Snow Survey Cabin Residency
Two natural historians each year, immersed in the Snowy Range — making work that tells the stories of local ecologies and the people who study them. Slow work. Quiet work.
Images and field notes from our inaugural resident, Sarah Frary.
A cabin built to watch winter
Tucked into the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, the Snow Survey Cabin was built for exactly one purpose: watching the snowpack that becomes Wyoming's water. Each year, the residency hands that purpose to two natural historians, who spend their time observing, recording, and making work alongside the ecologies and the researchers who study them.
There is no public program to produce, no opening night. The residency is built around solitude and pace — time enough to notice what a season is actually doing, and to make something honest out of that noticing.
The work that comes out of the cabin varies year to year, but it shares a register: unhurried, attentive, rooted in a specific patch of high-elevation ground.
