Community Butterfly Art Project
Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) Recreation and Parks and The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre (TOSH) are excited to bring you the Butterfly Art Project online and invite you to take part in creating butterfly art.
Artists of all ages and abilities are welcome. REC Connect has templates, plus butterfly and colour facts to inspire you. Butterflies can be any size or style and creativity is welcomed. We also invite you to share your poetry, songs, dances and any artistic interpretation of butterflies you can think of. Photos of the butterfly art will be shared online, and it is hoped that when facilities reopen the butterflies will migrate back to be put on display.
TOSH volunteers spent countless hours making water colour paper butterflies that were delivered to local schools. Due to closures, the project was reimagined and is now being hosted online through REC Connect.
The butterfly is a symbol of transformation – from the cocoon, the butterfly emerges in colourful splendor. Just like a butterfly, we too shall emerge from this unsettling time transformed.
Click here for templates, butterfly facts and notes on colour.