Butterfly Gardens

AgeAlive is committed to bringing community members together through intergenerational, creative activities. Our Artist in Residence is Lansing contemporary artist Zahrah Resh. Zahrah uses her personal experiences to help others learn about and experience the healing and life-affirming benefits of engaging in the arts.

Zahrah and AgeAlive are partnering with community groups to create Community Butterfly Gardens
throughout the region. We invite you to explore our past memorial/healing, MSUFCU, Spartan Alumni and other gardens on our website.

Learn more about Zahrah’s work at www.zahrahrgallery.com.

The Community Butterfly Garden Gallery

“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” – Jeffrey Glassberg

The Community Butterfly Garden encourages community members to participate in a fun and easy art project that promotes connection and spreads hope and beauty. You can use your message to express gratitude or to honor or thank an organization or people such as teachers, first responders, healthcare workers, etc. Make your own butterfly and submit a picture of or a selfie with your butterfly to AgeAlive to be posted with the community members below!

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The Healing Butterfly Garden Gallery

“In mythology throughout the world, the butterfly represents the soul and its journey in this life and the next.” – Tom Frost

Honor or memorialize a loved one by creating a beautiful butterfly to share with the world. Write the name of your loved one on the wings or on a sign if you wish, and take a selfie to submit to AgeAlive for inclusion in the Healing Butterfly Garden below.

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The MSU Federal Credit Union Unity Butterfly Garden Gallery

“When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The MSUFCU Unity Garden provided the opportunity to create art for both employees and community members. “My inspiration behind introducing this project was to ensure that the diversity within each Employee Resource Group was represented in a form of art that our community could experience.” Prince Jerold Solace, President of the African American Employee Resource Group at MSUFCU.

Visit the MSFCU Unity Butterfly Garden in person! The exhibit will be available for public viewing beginning March 4th, 2021 at MSUFCU headquarters at 3777 West Road, East Lansing.

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MSU Alumni Butterfly Garden Gallery

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou

Join Spartans from around the world for the Global Day of Service through the MSU Alumni Office. Inspire hope, joy, and social connectedness through art-making and beauty by making a butterfly and writing an uplifting message on the wings or on a sign. You can also use your message to honor or thank an organization or people or such as teachers, first responders, healthcare workers, etc. Include the city, state and/or country where you live and the year you graduated from MSU.

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