If you’ve taken a stroll down Lemon Street, you might have noticed new sculptures dotting the promenade. The art kicks off the start of the 25th Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition.
Artists submitted more than 70 sculpture designs to a local jury made up of staff from the city, the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art, and other art community members, who narrowed down the crop to the top 11.
The chosen few dot three blocks along Lemon Street, between South Florida Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue, through the end of the year. There’s also one piece on display at the Lakeland Public Library.
It’s completely free to walk the promenade and take a closer look at each sculpture — download the Otocast app to have your personal walking tour accompanied by voice recordings from the artists.
The 11 sculptures include:
- “Always Workin’” by Keith Williams of Lakeland, FL
- “Inter-Dimensional Species” by Claudia Jane Klein of Lake Worth Beach, FL
- “Hey!” by Russell Whiting of Breaux Bridge, LA
- “The Reader” by Jeff Whipple of Jacksonville, FL
- “Pollinator” by Kirk Seese of Lutherville Timonium, MD
- “Rosa Parks Stepping into Equality” by Julia Knight of Decatur, GA
- “Daydreamer in Red” by Jessica Bradsher of Greenville, NC
- “Ker-Plunk” by Adam Walls of Tryon, NC
- “Alien Flower” by Richard Herzog of Athens, GA
- “Walking Man” by Donald Gialanella of St. Petersburg, FL
- “Funky Twist” by Glenn Zweygardt of Alfred Station, NY
Learn more about the artists, their sculptures, and the design behind them, then head to the City of Lakeland’s Facebook album + comment or react on your favorite sculpture’s photo to select it for the People’s Choice Award. Voting is open until Monday, July 7.
