Drive past Crookston High School today and you’ll see the city’s newest resident a nearly 50-foot-long, 8-foot-high snow dragon. Crookston High School Art teacher Gary Stegman, local artist Trey Everett, along with Everett’s son Jack and the help of Ray Shafer pushing snow, spent four hours Sunday creating the mythical beast that now lays at the entrance to the high school parking lot.
“Trey and I were visiting at Chalk It Up about a residency and Trey came back and said let’s make a snow sculpture,” said Stegman. “We made a boyhood dream.”
Everett got the idea after seeing a giant snow sculpture in Winnipeg. “I thought wow, that would be cool to do one here in Crookston,” said Everett. “My son, daughters and I try to build snow features in our yard each winter but nothing this big.”
It took three gallons of gas in the snow blower, saws, and shovels to create the base of the dragon. “Hopefully this is the first of more to come in the future,” said Everett. “I don’t know about this winter, but it’s a good tradition I think to start.”
The two artists were already talking continuations on the current structure including a possible tail if time and weather cooperate with keeping the snow dragon intact.
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