Public Art

BIRD OF PARADISE by Artist Ashley Rivers- The Nature of Fire

From the Creative Pinellas Arts Impact Fund for Visual Arts, my goal is to create and display a 3D public art sculpture of a Bird of Paradise flower to increase viewer happiness and vibrancy in the Pinellas county area!
For this project, I also received the 2024 Cycle 4 Microgrant from The Gobioff Foundation to assist in completing this project.

Awarded: January 2025
Thank you: Creative Pinellas, The Gobioff Foundation, and Pinellas County

SUNKEN SPORES for the Underwater Museum of Art

SUNKEN SPORES is a piece based off a few ceramic mushrooms she created in the past. Mushrooms are vital to ecosystems around the world. Through mycelium, mushrooms help other plants share nutrients and communicate through chemical signals.
Created mostly of concrete, with rebar and metal mesh stabilizers, the piece stands roughly 7' 5" tall. The shapes within the piece will allow the perfect surfaces for future corals and anemones to grow, offering new habitats, feeding, spawning, and nursery grounds for over 1 million aquatic species- a perfect analogy to how real mushrooms help other plants share nutrients above ground.

Completed: April 2024
Sculpture now Underwater and ready for viewing