🦋 BUTTERFLY EFFECT — Community Art Workshop by Aleksandra Kaźmierczak
Join Artist in Residence Aleksandra Kaźmierczak for this half-day workshop.
Concept:
We all transform — but sometimes the most powerful changes begin from what we try to throw away.
During this workshop, we’ll explore metamorphosis through creation: participants will collect discarded objects and materials found around Broken Hill and turn them into butterflies — symbols of renewal, freedom, and the invisible connection between destruction and beauty.
Process:
Each butterfly will be unique, created from fragments of what the town leaves behind — plastic, wire, cans, paper, forgotten things. Together, they’ll form a collaborative installation representing the collective pulse of transformation.
Philosophy:
The workshop is about rebirth, sustainability, and storytelling.
It’s not just art-making — it’s a ritual of turning chaos into meaning.
Every piece carries a question: what if the things we discard are actually parts of us that still want to fly?
“We’re not fixing what’s broken — we’re teaching it how to fly.”
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak is a writer, artist and entrepreneur from Poland. Trained in literature and deeply influenced by the absurd and the intuitive, her work revolves around Obłoki — soft, organic forms that chart her personal journey and emotional landscapes.
She creates and writes about women returning to themselves — their truth, body, and power. Recently, she opened her own museum, which now holds over a hundred of her paintings, and published her first book „Andy i inne Robale" (Andy and Other Bugs), a poetic collection about intimacy, freedom, and self-reclamation.
She lives between poetic fantasy and grounded persistence.
Duration: approx. 5 hours (flexible)
Participants: no artistic experience required
Price: $20 BHAE Members, $30 BHAE Non-Members
Bring any bits of waste you have lying about and would like to use, and some food to share for lunch.
Join Artist in Residence Aleksandra Kaźmierczak for this half-day workshop.
Concept:
We all transform — but sometimes the most powerful changes begin from what we try to throw away.
During this workshop, we’ll explore metamorphosis through creation: participants will collect discarded objects and materials found around Broken Hill and turn them into butterflies — symbols of renewal, freedom, and the invisible connection between destruction and beauty.
Process:
Each butterfly will be unique, created from fragments of what the town leaves behind — plastic, wire, cans, paper, forgotten things. Together, they’ll form a collaborative installation representing the collective pulse of transformation.
Philosophy:
The workshop is about rebirth, sustainability, and storytelling.
It’s not just art-making — it’s a ritual of turning chaos into meaning.
Every piece carries a question: what if the things we discard are actually parts of us that still want to fly?
“We’re not fixing what’s broken — we’re teaching it how to fly.”
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak is a writer, artist and entrepreneur from Poland. Trained in literature and deeply influenced by the absurd and the intuitive, her work revolves around Obłoki — soft, organic forms that chart her personal journey and emotional landscapes.
She creates and writes about women returning to themselves — their truth, body, and power. Recently, she opened her own museum, which now holds over a hundred of her paintings, and published her first book „Andy i inne Robale" (Andy and Other Bugs), a poetic collection about intimacy, freedom, and self-reclamation.
She lives between poetic fantasy and grounded persistence.
Duration: approx. 5 hours (flexible)
Participants: no artistic experience required
Price: $20 BHAE Members, $30 BHAE Non-Members
Bring any bits of waste you have lying about and would like to use, and some food to share for lunch.