Students’ butterfly draws a pretty penny

A fanciful work of butterfly art created by teen-age students at UW-Green Bay’s annual Summer Art Studio camp last summer drew a winning bid of $3,400 at auction Sept. 24. Bill Wangerin of De Pere purchased the work at the auction benefitting the community Einstein Project enhancing K-8 science education. All of the high school artists at the camp had the opportunity to collaborate on the painting, assemblage and sculpture of the multi-media butterfly. Their artwork and nearly three dozen other butterflies, frogs and birds designed by community artists then spent most of the summer on display through the Einstein’s outdoor sculpture exhibit along Green Bay’s downtown Fox River walkways. The $3,400 bid will result in $340 being returned to the campus, and campers, in the form of tuition scholarships for students attending next summer’s camp. Summer camp instructors Dan Klewer and Carrie Fonder oversaw the students’ work.