At the Bower, Philadelphia sculptors take the Pennsylvania landscape to heart
By Helen Walsh, July 20, 2021.
The creators of The Bower, a new Pennsylvania sculpture park and native garden, call it a “community-oriented rural setting featuring woodlands, naturalized landscape, gardens and large-scale sculpture and land art,” where they’re “committed to supporting and becoming a resource for the arts, education, and nonprofit communities.” Wait a second…Is this a scene from Milton?
Not exactly. The Bower, nestled in the folds of the Appalachians about a half-hour’s drive northwest of Harrisburg, in the small town of Shermans Dale, is more down-to-earth than Paradise Lost. It features more than beauteous flowers and odorous, bushy shrubs, with diverse sculptures by 10 artists selected from an international pool.
“We wanted art to leverage nature and nature to leverage art,” says Bower cofounder Bill Allis, who opened the 36-acre site earlier this year with his wife, Jane Allis, both longtime residents of the Perry County property.
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