Resilience
Butterfly Art Collective creates sculptural artworks that invite agency and fund real-world action. Our practice begins with the belief that art can do more than describe an issue—it can participate in shaping outcomes. These large scale initiatives are what we call "Campaigns"
Resilience, our inaugural campaign, centers on 25 pairs of sculptural butterflies made in soft resin with wingspans up to five feet. Each pair honors a community forever changed by one of the 25 deadliest mass shootings in the United States.
From each pair, one butterfly is permanently installed in the affected community. Its counterpart enters circulation through exhibitions and art collections, with 100% of proceeds from its initial sale supporting organizations working to prevent gun violence at various levels.
OUR PARTNERS
Giffords
We work with Giffords to support efforts around school safety and community-based violence intervention. Founded by Gabrielle Giffords after surviving an assassination attempt, the organization advances policy at the local, state, and federal level. Their work brings together gun owners, veterans, and community leaders to reduce violence while respecting constitutional rights.
Sandy Hook Promise
Resilience extends into classrooms through a partnership with Sandy Hook Promise. Their programs give students practical tools—how to recognize warning signs, how to respond, how to take responsibility for one another. The focus is simple: awareness, agency, and early action.
Collective Philanthropy
Our approach gives people access to the practice of philanthropy across a range of means. Rather than relying on a small number of large donors, our model brings together many people—each contributing at different levels toward a unified cause. Lasting change is rarely the work of one.
COLLECT WITH PURPOSE
Each artwork purchased from the Resilience campaign directly supports our partner organizations. By collecting these pieces, supporters pool their contributions into a shared effort, amplifying impact while taking home a tangible object that carries both beauty and purpose—a reminder of having made a meaningful contribution.
Each butterfly in the Resilience campaign represents a story of transformation, remembrance, and hope. The Thousand Oaks, CA shooting occurred on November 7, 2018, at the Borderline Bar & Grill during a college night event, where a gunman opened fire on young patrons, many of them students. Just one day later, the Woolsey Fire swept through the region, burning nearly 100,000 acres and compounding the community’s grief with another devastating blow.
This photographic print features the Thousand Oaks butterfly. Inspired by the city’s namesake oak trees — known for their deep roots, strength, and longevity — the butterfly reflects resilience, endurance, and community in the face of atrocity. Each piece serves as a quiet tribute to lives lost and a reminder of what we continue to hope for. Captured in fine detail, this photographic print presents the butterfly artwork itself — a visual record of a piece created to honor lives lost and carry forward its message of remembrance and hope.
100% of proceeds support our nonprofit partners driving healing and systemic change.
Please allow 2 to 3 business days for order processing.
Created as an invitation to slow down, look closely, and make something by hand, the Resilience Watercolor Kit transforms six original, artist-designed compositions into a tactile painting experience. Inspired by the butterflies of our Resilience campaign and the custom forms created in our studio, each design offers a new way to engage with the shapes, details, and symbolism of our work.
Inside are 12 blind-embossed watercolor pages, with each design included twice – one to keep and one to share. The artwork emerges subtly from the paper through texture, light, and shadow, leaving room for your own interpretation as you paint.
A curated palette of metallic mica watercolors shifts and reflects as it catches the light, bringing another dimension to each embossed composition. There are no rules and no prescribed outcome – only an invitation to follow your curiosity and see where it leads.
Each kit includes:
(12) 8x10” blind-embossed 300gsm watercolor pages featuring 6 original designs (2 of each design)
Metallic mica watercolor palette featuring 9 unique colors
100% of proceeds directly support our nonprofit partners, GIFFORDS and Sandy Hook Promise, advancing their work to prevent gun violence through education, community programs, and lifesaving prevention efforts.
Please allow 3 to 5 business days for order processing.
Collector’s Edition 1
Each butterfly in the Resilience campaign represents a story of transformation, remembrance, and hope. The Littleton, CO shooting occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, where two students opened fire on classmates and teachers. This atrocity, one of the most infamous school shootings in U.S. history, forever changed the national dialogue around school safety, gun control, and the psychological factors behind such attacks.
This handcrafted miniature honors the Columbine community with the same care and symbolism as its larger counterpart. The butterfly seeks to reclaim and restore the original meaning of the word “Columbine,” which has become synonymous with school shootings. Its wings portray a peaceful grassy field filled with delicate columbine flowers — symbols of natural beauty, growth, and life, and a reminder of what the name once represented. Each piece serves as a quiet tribute to lives lost and a reminder of what we continue to hope for.
This is Collector’s Edition 1 in a series of limited miniatures created by the Butterfly Art Collective. Within this edition are 12 individually crafted pieces, each one-of-a-kind in shape and detail. While united by a common design inspiration, no two are exactly alike—ensuring that every collector receives a singular work from this debut release. Each piece includes a numbered and stamped certificate of authenticity from the Butterfly Art Collective.
100% of proceeds support our nonprofit partners driving healing and systemic change.
Please allow 2 to 3 business days for order processing.
Each butterfly in the Resilience campaign represents a story of transformation, remembrance, and hope. The Littleton, CO shooting occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, where two students opened fire on classmates and teachers. This atrocity, one of the most infamous school shootings in U.S. history, forever changed the national dialogue around school safety, gun control, and the psychological factors behind such attacks.
This photographic print features the Columbine butterfly, which seeks to reclaim and restore the original meaning of the word “Columbine,” long overshadowed by violence. The wings portray a peaceful grassy field filled with delicate columbine flowers — symbols of natural beauty, growth, and life, and a reminder of what the name once represented. Captured in fine detail, this photographic print presents the butterfly artwork itself — a visual record of a piece created to honor lives lost and carry forward its message of remembrance and hope.
100% of proceeds support our nonprofit partners driving healing and systemic change.
Please allow 2 to 3 business days for order processing.
THE CREATORS
OF RESILIENCE
Each piece is hand crafted, expertly designed, and reliably engineered to transform the spaces they inhabit. Meet the artists and team behind this work.