The long-running Art Shanty Projects take over frozen Lake Harriet in Minneapolis beginning Saturday.
A total of 21 icehouses will offer art projects. Visitors can journey into the belly of a whale in artist Giuliana Pinto's Lonely Whale Shanty. Artists Anne Grinager and Sami Pfeffer take it lo-fi in the Phone Valet Shanty, where visitors are encouraged to leave their smartphones and pick up analog "apps," like hand-drawn maps.
More than 20 performing artists will brave the cold to do their thing on the lake, too: On Saturday, the Future's artist-in-residence Mr. Elvis leads "Homos in Herstory," a queer quiz; next weekend, visitors can spin on Willis Bowman and Karen Haselmann's Human-Sized Hamster Wheel.
It's all free, and you can download bus passes to get there at artshantyprojects.org.
(10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. through Feb. 11, Lake Harriet, Mpls. Access from parking lot on the lake's north side.)
Alicia Eler is the Star Tribune's visual art reporter and critic, and author of the book “The Selfie Generation. | Pronouns: she/they ”
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