{"id":459267,"date":"2026-02-10T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459267\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:05:11","slug":"artist-creates-mario-and-luigi-snow-sculpture-outside-of-golisano-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459267\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist creates Mario and Luigi snow sculpture outside of Golisano Children&#8217;s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 At Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital, an annual winter tradition is bringing big smiles to young patients.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s outdoor snow sculpture, created by artist Eric Jones, features Super Mario Bros characters Mario and Luigi. The sculpture is part of Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.<\/p>\n<p>The project was organized by the nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heartsforisabella\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heartsforisabella\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hearts for Isabella<\/a>, founded in memory of a child lost to a congenital heart defect.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal is to bring joy to kids watching from their hospital windows and raise awareness for congenital heart defects.<\/p>\n<p>See more photos of the sculpture below: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" data-id=\"1008408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-125555-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008408 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/573;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" data-id=\"1008409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-125657-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008409 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/574;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"1008410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-125848-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008410 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/571;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"1008411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-130407-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008411 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/571;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" data-id=\"1008412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-130450-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008412 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/570;\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/snow-sculpture\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snow sculpture<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/golisano-childrens-hospital\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golisano Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 At Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital, an annual winter tradition is bringing big smiles to young patients.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,214433,214432],"class_list":["post-459267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-golisano-childrens-hospital","tag-snow-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}