Background information
Helping Jeffrey Kalstrom assemble the mnartists.org shanty 2007. photo by Sean SmudaMy first visit to the Art Shanty Projects in 2004 was memorable. I had just returned to the Twin Cities after 20...
View ArticleOur shanty
My brother Colin has returned to our hometown after living13 years in Seattle and one day over coffee we hatched our plan. A bicycle powered coffee shanty. Oh we have big ideas: built in heating and...
View ArticleSupported by Friends
The response to my request for help has been incredible.Thank you!This project is supported by the generous support of money, time, materials and information by: (in order received)The 2009 Art Shanty...
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Ped Pex Power PodWe have moved the shanty floor from my studio to the Soap Factory and are now working on the structure. We ran into a couple of problems with the rigidity of the pex for our structure....
View ArticleDeadline looming, punch list shrinking...
On Friday, when I started asking the salesman at Batteries Plus in Woodbury questions he called a technician and said he had a science teacher here with some questions. He didn't know what to think...
View Article4 days to opening
With just four days left before the Art Shanties open, we are continuing to design and trouble shoot as we go. We have the floor and framework up on the lake. We built the door in the studio yesterday,...
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We are down to the wire. Two days until the opening and we are sweating it. We are nearly done with the first generator. Big shout out to David Welder for designing the tensioning system. Veronica and...
View ArticleOpening day in Big Wind
Opening day for the Art Shanty Projects today went great. Big crowds and even bigger wind. The good news for us was that our shanty held up to 30 mile an hour winds. Big relief. The bad news was that...
View ArticlePerformance in the Pod
We will be hosting some music in the Pod at 3:00 pm on:January 24 Vicki Dischler Ann Arbor MI, folk rockJanuary 31 Shawn Glidden and Old Time Friends, Twin Cities, MN fiddleFebruary 1 Tim...
View ArticlePower is On!
We are now transforming pedal power into electricity in the pod. On the other hand, our brand new$95 DC 200 W coffee maker has called it quits after one day of service. Did we ask for too much? I did...
View Articleview from above
Click here to see an image of the Ped Pex Power Pod from the Sky.MNKiteman visited the shanty projects and took a photo from his camera on the kite.It means a lot to us because our uncle EW Redmond...
View ArticleWeekend Two
This weekend we had two bicycle generators running. On Saturday we discovered our back up dc powered water boiling thermos also had called it quits, so we were charging the camera and cell phone...
View ArticleSeed Magazine Article
Katherine Sharpe wrote an article in Seed Magazinecovering three of the art shanties with science themes, and included the Ped Pex Power Pod.
View ArticleMusic in the Pod
Time travel in the Power Pod both days. A huge THANK YOU to the musicians!!Saturday we enjoyed music by Shawn Glidden, fiddle, and friends (Alan & Ann)Sunday Tim Kaiser brought in his electronic...
View ArticleWeekend Four
20 artists slept in the shanty village Friday night including me. It was a warm night; 30 degrees and slightly breezy. I arrived with a truck full of supplies at ten PM, and had a chance to see the...
View Article5 weekends / 5 months / 25 pounds of Coffee
It's been a week and a day since we pulled the pod from the ice. It was five months of work culminating in a great way to spend short winter days with fellow adventurers. I spent three nights camping...
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