made visible. They mark a temporary territory within the landscape: a room without walls, a playground without equipment, a public space without a program.
To use it:
- Walk through the color.
- Push the bands aside.
- Let them brush your coat, your gloves, your face.
- Sit in the snow.
- Stay longer than you planned.
- Let the cold reorganize your pace.
Winter often transforms public space into a zone of avoidance: movement becomes inefficient, bodies withdraw, time outside is minimized. We hope to interrupt this seasonal retreat.
- What happens when weather becomes the play surface?
- What if public space did not close for winter?
- What if discomfort could be reframed as curiosity?
Snow Day is temporary. It may be buried. It may freeze. It may bend, sag, or disappear after a storm.
Because a snow day is not a cancellation.
It is an opening.
A pause in routine.
An invitation to go outside anyway.
Dates Held
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Thursday, February 19, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Friday, February 20, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Monday, February 23, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Thursday, February 26, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Friday, February 27, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Monday, March 2, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Thursday, March 5, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Friday, March 6, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Monday, March 9, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Thursday, March 12, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Friday, March 13, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Monday, March 16, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
Thursday, March 19, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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MVR 1250 Gallery
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Human Centered Design