It remains a challenge to integrate "Snow" into the various cultural norms. I think that these two organizations have an approach that may lead to more successes:
https://www.sharewinterfoundation.org/
The National Winter Activity Center is a dedicated environment that will be the home for the Ted Ligety Learn to Ski and the Nordic Rocks programs for the New York, New Jersey areas. It will provide more then 6,000 youth annually with continuous access to an environment that provides for skill...
winter4kids.org
My personal story of exposure has been that I was always drawn to snow & ice. I wrote graffiti as a kid growing up in the South Bronx. Graffiti was HUGE in my neighborhood. But it was more of the illegal kind covering the inner city metros. I have no idea how I missed getting arrested .... more times than I can count. We looked up to the "fathers" of modern graffiti living near us. Names like "Stay High", "FDT" (Everyone always wondered what that meant..... just his initials! LOL) , "Hoy" ( A White guy!!! LOL), LSD, CLYDE.... and many others. My written name was an indication of my future relationship w/ skiing.... "ICE 151"
Nowadays these original "Pieces" ( DEF NOT MINE LOL ) would be on par w/ Banksy and worth thousands if not millions of dollars. Historically, Prof. Greg Carr African American studies professor from Howard described our art form as culturally descendent from the Egyptian cultural need for hieroglyphics. It's an existential form of self expression that defies law, and boundaries. It was our "Calling" and a means to push the artistic envelope.
Graffiti is an artform that has progressed far beyond where I could ever imagine. A friend took these pics for me and gave them to me mounted for my birthday. This is w/in the past decade from the UK, Brick Lane area over in London. Notice the one piece....... from our direction it says "STAR", from theirs inside the pic "RATS" ... interesting commentary...