Part art gallery, part residency, and part social experiment, the Art Shanty Projects takes its inspiration from a beloved Minnesota tradition: ice fishing.
The acclaimed Art Shanty Projects is back on the ice for a fabulous sixth year. During the months of January and February, over 60 artists from Minnesota and around the country will head out to Medicine Lake to create a village of Art Shanties (Ice Fishing Shanty + Art Gallery/Studio).
Artist projects this year include a karaoke shanty, a performance theater, a structure full of bicycle-powered fixtures, a knitting shanty, a French-language Quebecois outpost, a post office, a submarine, an oversized game of dice, multiple museums and research laboratories with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheekiness, and much more.