The Butterfly Effect:
AgeAlive Virtual Butterfly Gardens

Beautiful and graceful, butterflies lift our spirits with their loveliness and lyric flight. 
-  Gloria B. Schlaepfer

The AgeAlive Virtual Butterfly Gardens provides a way for anyone to create beauty through a simple art project.  No previous artistic experience is necessary -- only a desire to share beauty and a message of hope with the world! 

Make your own butterfly and submit a selfie with your butterfly and uplifting message to AgeAlive to be posted with the community members below!                      

Submit Your Butterfly Selfie

Viewers: Sign the Guest Book!

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!                      

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.

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.

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. 

• To participate in this MSU service project, register as an volunteer HERE.
  
• Submit a selfie to AgeAlive.
• The goal - butterflies from every country!   Get your location on the map!