{"id":643798,"date":"2026-05-15T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643798\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:58:08","slug":"cityart-mankato-prepares-to-install-26-new-sculptures-for-2026-27-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643798\/","title":{"rendered":"CityArt Mankato prepares to install 26 new sculptures for 2026-27 tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) &#8211; Thanks to more than $100,000 in donations, CityArt Mankato says it has 26 new sculptures that will be going onto pedestals in downtown Mankato on Saturday as part of its 2026-27 art tour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year\u2019s sculptures include work from students at Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton, as well as local artists and artists from across the country, including Philadelphia and Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Committee Chair for CityArt Mankato Stacey Straka says she\u2019s grateful for the continued support over the past 16 years to keep the project growing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think it\u2019s significant because I think it speaks to the support of arts that our community has, as well as its commitment to build a vibrant community that people want to come to to live, and come to and work in and stay in,\u201d Straka said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Installation is set to begin at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday and end at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyc.com\/page\/keyc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to download the KEYC News Now app or our KEYC First Alert weather app.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KEYC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) &#8211; Thanks to more than $100,000 in donations, CityArt Mankato says it has 26 new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-643798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}