Meet our 2025 artists & performers!
Reflections of an art bike and the frozen Medicine Lake, Art Shanty Projects 2012. Photo: Max Haynes
Art Shanty Projects is returning to Bdé Umáŋ / Lake Harriet in South Minneapolis January 18 – February 9, 2025 (with a Plan Beach and a new Plan C in place, just in case).
Whether you’re one of the lucky 10,000 people who made it out during our only weekend last year – or were bummed to miss out – WE GOT YOU! Some shanties & performances are back! We have many new projects too! Either way, we think you’ll be sonically satisfied, visually dazzled and delighted by our own unique way of celebrating winter together.
We are thrilled to introduce the artists listed below!
Check out the program overview and individual project pages for deeper details, and check back later for amenities, schedule, map and more before we hit the ice!
SHANTIES
Promo images for two NEW shanties from NEW artists this year: Opening the Black Box of Winter and The Sync Hole. Photos courtesy the artists
Art Shanty #1
Original concept & design: Peter Haakon Thompson & David Pitman. 2024 builders: Anthony Chapin & Richard Parnell. 2025 artist activators include a rotating list of special guests, to be announced!
Banned Book Reading Room
Jerry Carlson, Cyrus Carlson, Rachel Coyne
Cat World
Eva Adderley, Dan DeMarco
Close-Knit Pavilion
Sara Powers, Amelia Rosenbush, Kate Zimmerman
Crankie Cabin
Olli Johnson and Pete Talbot
Dr. GOONS Miracle Elixirs
Vicky Eidelsztein, Francis Pineda-Fischer, Matt Litwin
Free Store Shanty
Shanty Friends Supergroup
Hot Box: Disco Inferno II
Joe Fagerhaugh, Jei Herald-Zamora, Nick Knutson
NatureGrafter
Robin Garwood and Samantha Price
Northern Star Film Studio
Greg Bates, Roxie Black, Sam Granun, Shannon Troy Jones, Michael LoPresti
Opening the Black Box of Winter
Alia Benedict, Drew Check, Ted Ozersky, and Catherine Polik (from UMN-Duluth and UMN-Twin Cities)
Performance Stage
Designed by Richard Parnell with build support from Anthony Chapin and Louis Kaufman. Featuring a rotating list of performers!
A Poem for Entangled Living
Spill Paint Not Oil
Policy Party
Met Council Art + Policy Team
Reduce Reuse Re-Xylophone
Mady Gulon, Marshall King, Jakob Mahla, Derek Ronding
The Sync Hole
Beth Derenne, Greg Hines, Sam Johnson, Jeffry Lusiak, Theresa Madaus, Jeffrey Wells, Max Wirsing
Time. Light. Color.
Alan Berg, Elisabeth Farrell, Ian Nystrom
Visible
Jayson Randall
Welcome Shanty
Designed and constructed by students at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. Remodeled and staffed by the board members of Art Shanty Projects.
Wicked Winter
Angela North, Aaron Prust, Clara Schiller, Emily Heller, Sarah Honeywell
PERFORMANCES & ART ACTIONS
Two returning projects include B-Icicle Race (a classic from MANY years ago on Medicine Lake) and Klezmer on Ice. Photos courtesy Max Haynes and the artists
B-Icicle Race
Jan Elftmann, Greg Leierwood, Cassandra Monson, David Pitman, Mitch Redepenning
Community Sing on Ice
Sarina Partridge
fro-gahhh: yoga for the planet and the people
James Orione
Ice Pirate Radio
Sebura&Gartelmann
Klezmer on Ice
Anthony Abdul, Bob Barnes, rafa kern, Sarah Larsson, Daniel Lentz, Or Levinson, Caleb Likely, Pat O’Keefe, Josh Rosard, Pat O’Keefe, Greg Schweser, Di Bayke Klezmer Band
Ladies of the Lost Continent
Monica Rojas
Lady Bear Celebrates 10 Years at Art Shanties
Tony Chapin, Kim Ford, Meagan Juedes, Merrill Stringer, Robert Werling, Sherry Zimmermann
Mishmash Mishegoss
Felicia Cooper, Jax Mercogliano, Lior Perlmuter
Mr. Shim on Ice
Jennings Mergenthal
OPM’s Winter Plein Air Painters
Winter Plein Air Painters from Outdoor Painters of Minnesota
Past, Presence, Future
Jäc Miller, scottie hall
Pollinator Frenzy
Terry McDaniel and the Minnesota Pollinators: Jan Elftmann, Carrie Finnigan, Mary Sue Hannen, Teri Joyce, Ellie Kingsbury, Annie Madryga, Louise McDonald, Catherine McKee, Mary Ann Meyer, Richard Parnell, Barb Rielly and Shanan Tolzin.
Prairie Fire Choir
Prairie Fire Choir
Queer Puppet Clash Presents: BATTLE FOR THE EGG
Abby Arbeiter, Maggie Arbeiter, Roger Easthouse, Max Friedman, Alec Gaige, Mad Radke, and Fletcher Wolfe
Taiko on Ice
TaikoArts Midwest: Ensō Daiko
Thakápsičapi
Twin Cities Native Lacrosse
Three Ring Goose Circus
Three Ring Goose Circus
Weather or Not
snem DeSellier, onionn
Where Do Pigeons Go in Winter?
Artists: Mary Jo Nikolai, plus Zarra TM, Eva Cone Adderley Performers: Maggie Arbeiter, Lelis Brito, Esther Cervantes, Josh Conway, Seth Eberle, Kevin Ely, Elizabeth Giffin, Patty Gille, Terry McDaniel, Kayla Nussbaum, Mary Jo Nikolai, Zara TM. Engineering consult: Willis Bowman
Winter Life Outta Sight
Will Bjorndal & Associates
And a few more coming soon…
Promo images for Where Do Pigeons Go in Winter? (NEW this year!) and Past, Presence, Future (which was slated for 2024 but didn’t happen due to the early closure). Photos courtesy the artists
