Art Shanty Projects is a four-weekend winter art festival on a frozen Lake Harriet/Bde Unma in Minneapolis. Artists are selected to create temporary structures and interactive, engaging art experiences and performances, turning a barren, frozen lake into a vibrant, colorful winter village.
The Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center has been awarded one of the 2022 Art Shanties! Our shanty is called The Portals. It will be a shanty village made up of three to five structures. Each structure will be covered with doors, or Portals. Once opened, they reveal very different ideas and experiences. Each of the Portals encourages the visitors to explore, experience, and share their reactions and observations within their group. The Portals may ask visitors to create something – a work of art, a train of thought, an expression of joy, or a moment of contemplation.
Each Portal will be programmed by a different artist - one of them is me!
My portal is called ‘Fortune Teller’, I will include an invitation to receive a 3 card tarot reading via scanning a QR code inside. This is part of a mentorship under Nancy Antenucci of Between Worlds Tarot, wherein I am offering 100 free readings to hone my skills in community.