Deadline approaches for downtown sculpture entries

Love ’em or hate ’em, the outdoor sculptures that line the streets of downtown Lawrence tend to generate a fair share of conversation.Here’s your chance to have some input into the artworks that wil be part of the landscape from June of this year through April 2010.The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission has issued a call for entries for the 22nd annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Entries are due Jan. 30, if you have a proposal or want to convince an artist to submit one or their own.The selected works each bring a $750 honorarium. Douglass Freed, the founding director/curator of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Mo., will be the juror.For more information, visit the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission’s Web site. Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission’s Web site.