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We’ve been to the Art Shanty Projects at least four different years and each time loved it. Although there is a suggested donation of $10-20 per person nobody will be turned away.
If the Art Shanty Projects is a prefab city on a rock-hard lake, then the gregarious Peter Haakon Thompson is its de facto mayor.. After all, he and Soap Factory installation manager/city planner ...
The Art Shanty Projects, an annual event that simultaneously showcases Minnesota's resilient arts community and love of winter, is returning in January. (And, fair enough, we'll call it a love ...
The Art Shanty Projects began in 2004 and called Plymouth’s Medicine Lake home until 2012. In 2014, it relocated to White Bear Lake for a couple of years and then moved to Lake Harriet (Bde Unma).
Art Shanty Projects artistic director Erin Lavelle says that after the pandemic canceled the 2021 event, 40 artists met to talk about how the festivities could be COVID-safe this year.
In 2021, the nonprofit behind the Art Shanty Projects rewrote its mission to include climate change. This year’s huts are spread across the ice in the shape of an hourglass, ...
The Art Shanty Project will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the three weekends it is open. It is free to attend, but donations at the entrance are welcome and part of how they raise their ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- The Art Shanty Projects are a village of shanties inspired by ice fishing houses. "We call it the extreme winter sport of art-making," Erin Lavelle, the Artistic Director ...
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The Art Shanty Projects were supposed to open this weekend on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, but the display has been delayed a week in hopes the ice will soon be thick enough to create the ...
The Art Shanty Projects, an annual event that simultaneously showcases Minnesota's resilient arts community and love of winter, is returning in January. (And, fair enough, we'll call it a love ...
The Art Shanty Projects, which usually puts art installations inside small, fishhouse-like structures on a frozen Twin Cities lake every winter, will move the art to outside the shanties.