Monarchs need nectar to migrate in both spring and fall, and to breed in the summer!.Plant a variety of native flowers so you have blooms, and the nectar they provide, growing all season long.Plant habitat! Monarch habitat contains the native milkweed that monarch caterpillars rely on, as well as a diversity of other nectar rich flowers.The mission of the Puppet Farm is “to improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art”. He also manages and directs Puppet Farm Arts, a humble nonprofit community-arts organization, founded back when he used to squat in a barn with his collection of trash and puppets, in Wisconsin. Lutter-Gardella is the founder and artistic and managing director of Big Animal Productions LLC, a public art production studio. A deep and abiding emphasis is placed upon eco-consciousness, material-resourcefulness, collaboration and improvisation.Īs a community educator and artist-in-residence, he engages community members in re-purposing various “waste materials” into performable art-works, while deepening their connections to the Earth and to one another. He produces his art predominately from waste-stream materials, exploring the unique potentials inherent in the material.įor two decades Lutter-Gardella has been working to inspire and facilitate original thinking in the realms of theatrical, educational and public-art design. We must, as a human society, allow ourselves to be transformed by this experience.Ĭhristopher Lutter Gardella is a designer, inventor, theater-maker and community educator whose work revolves around the design, construction and performance of puppets, masks, props, costumes, unique theatrical inventions, kinetic-sets and sculptural installations. Our ecologies, our economies, our human society, our politics. We must live in a different way-with a deeper appreciation of the interconnectedness of all living things (including to other humans!). I realize it’s about so much more than just pollination.īutterflies do, indeed, make the hearts of the children glad!Īs we emerge from our COVID cocoons, we step into a changed world, as changed people- many of us asking “How can we live differently”? I would propose we don’t ask that question merely in the restrictive sense of what we cannot do, nor even what we can do, but what we MUST do. They seem to have, by their very nature, played the role of, might I say: Spirit-lifters-bringing an unexpected moment of levity to so many turning dower expressions into gentle smiles and lit-up eyes provoking squeals of delight from the littlest people! Through the course of the two previous iterations of this installation, I have, much to my own surprise, witnessed the power of the Butterfly to uplift the hearts and spirits of passersby (particularly through the trials of 2020). And really, aren’t they much more than simply pollinators that pollinate the plants that we so depend-upon? An affirmation of life.Ī traditional Papago story speaks of Earth-Maker creating butterflies “to make the hearts of children glad”. But, deep down, it is an act of creation. Our caring for the least among us is more than a mere act of charity. This can also be demonstrated in the realm of human society.
If we don’t take enough care in how we treat our fellow creatures, the smallest thing will bring-us-down. Indeed, our experience with COVID within this past year really demonstrates the point. That if we don’t care for them (butterflies, bees, bears, people) we may not ultimately survive, as a whole. In the Artist Statement for the opening of this exhibit, I proposed that we consider the butterfly as a reminder of our interconnectedness, and indeed, of our utter dependency-upon even the smallest and most vulnerable among us. When you start to see things differently, we realize the smallest changes truly can have a big impact. Over 600 spoons were used to create the eyes of the smaller butterflies above you. What you might see as a plastic spoon, artist Christopher Lutter-Gardella sees as an eye of a monarch butterfly. Kaleidoscope was created using materials pulled from the waste stream. The installation is entitled “Kaleidoscope” and will share the critical story about the decline of the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with the hope of educating guests on how they can make a difference to help address this situation.
Christopher Lutter-Gardella has created a magnificent suspended installation at Mall of America consisting of a majestic 30-foot Monarch butterfly surrounded by more than 300 smaller butterflies.
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