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Support Art & Science! Butterflies & Friends on Parade is a community-wide summer celebration of art and science presented by Green Bay Packaging, Schneider National Foundation and The Einstein Project with support from Dominion Resources and with help from many other area businesses, foundations, organizations, and artists.

The Parade!

The 2010 Butterflies & Friends on Parade art pieces can be found near the Neville Public Museum and on and along the City Deck in downtown Green Bay. Turtles, frogs, cranes, butterflies, flowers, a caterpillar and even a fairy are making the Green Bay community a more interesting place this summer.

We are excited to bring this great blending of art and science back to the area, and hope you will join us.

Win a Butterfly!

Tiger Tails by Michelle Krahenbuhl -This wonderfully brilliant butterfly is our raffle piece this year! Raffle tickets are $10 each or 3 for $20. You could be the lucky winner!

Tickets will be available in late May, at:

• The Art Garage
• The Glass Haus
• Green Bay Botanical Garden
• Neville Public Museum
• The Einstein Project

In the past, the average auction price for a butterfly was over $2,600, so a raffle ticket is a great bargain!

The raffle drawing will be held at the conclusion of the Butterflies & Friends on Parade live auction on Tuesday, September 28th. You need not be present to win.

The Auction!

Save the Date! The 2010 Butterflies & Friends on Parade art auction will be:

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at the KI Convention Center

The art will be up for sale September 28th to benefit The Einstein Project in the annual Butterflies & Friends art auction. In the interest of shortening the length of the evening while increasing the variety for buyers, 18 pieces will be featured in the live auction format and 11 mid-sized critters will be sold in a new silent auction.

Auction Details

The art pieces will be auctioned Tuesday, September 28th at the KI Convention Center, with guest auctioneer Action 2 News Anchor Bill Jartz.

• 5:00 p.m. doors open to allow attendees to examine the art, meet with the artists, enjoy light refreshments, and begin the silent bidding process.
• 6:30 p.m. the live auction will begin.

A $15 admission fee ($20 at the door) helps The Einstein Project defray the costs of this fundraising event. Tickets are available at The Einstein Project or by calling (920) 884-8800.

Vote for Your Favorite!

New this year is a "People's Choice" award. Vote for your favorite art piece: $1 = 1 vote. Vote online at or add to your ticket purchase (online voting ends September 24th, however, votes will also be accepted at the auction on September 28th). The artist whose piece receives the most votes will receive an award at the September 28th auction.

Fun with Butterflies & Friends

The American Foundation of Counseling Services (AFCS) has its offices in the Bellin Building and decided to create a team building/scavenger hunt exercise around the art on display downtown this summer.

Mike Hogan, director of administrative operations at AFCS created a list of clues such as, "90 of these mean I could (if I was real) produce an abundant amount of photosynthesis. Which item am I?" and AFCS teams had to find the answers, photograph themselves with the correct art piece and return to The City Deck for lunch at Dine on the Deck and the announcement of winners. Here are some of the team photos. Much fun was had, and for the curious, the answer to the clue is "Tree of Life" by Kim Jankowski.

Artists Selected for The Einstein Project's 2010 Butterflies & Friends On Parade

A butterfly painted to look like it is under the sea, complete with a mermaid's tail, a glass mosaic frog and one that is a sundial, a "Viceroy" butterfly, a turtle covered in recycled glass, and a "Summer Bouquet" of vines, flowers and summer creatures, are just several of 30 art pieces that will make the Green Bay community a more interesting place this summer as part of The Einstein Project's 2010 Butterflies & Friends on Parade, presented by Green Bay Packaging and the Schneider National Foundation with support from the Dominion Foundation.

A distinguished panel of eleven judges sorted through many wonderful applications to chose 30 designs for this year's on Parade event. Artists will begin work on the selected projects in the next few weeks and the finished art pieces will be unveiled in June to be placed along the Fox River in downtown Green Bay for public viewing throughout the summer.

On September 28th, the art pieces will be auctioned at the KI Convention Center with all proceeds benefiting The Einstein Project, a non-profit school-business-community partnership dedicated to improving the quality of science education for K-8 students in Wisconsin. Special guest auctioneer will be Action 2 News Anchor Bill Jartz.

"This blend of art and science has continued to be a well-received and much-anticipated event in our community," says Julie Paavola, executive director. "In addition to the pre-cast aluminum butterflies and large fiberglass/resin turtles, we will again have artist-created pieces including cranes, flowers and butterflies that the chosen artists will create from the ground up. This year also sees the addition of mid-size fiberglass/resin frogs and turtles and tabletop sized fiberglass/resign butterflies. The quality of the designs and the artists continue to amaze us, and we are most appreciative of their support."

