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Ishpeming Senior Center displays ‘A Caregivers Butterfly Garden’

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ISHPEMING, Mich. (WZMQ) – Over the next year at the Ishpeming Senior Center, a commemorative handmade installation can be found throughout it’s hallways and community spaces, representing the community of its workers who do so much to care for others. The display is called A…
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Fourth Installation of A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden Opens at Ishpeming Multi-Purpose Senior Center

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The fourth installation of A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden, a statewide traveling art and advocacy exhibit honoring direct care workers and caregivers, opens February 19 at the Ishpeming Multi-Purpose Senior Center, 121 Greenwood St., in Ishpeming. The exhibit marks the first installation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula…
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A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden coming to Ishpeming Senior Center

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MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden is coming to the Upper Peninsula for the first time. Ishpeming Multi-Purpose Senior Center Executive Director Ashley Roberts talked to TV6’s Mandy Koskela ahead of opening day on February 19. “It’s huge. We’re so excited because we…
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A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden Takes Flight in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

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IMPART Alliance is proud to announce the opening of A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden at the Ishpeming Multi-Purpose Senior Center—marking an exciting milestone for this growing, statewide initiative. Opening February 19, this installation represents the fourth Butterfly Garden exhibit overall and the first to land in…
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Caregiver art exhibit, tax help and more at Ishpeming Multi-Purpose Senior Center

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ISHPEMING, Mich. (WBUP/WJMN) — As Michigan faces a 36,000 worker shortage in caregiving, there’s an exhibit that brings this crisis to life through art and it’s coming to the Ishpeming Multi-Purpose Senior Center.
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A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden Takes Flight at the Hannah Community Center

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IMPART Alliance presents, in partnership with AgeAlive and the City of East Lansing EAST LANSING, MI — A moving art-advocacy installation celebrating Michigan’s Direct Care Workers (DCWs) will soon brighten the halls of the Hannah Community Center. A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden opens November 17, 2025, and…
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Wings of Care: A Season of Growth and What’s Next for A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden

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On a warm June afternoon at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts, something extraordinary unfolded. It wasn’t just an art installation—it was a gathering of hearts, hands, and stories. A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden hosted a reception after its second wave of the installation and what…
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Why Michigan Needs to Celebrate—and Support—Its Caregivers

- Butterfly Gardens - By Rochelle Berry, Project Manager, “A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden” Traveling Exhibit
Every day, more than 165,000 Direct Care Workers in Michigan make it possible for people to live with dignity, safety, and comfort. They are caregivers, companions, advocates, and lifelines. And yet, they are too often invisible.
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East Lansing Students Bring Color and Care to Statewide Butterfly Garden Campaign

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An East Lansing High School classroom buzzed with creativity this week as students participated in a Kaleidoscope Painting Workshop, part of A Caregiver's Butterfly Garden, a statewide public art initiative led by artist Zahrah Resh and Michigan State University’s IMPART Alliance in partnership with…
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Saugatuck Center for the Arts Launches Statewide Caregiver Exhibit — Help Us Find the Next Three Locations

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The Saugatuck Center for the Arts has become the proud pilot site for A Caregiver’s Butterfly Garden, a statewide traveling art installation honoring Michigan’s Direct Care Workers. The immersive garden will remain on display through early 2026. Now, the team is actively seeking three new…
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This project has been made possible through a grant awarded to IMPART Alliance by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

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