This new art activity is the brainchild of Sally Taylor, the artist and daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon. She's leading the inaugural Consenses Walk in the village of Walloon Lake this week.

But out on White Bear Lake, the Art Shanty Project’s second of three homes, person after person stepped inside. “People are there to play in a different way,” Garwood said. He was hooked.

For many attendees, Art on the Lake provided a refreshing opportunity to step outside the familiar. “We’re in our little bubble here,” Patty Cerda, a Sahuarita resident, said.