According to Art Club sponsor Jennifer Bubp, Art Club will continue to work on a butterfly sculpture for the Arts Garden. Bubp said the club will complete the project by May.

The sculpture involves gluing pennies to the metal butterfly. According to Bubp, Art Club obtained the pennies from Greek’s Pizzeria.

“A former owner of Greek’s Pizzeria had these pennies glued to the walls and floor. The thing is, when they

moved, the pennies were covered in epoxy, and banks won’t take those,” Bubp said. She says the club received 150,000 pennies. Art Club will be using the “dirty” pennies on the butterfly.

Meanwhile, Bubp will work on scraping the epoxy off of the remaining pennies to help sponsor the Scholastic Art Award trip to New York this semester. “Currently we have nothing, and I feel badly because winning a national award is a huge honor,” Bubp said.

“Penny by penny, we are recovering them so that they can return to worthless to usable,” Bubp said. “So we’re not doing this for nothing. There’s a method to our madness.”

According to Marisa Arakawa, Art Club president and senior, the butterfly project has been mainly what Art Club has been working on this semester. The project, along with the Arts Garden, will likely be the main focus of the semester.