2nd Annual Shhh-anty (Silent) Auction
Art Shanty Projects presents the 2nd Annual Shhh-anty (Silent) Auction!
Art Shanty Projects is proud to bring you our Summer 2025 Silent Auction--our Shhh-anty Auction! Check out the super cool stuff, services, and experiences we have from our wonderful, winter-loving, artists and community partners!
Whether or not you win, please come to our Summer Snow-cial at Sociable Cider Werks. We'll have Sno-cones, screen printing, and a lot of summer fun to go around.
About Art Shanty Projects:
Since 2004 Art Shanty Projects has created whimsical, weird and joyful winter art experiences for grown adults and kids of all ages. Inspired by pop-up ice fishing villages, artists use the frozen lake as a public platform to create a temporary, interactive community. With few regulations and no building codes – and against intense and unpredictable winter weather conditions – artists have the freedom and challenge to create wild and wonderful work that can’t be experienced anywhere else. Together, with our visitors, we celebrate, champion, and embrace the extreme winter sport of art making. And, to answer everyone’s #1 question: Nope! We do not fish in our shanties. You’d need a license for that!
Art Shanty Projects is (usually, with conditions in our favor) a four-weekend, winter art program attracting over 27,000 annual visitors of all ages to explore interactive public art in an extreme environment. ~40 artist teams are given stipends to use the frozen lake as a public platform to create and present interactive art shanty installations and a rotating schedule of daily performances. Visitors can ride bicycles decorated like butterflies, peer through a huge kaleidoscope, write a love letter to a park, or climb inside a giant bird house.
Mission: Art Shanty Projects intentionally creates an impermanent art village on Minnesota lake ice amid changing climate and environment. With a spirit of embracing challenges through creativity, we support an ecosystem that inspires everyone to create and participate in art, thrive in winter, and build community.
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