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Artist Archive

  • The Thwing

  • Mapping Prejudice

  • The Welcome Shanty

  • Fyr Minnesåta

  • An illustration of a human figure, standing inside the can-shaped Opticon Shanty, with a ramp, windows, and a periscope.

    Opticon

  • Photo of shelves of political candidates as hand-drawn knockdown toys with a bowl of lemons.

    Step Right Up! Voting Booth

  • Tonya and Nancy: The Opera

  • Close up teal camper van labeled "Minne Sauna" in huge bubbly letters painted grapey purple colors.

    MinneSauna

  • A few people stand, studying the yellow Linden Hills Neighborhood Shanty, in front of the Lake Harriet Bandshell. The yellow shanty is open and airy, and historic photographs of the neighborhood are hung on the open walls.

    Linden Hills Neighborhood Shanty

  • White line drawing on black background of 2 structures- one with arches, one wtih steps

    Temple of Agency

  • Wish Factory

  • Photo of a person with orange flowers, orange headpiece and orange background

    LeadFoot To The Xanadu

  • Fire and Ice: A Winter Flamenco Odyssey 

  • Energetic Tea Time

  • The Tomb of the Unknown Minnow

  • A drawing of two hands loosely cupped together open. The drawing is in a circle.

    The Archive of Apologies and Pardons

  • Stayin’ Alive

  • a shanty with black walls, white stars, and a red door mimics the First Avenue's 7th Street Entry, with a stanchion out on the snowy ground.

    -7° Entry Danceteria

  • The Notary Shanty

  • Belozer’e

  • An illustration depicts a figure in a coat and overalls, kneeling in a pale green grid, with an enormous needle in one hand. A few coniferous saplings sprout through the grid, too. The entire image is overlaid with a pale photograph of light filtering through tree branches.

    Flora Sauna

  • Photo of a large group of women wearing fiery colors.

    Prairie Fire Lady Choir

  • 2 Penguins in infrared with "infrare" written between them.

    Infrare

  • The Lonely Whale Shanty

  • Outdoor Painters of Minnesota

  • The GIANT Frame Photo Guestbook

  • Outside the wildflower muraled Pollinator Shanty, a single person looks at the flock of monarch winged art bikes. The sky is light blue, with puffy white clouds.

    Pollinator Shanty

  • Many people in long dresses with full sleeves raise their heads up, dancing and maybe singing. They are all wearing headscarves. An audience watches from the museum's balcony above.

    Nitka

  • Three illustrations of a shanty, with saturated green, blue, and red blocks on one, a prism on one, and small red, blue, and green dots on the last.

    Spectra Gigs

  • Marker drawing of a camper van with colorful pennants and "The Shanty of People Who Know Things" on it.

    The Shanty of People Who Know Things

  • Human-Sized Hamster Wheel

  • People stand on the frozen ice outside of a yellow shanty with windows shaped like lakes

    10,000 Lakes Twister

  • Monarch Butterfly Migration Shanty

  • Get in Feel with your Touchings

  • Three rectangles in various shades of blue, and one white rectangle, with sets of five horizontal black lines and diagonal black lines.

    Franconia Flash

  • A digital collage, a metallic golden sun's hollow center reveals an infinity symbol. Underneath, a cracked ice sheet separates a stranded houseboat and the words "Nauticult: A Cautionary Tale". Gold lines like a topographical map run faintly in the background.

    Nauticult: A Cautionary Tale

  • Why Not Knit!

  • On a saturated orange-red background, cartoon POW-style explosion with the words "shantastic tours!" written inside.

    Shantastic Tours!

  • Drawing of a star-shaped structure with colorful dots on a side

    Star Light, Star Bright Shanty

  • Smiling and laughing people crowded around tiny art cars on the snow- a child in a cat hat kneels, still dwarfing a purple car, the Mars rover, and a car with a babydoll head atop it.

    The World’s Only Tiny ArtCar Parade on ICE!

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CONTACT INFO:

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

Artist & Press inquiries: program@artshantyprojects.org

Sponsorship & General inquiries: info@artshantyprojects.org

With support from:

logos for metro reginoal arts council, the land and legacy amendment, and the city of minneapolis artis and cultural affairs
a logo for Meet Minneapolis City by Nature
a logo for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts which has his picture and signature

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.

This event is supported by the Meet Minneapolis Community Events Assistance Program.

Major support for Art Shanty Projects is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

 

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