The following artists have been selected to create butterflies, frogs or turtles for the 2010 Butterflies & Friends on Parade:

Tabletop Fiberglass/Resin Butterflies:

• Joelle Bhullar, Kimberly, "Tittlee", sponsored by U&I Movers Express 
• Sara Huens, Green Bay, "Painted Lady of the Sea", sponsored by Wells Fargo
• Selina Klarkowski, Green Bay, "Wind Dancer", sponsored by Davis & Kuelthau
• David Olson, Green Bay, "Surreal Citrus" (student at Preble High School), sponsored by Berners-Schober Associates
• Nhia Vang, Green Bay, "Spring Flowers" (student at Preble High School), sponsored by EMT International

Mid-size Fiberglass/Resin Frogs:

• Candace Cole, Green Bay, "Amphibian Mehndi", sponsored by Nasco
• Tom & Monica Pecor, The Glass Haus, Green Bay, "Glassy Frog", sponsored by Bellin Health
• Ethan Storm, Green Bay/Wausau, "Lost in Leaves" (student at UWGB)

Mid-size Fiberglass/Resin Turtles:

• Timothy Pfeister, Green Bay, "Time Crawls By", sponsored by Wells Fargo
• Laural Virtues Wauters, Green Bay, "Grandmother Moon Mandala", sponsored by Downtown Green Bay, Inc.
• Jennifer Wojczak, Hartford, "Turtle Cast #1", sponsored by U.S. Bank

Large Fiberglass/Resin Turtles:

• Mark Farnsworth, Green Bay, "Koi" (formerly Day and Night), sponsored by M&I Bank
• Cherie Greek, Appleton, "Titus the State Turtle", sponsored by Robinson Metal
• Molly Johnson, Green Bay, "Country Road Take Me Home", sponsored by Commercial Horizons and Nicolet Bank 
• Michelle Krahenbuhl, Green Bay, "Turtle Tatts", sponsored by Cellcom / Nsight
• Annie Larsen, Sobieski, "Terrapin Recycled", sponsored by Aon Corporation
• Lynda Secor, Green Bay, "Ivan the Terrapin", sponsored by Bank Mutual

Aluminum-Based Butterflies:

• Anna Douangphachanh, Green Bay, "Nature's Blast" (student at St. Norbert College), sponsored by CESA #7
• Jacqueline Franklin, Green Bay, "Reflections", sponsored by WS Packaging Group
• Michael Jakopovich, Green Bay, "Viceroy", sponsored by Pomp's Tire
• Kimberlee Jankowski, Green Bay, "Tree of Life", sponsored by LaForce, Inc.
• Michelle Krahenbuhl, Green Bay, "Tiger Tails", sponsored by Rotary Foundation of Green Bay (This will be the 2010 raffle butterfly)
• Jodi Webster, Green Bay, "Indigenous Woodlands", (student at St. Norbert College) sponsored by KI

Artist-Created Art Pieces:

• Jeff Benson, Green Bay, "Summer Bouquet", sponsored by Godfrey & Kahn
• Carrie Fonder, Ann Arbor, Michigan, "Bloom", sponsored by Orion Energy Systems
• Shannon Frantz, Green Bay, "Portal", sponsored by Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance
• Jeff Greening, Green Bay, "Playing with Fire" sponsored by Shopko 
• Kent Hutchison, Green Bay/Madison, "Monarch with Milkweed", sponsored by Fox Communities Credit Union
• Naomi Moes Jenkins, Green Bay, "Spring Love"
• George Reynolds, Green Bay, "Reflecting Crane", sponsored by PMI Entertainment Group

In addition to the sponsors listed above, title sponsors are Green Bay Packaging and Schneider National Foundation; supporting sponsor the Dominion Foundation; Arketype and Tara Adsit are doing our graphic design; WBAY TV2 is our television media sponsor; Brown County Graphics and Independent Printing are our print sponsors; Mark Williams, Williams Auto Body is the Protective Coating Sponsor; and KI Convention Center is the auction location sponsor. Also donating in-kind services are: Mary Magella Baugnet, Magella Studios and the City of Green Bay.

The Einstein Project provides K-8 teachers with hands-on science materials in ready-to-teach condition.  Most of the science units for grades K-8 are developed at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences and are leased to school districts throughout Wisconsin. More information about The Einstein Project is available at www.einsteinproject.org.

Butterflies & Friends on Parade Volunteer Opportunities:

• Assist on event planning committee (Once a month December – September and time to complete assignments as needed)
• Help during various promotions and events, including the auction (September 28, 2010) at the end of the display in fall
  • Auction needs include:
    • Set-up (10:00am – 2:00pm)
    • Computer/AV (1:00pm – 2:00pm & 5:30pm – 9:30pm)
    • Raffle ticket sales (5:45pm – 9:00pm)
    • Servers – must be 18 or older (5:45pm – 9:00pm)
    • Bidder Registration (5:45pm – 7:30pm)
    • Bidding spotters/Runners (6:30pm – 9:30pm)
    • Record keepers (6:30pm – 9:30pm)
    • Check-out (8:30pm – 10:00pm)
    • Takedown (9:30pm – 10:30pm)
• Contact einstein@einsteinproject.org for more information.

The Einstein Project provides K-8 teachers with hands-on science materials in ready-to-teach condition. Most of the science units for grades K-8 are developed at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences and are leased to school districts throughout Wisconsin.