Formline Tlingit artist Megan Jensen makes her biggest work to date, on a frozen lake

The Emily Carr University grad took thousands of steps in snowshoes for the outdoor installation

The short film “Art Show of Winter” features Megan Jensen.

IN HER TELLING of a traditional tale to welcome the light after a long winter, Formline Tlingit artist Megan Jensen recently created her largest art installation to date: a 1.62-acre Raven measuring 300 feet in diameter made of snowshoe prints atop a snowy, frozen lake.

A member of Dakhká Khwáan Dancers and graduate of Emily Carr University, Jensen worked with Travel Yukon to celebrate the change of seasons in collaboration with filmmakers from TSU North and Vancouver-based creative agency Cossette. A cinematic short film, “Art Show of Winter”, captures her narrating the Tlingit story of how Raven brought light to the world and features aerial footage of the creation of her epic outdoor work.

Jensen created the Raven design on a lake within the traditional territories of the Carcross Tagish and Kwanlin Dün First Nations and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. The film crew captured her creative proceess over 60 drone flights—and a total of 15,400 steps and 11 hours.

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