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A person rides a bike on the ice. the bike has wings that look like a monarch butterfly.

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2022 OVERVIEW
2022 ARTIST PROJECTS
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2022 OVERVIEW
2022 ARTIST PROJECTS
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2022 Artist Projects

A drawing of a cube shaped shanty under a blue sky

As Seen From Below

Photo of a person painting at an easel outside in the snow

Color Harmony by Winter Plein Air Painters

a photo of an oyster mushroom with a drawing of people and a speech bubble with the words: 'we have no healing powers'

Fake Healing

a performer with outstretched arms wears a giant costume of plastic

Fashion Disasters

three friends lay and play in the snow in their secondhand winter wear.

Free Store Shanty

Frigid Airs

A person with dark skin and long locs stands under falling snow with their hands in prayer position.

fro-gahhh: yoga for the planet and the people

A computer drawing of a triangular -shaped hallway. The words 'Hearsee Hall' appear above it.

HearSee Hall Shanty

Two actors onstage hold umbrellas with black and white swirling designs. A cityscape backdrop is behind them.

Hou(se) the Weather?

Arms with orange soft scupture hands reach towards puzzle pieces on a table

How To Move With Wonder

A wintery scene of a tiny elf house nestled into the snow.

Huldufólk Hall Village

two adults and a kid, all in snowsuits, pose with a dozen hula hoops

Ice Flow Arts for All!

a digital rendering of a pink sculpture with many legs and arches.

Introspective Monument

A person in an icy blue costume guides a giant polar bear puppet across a frozen lake

LADY BEAR RETURNS!

A yellow arched structure is featured in the shanty village on a snowy day

Linden Hills Neighborhood Shanty

Poetry Wall

A photo of people wearing colorful insect costumes dancing on a frozen lake

Pollinator Flash Mob

Prairie Fire Lady Choir

an illustration of a red shanty with the words 'reduce, reuse, rage' in black lettering on the side.

Reduce, Reuse, Rage

An image of a row of winter safety parkas with furry hoods in oranges and reds

Ripple

A model of a shanty that looks like an amp. it has silver stars on the side, big knobs on the front under the words 'roc box'

Rock Box

A skater glides across the frozen lake on one leg with arms outstretched at sunset.

Skate the Village

Taiko Arts Midwest

A drawing of several small groups of people weaving at upright frames on a frozen lake.

Texture Garden

A group of people play lacrosse in silhouette on a frozen lake.

Thakápsičapi

A drawing of a giant crystal hovering over a cityscape, reflected below underneath a frozen lake.

The Amermanaughti

A drawing of three hexagonal garden beds containing grasses and four benches.

The Garden Under Your Breath

A performer in a white glacier costume smiles for the camera.

The Goddess of the Glaciers

A view of yellow flowers and green leaves from inside a mirrored kaleidoscope.

The Institute for Perpetual Unfolding

a drawing of a colorful shanty with many doors and pennant flags fluttering above it.

The Portals

A sea of yellow and white ceramic flowers in a grassy field

The Rainflower Project

Vertical stripes of blue reveal an image of a clocktower.

The Tick-Tock Shanty (The Shanty Where We Waste Time)

Smiling man stands in front of the Welcome Shanty with snow falling

The Welcome Shanty

a group of people ride down the street in a three piece wearable art car

The World’s Only Wearable ArtCar + ArtBike Parade on Ice

a graphic with two smiling people dressed as referees underneath waste bins. Letters read "Trash-Ket-ball!"

Trash-ket Ball

a drawing of a bundled-up person holding a giant red cardinal bird puppet above their head.

Winter Birds of Minnesota

an illustration of instruments floating around puffy words that read 'Art of Xanadu - Xanadu Dreams - curated by Riza A. Shahid'

Xanadu Dreams

CONTACT INFO:

Art Shanty Projects
PO Box 18684, Minneapolis, MN 55418
612-567-6844

Sponsorship & General inquiries: info@artshantyprojects.org

Artist, Programming & Press inquiries: program@artshantyprojects.org

With support from:

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department.

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