Southwest Art Class and the 2014 Art Shanty Project Feb.1 through 23 on White Bear Lake

 

ON White Bear Lake - weekends - Feb. 1 through the 23rd. 

 

 

Southwest Art teacher Cecily Spano provides another great and unique venue for her classes.  Students planned and prepared the Art Shanty for display and performance.  Students, staff and families will be working at the event each weekend.

 

The 2014 Art Shanty Projects run from Saturday, February 1 through Sunday, February 23 on White Bear Lake in White Bear Lake, MN.

Hours: 10 am – 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Warming House hosted by the White Bear Lake Center for the Arts from 3pm – 5pm Saturdays and Sunday’s throughout the project except Saturday February 22nd and Sunday February 23rd.

Speak Your Truth/ This I Believe Shanty

Cecily Spano and staff, parents, and students from Southwest High School

Work with spoken word artists to “Speak Your Truth” through a giant megaphone inspired sound system. Write down what you hear on the blackboard outside the shanty and listen for the poetry in truth.

Art Shanty Projects is an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which relatively unregulated public spaces can be used as new and challenging artistic environments to expand notions of what art can be.

The project provides a unique opportunity for artists to interact with their audience, and vice versa, in an un-intimidating, non-gallery like environment. Artists can choose to work in a way that directly engages the audience i.e. knitting or singing Karaoke or in a more passive way.
The focus of this project is on both process and quality of artistic product:

• Artists creating projects that push them and engage the audience.
• The project management providing a flexible structure to work, allowing for the development and realization of an artist’s idea.
• The project must self-govern to respect the environment of the lake and the community of fisher-people and neighbors that already exists, we are bringing a new use to a place that already has an established relationship with its patrons.
• Audience engagement is essential to the success of the experience, for both artist and audience.

The project runs for 4 weekends.