archiemcphee: For the last decade the frozen surface of a lake in Minnesota, “Land of 10,000 Lakes,”
archiemcphee: For the last decade the frozen surface of a lake in Minnesota, “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” has been transformed into a temporary community that combines the tradition of building ice shanties (also known as ice shacks) for ice fishing with public, interactive, community-built art. This program is called Art Shanty Projects and over 1,000 artists have participated and 60,000 people visited since the annual even began 10 winters ago. It feels like a wintry sibling of Burning Man, only smaller and much, much, much colder. Participating artists create all sorts of imaginative shanties, with designs including robots, animals, gigantic dice, and even a submarine that appeared to be frozen in the lake in the middle of surfacing from its depths. Inside each shanty the artists offer interactive activities: “…engaging the community in anything from knitting to science to karaoke. The broad and diverse audience includes lake residents, ice fisher people, suburbanites, city dwellers, fellow artists and passing snowmobilers. The On-Ice Program is typically open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays in late January / early February where the frozen surface of a Minnesota lake acts as host and backdrop to a wide range of actions, interventions, happenings, stories, songs, games and more.” Head over to WebUrbanist for more photos and video. Visit the Art Shanty Projects website for additional information. [via WebUrbanist] -- source link