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A smiling person in a safety vest and mask looks through a yellow paned window.

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2023 OVERVIEW
2023 ARTIST PROJECTS
2023 SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES + ART ACTIONS

2023 OVERVIEW
2023 ARTIST PROJECTS
2023 SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES + ART ACTIONS

2023 Artist Projects

A rendering of an orb handing inside of a pyramid structure. Words read "2023 #orbforpeace prototype"

#OrbForPeace

a black bacground with a white line drawing of a hexagonal object with holes in one side.

Archive of Collective Memory

Art of Expression

a photo of a freshly painted white bedroom set

Blankets of Ice

A digital image of an old school boom box with a tape deck in the center of two round speakers

Booom Box

A drawing of a chapel shaped like chapstick tubes with a rainbow holding up one side.

Chapsicle of Love

Climate Walk on Ice

a colorful illustration of a person approaching a house-shaped cabinet structure. A rock pile rests in front.

Curious Cairns

A person hangs up a hat on a clothesline at the Free Store Shanty

Free Store Shanty

Frigid Airs

A yoga instructor is in silhouette on the sunny frozen landscape. They wear big boots and shorts while facing their class.

fro-gahhh: yoga for the planet and the people

A marker drawing of a wooden structure with vibrant flowers hanging from top to bottom.

Gewächshaus

Two people hold a large soft sculpture around them, as if hugging.

How To Move With Wonder

A group of performers wave colorful fabric in the air. A huge pile of hula hoops rests in front of them on the frozen lake.

Hula Hoop Hoopla!

Sunlight shines through a series of ice sculptures. Blue skies in the background.

Ice Garden

A group of ice skaters wearing black with colorful legwarmers and berets pose mid-performance with onlookers behind them

ICE. COLD. JAZZ!

Live musicians play for a group of people dancing in a circle. Big colorful murals are in the background of the outdoor scene.

Klezmer on Ice

A life size polar bear puppet walks through the art shanty gate

LADY BEAR EXPLORES the ART SHANTY VILLAGE

Latins on Ice

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

Linden Hills Neighborhood Shanty

A marker drawn illustration of a unicorn and a phoenix. Words read 'live your dreams at the zoo!"

Magical Menagerie

A bold black ink drawing on a white background of a tree, its roots below, and music notes floating in the sky.

Meditation Garden

a front view of a stage model. It has red beams, a white platform and benches, and yellow flage.

Performance Stage

A group of adults pose in their vibrant pollinator costumes on the frozen lake.

Pollinator Frenzy

A choir poses inside a building. They wear reds, oranges and yellows.

Prairie Fire Lady Choir

fire burning inside a box peeks through four vertical rectangular openings

re(center)ed

A collage of various whimsical coats, pods, and sculptures in a row.

Ripple

A cartoon person holds a magnifying glass up to their eye. The shanty village on the frozen lake is in the distance.

Scavenger Hunt

A gnome figure with a bronze pointy hat looks at themself in the mirror. Words on their reflection read 'reflect (on) yourself'

Self Reflection Shanty

A blue and white snowy graphic that reads 'Subzero Singalong with Good Trouble, Conie and LIz. We know you want to sing snow shanties!' An image of their smiling faces is at the right.

Subzero Singalong: Community Sing on Ice! (with Good Trouble)

A person on a small stage animatedly leads a group sitting in the theatre seats in song. Puppets adorn the walls.

Subzero Singalong: Community Sing on Ice! (with Sarina Partridge)

A person holds their arm at a distance, ready to strike a large drum

Taiko on Ice

A black and white line drawing of a shanty showing solar power, people in mittens, and a modular synthesizer

Techno From The Sun

Four people pose holding traditional wooden lacrosse sticks

Thakápsičapi

A plein air painting station is set up on a frozen lake with the shanty being painted in the distance.

The Color of Winter

A digital drawing of an angled mustard yellow structure with many blue doors. It sits on a snowy frozen landscape.

Tiny Treasure House

A line of people wearing colorful cardboard art cars parade across a white frozen scene.

Wearable ArtCars & Contraptions Parade

A person in a shantastic getup of fur, goggles, flowers and such, stands in front of the welcome shanty

Welcome Shanty

A play in action on the frozen lake! Performers are dressed in black and red against a pink backdrop shanty.

Whether We Will Weather the Weather

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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