Art Shanty Projects

This a thank you to our funders and the people who have helped with Art Shanty Projects 2008.

Thank you to the Soap Factory for their uncanny level of support. We would like to thank the Mcknight Foundation for their continued support and MRAC (Minnesota Regional Arts Council) for their support as well as holding the Strategic Planning Peer Learning Group which has made the year run more smoothly. Thank you to the Hennepin County Water Patrol for the on going support and willingness to work with our project. Our partnership with MNArtists.org has helped produce some of the most interesting programming on a frozen lake in a very long while, thank you. Thanks to Jan Bekman Gallery for picking picking us to raise funds for. Thanks to the many people who have given to the pledge drive, you have inspired it to keep going. Thank you to the Walker Art Center for including us in the first free Saturday program and bussing people to the lake and back.

A special thanks goes to the people behind the scenes who have helped make this years project grow and develop. Emmet Bryne for being the postcard, buttons and t-shirt designs this year and for the past few years. Karen Heidi for the help they have given helping us find loose ends from years past. Nate Flink and Bryan Kennedy for the design and help with the website. Mike Tincher for all his work on the ARP! insert and the weekly inserts.Tou Cha for the drawings of the shanties. Cynthia Lapp and Sam Morrison for the editing of the writing.

 
Peter and I would like to also thank the artists, all of you for all the hard work you have done to really make this project what it is. Also we would like to thank the public for your curiosity and willingness to make the trek  out to the ice not matter how far we are from the shore.

Finally we would like to extend a thank you to the cold and the weather for their part in making the project work this year. And the biggest thank you goes to Medicine Lake, that funny shaped body of water below us who's ice supports the whole project.

Jen Bekman Gallery is offering this photo up for a fundraiser for the Art Shanty Projects 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Ice, by Tema Stauffer

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Art Shanty Edition by Tema Stauffer
Due to severe flu conditions at 20x200 World HQ (ie: my couch), typing a coherent newsletter yesterday was deemed impossible. I'm slightly more with it today, but advance blame for typos and imprecise language goes to Nyquil. This week's photography edition comes to us from 20x200 artist Tema Stauffer and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the super-cool Art Shanty Projects.
White Ice is printed with archival inks on a substantial 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish. As always, the edition is available in three sizes:
8.5"x11"
Edition of 200 $20/each
17"x22"
Edition of 20 $200/each
30"x40"
Edition of 2 $2000/each
The fifth season of Art Shanty Projects opens this Saturday on Medicine Lake in frosty (2°F!) Plymouth , MN. Founded by Peter Haakon Thompson and David Pitman. Peter was my Minneapolis host and tour-guide when I visited just before Christmas.
Everywhere we went, people were talking about their Shanty preparations. There was much speculation about the thickness of the ice, chatter about building materials and heated discussions about propane. At an art event we attended I had a long conversation about the potential benefits of baked potatoes, both as heat source and sustenance. By the end of my weekend, I was contemplating sleeping bag snowsuits, justifying the purchase of mukluks and planning a mid-February trip so I could have the Art Shanty Experience firsthand.
The Shanties engage in arty ideas in disarmingly unpretentious ways - interacting with the environment is inevitable, and its novelty engages all kinds of people in art. The community it fosters is vibrant and active, just at a time when creatures are supposed to be crawling into their caves and hibernating. It's art for everyone (you know I'm a fan!) in a public realm.
Today's edition is a trophy of Tema's from the 2005 season of Art Shanty Projects*, which I exhibited at one of the gallery's Pin-Up Shows later that same year. After the show, the print got tucked away in a flat file, but it's a photo I've thought of often, which is pretty unusual for me - I sift through loads of images all the time, which doesn't give any specific one much opportunity to take hold. This picture did though; it's oddness, color and geometry lodged in my memory.
And now, my friends, I bid you adieu till next week. The clock is ticking down to my next Nyquil dose and the cozy couch beckons.
*The 2008 Art Shanty Projects' Flickr stream has more representational photos of this year's shanties, and here's a clip of some Art Shanty shenanigans.

8 Shanties were installed. We are out in the lake about 100 yards north west of the parking lot. Gearing up for the up coming weekend. Great work.

 

first shanty out: The Science Shanty was the first one out on the ice this year a large group of them came out and set it up. They have made posters this year for the inside to explain what is going on in the lake.

10 - 12 inches has been reported and confirmed.

Water Patrol has given the go ahead to install on the ice out away from the shore.

Read this whole email please.
Ok. Here is the deal.
1. The ice is thick enough for us to be out on the lake.
For the first time in 2 years we will be off the shoreline.
This means we can drive on the lake. Please pay attention to number 2
2. During the install do not drive rented or large trucks and trailers onto the ice. Questions please ask before you drive out. Park in the palring lot at the south end of the Lake where we have been and load onto ice from there.
Assembled shanties can be towed out farther on the lake from there.
If you have full size truck or smaller then you may drive out on to lake with shanties.
Please pay attention to number 3
3. When you enter the lake please enter off of W. Medicine Lake Rd and the West entrance to the lake.
Take 394 to 55 west at 3rd stop light go right on W. Medicine Lake road go through a stop sign until you come to the lake and a parking lot entrance is there.
Drive around peninsula to the ASP. Take off seat belt and roll window down when driving on the lake. (seriously)
DO NOT DRIVE OVER THE BEACH from the parking lot! There is another entrance near the parking lot.
It is a private entrance. We ask that you not use this entrance. For the project park in the parking lot and use the ARTCAR TAXIs to get to the shanties. Or drive on from the West entrance. We would like to avoid too much parking around the project. That is what the Art Car taxi's are for.

Please wait until the Water Patrol has gotten back to us before installing projects on the ice. Seriously. Thank you David and Peter
Click me for actual visual ice report. 

We received 36 proposals. The Jury this weekend whittled it down to 20.

Pending emails to the submissions we will be posting the new artist on the 17th.

Thanks to all the proposals. Please open your freezers and put your air conditioners in facing out. This will help with the ice production on the lake.

K-ICE is hosting a pledge drive for Art Shanty Project 2008.
We are raising money to increase the budget of the project and ultimately give each residency more money.
All donations are tax deductible. (made to Intermedia Arts one of our partners)

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There are many gifts for the generous. From buttons and t-shirts to nights out on the ice.

Please pledge our support for Art Shanty Projects and help build our budget.

 

For information please email us at: info@artshantyprojects.org

The Norea Shanty met the Soft Shop in the Second City for the third appearance at Chicago's Version 07 Info Expo. Thanks EdMar and all the Chicago masters of ceremony.Version 07.1version 07.2

emptyThe ice is being cleared. The project is done. We would like to thank everyone who worked so hard to make this year awesome. We would also like to thank all the people who came out and visited the project. Thank you.

singing bikers 2Last night the ice was descended upon by a hearty biker group. Not motor bikers, though that might have been interesting. A bike club road their Bicycles from 33rd and Lyndale, where Cars are Coffins coffee shop is located. They gave updates along the way. Finally arriving in force out on the ice around 8. Paul, had chili and beverages he brought out earlier. The beverages were stored in a cooler to keep them from freezing, the chili with cheese and cheese-it was cooked on his new double burner stove. (Next week, prime rib and Cheese-its?)