Seattle artists Dawn Cerny and Bristol Hayward-Hughes have collaborated to make six sculptures for Pond in a Bowl that will serve as bird feeders, pollinator rest stops and poetry kiosks. The writer and artist Ed Steck (Pittsburgh, PA) developed a series of poems that have been printed onto an edition of postcards and trifold pamphlets, which will be installed on Cerny and Hayward-Hughes’s sculptures for visitors to take.

These sculptures will carve out places to hold water, birdseed and nest-building material for the birds, animals and pollinators. This exhibition conceives outdoor sculptures as sites for collaboration with mutable conditions – human, animal, plant and insect – the light and the conditions of the place endlessly change. This project is tied to the environmental and social ecology of the garden or park as a place that invites hospitality, rest and survival.

Pond in a Bowl is a fiscally sponsored project of the Allied Arts Foundation.

If you'd prefer to donate by check, please make check payable to "Allied Arts Foundation" and indicate "Pond in a Bowl" in the memo line. Checks can be mailed to:

Allied Arts Foundation
2212 Queen Anne Ave N #759
Seattle, WA 98109