Soap Factory
518 2nd St. SE
Minneapolis MN
The Soap Factory Presents
Art Shanty Projects
Medicine Lake, Plymouth, MN
Open daily with events on weekends and occasional weekdays. // Exhibition Runs: Jan 17 - Feb 14, 2009
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.
See website for updated events schedule!
Visitors can park at the East Beach parking lot at Medicine Lake. The Art Car Taxi Shanty provides transportation from the shore to the middle of the lake, where visitors can meet the artists, explore the shanties and experience this unique interpretation of a true piece of Minnesota winter culture.
Presented by the Soap Factory this activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by The McKnight Foundation and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.
[text and photography from Soap Factory Web site.]
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