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.
