Photo: #Billed as the world's only Post Office on ice, the Art Post Shanty is the official mail service for the Art Shanty Project. Visitors can make a postcard to send from the ice or send mail to be delivered to another shanty.
Photo: #This shanty features a working sauna.
Photo: #To keep warm (and have fun) a conga line regularly snakes around the shanties on the lake.
Photo: #The Confession Shanty invites visitors to unburden themselves by writing their confessions on little slips of paper.

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Last chance to check out the Art Shanty Projects

by Jessica Mador, Minnesota Public Radio,
Tom Weber, Minnesota Public Radio
February 9, 2009

Inspired by traditional ice fishing shacks, the Art Shanty Projects are out on Medicine Lake for five weeks of art, performance, architecture, science and more.

Plymouth, Minn. — Founders Peter Haakon Thompson and David Pitman say the aim of the project is for artists to take their work outside the gallery and into the community.

This year, more than 20 artists built themed shanties on the Plymouth lake. Highlights include performances at the Black Box Theater Shanty and singing at the Karaoke Shanty.

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