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The ice shanty is a Vermont institution. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center calls it art, too Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press © COURTESY "Suitcase Art Shanty" by Mike Haeg. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is presenting the exhibit "Artful Ice Shanties" Feb. 13-28, 2021. Ice shanties are a part of the Vermont landscape this time of year, with tiny shacks that protect ice fishers from the elements dotting ponds and lakes each winter. But are they art? A Vermont mus...

Thu, 01/28/2021 - 1:58pm -- tim Brattleboro Museum & Art Center partners with Retreat Farm in an artistic celebration of New England’s fishing traditions Vermont Business Magazine Most New Englanders have seen ice shanties on frozen lakes, but few, if any, have seen an ice shanty shaped like a fish—not to mention a stovepipe hat, a wishing well, or a wedge of cheese. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) and Retreat Farm present all this and more in the inaugural Artful Ice Shanties D...