Artists’ sculptures installed downtown

Artists from Lawrence and across the country spent Friday afternoon delivering the next batch of pieces for the city’s Outdoor Downtown Sculpture Exhibition.

The eight sculptures will be installed downtown in time for a walking tour at 5:30 p.m. May 27. The juror for this year’s exhibition, Terry Oldham, director of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Mo., will lead the tour.

Artists include Andrew Hadle and Bounnak Thammavong, both of Lawrence; Steve Janesko, of Tonganoxie; Joseph Castle, of Bellevue, Idaho; Andrew Connelly, of Placerville, Calif.; Jerry Cowger, of Waterloo, Iowa.

Artist Jerrod Nickelson of Hill City, pictured above, helped install his sculpture Friday.