Franklin Park Mall is celebrating International Year of Glass and we invite you to be part of it.  

The UN designated 2022 as the International Year of Glass and Franklin Park Mall is commemorating this honor with a special glass art installation!  "Butterflies of Northwest Ohio" an art installation featuring 15 larger than life glass mosaic butterflies, is being created to hang from the our iconic center court skylight.  And you can help create this amazing work of art in a community collaboration project.  Join us on August 27 when artist Gail Christofferson will bring 4 of the butterflies (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Monarch, Red Spotted Purple, and Mourning Cloak) to the mall to be built by our community... for our community!  Families will enjoy live entertainment, butterfly selfie stations, foam mosaic butterfly craft stations for the kids, and a chance to place glass into the mosaic butterflies.   

Activities include:

12-6 pm

• Community Collaboration Mosaic Butterfly Build led by artist Gail Christofferson and volunteers support from The Arts Commission Young Artists at Work Program
• Butterfly crafts and coloring station (while supplies last)
• Butterfly selfie station.  You can be an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Monarch or Common Buckeye!  Pose for a picture in our butterfly selfie station and tag us to be featured on Franklin Park Mall social media
• Toledo Zoo - Monarch Tag Program information table
• Metroparks Toledo – Butterfly walking transects and volunteer opportunities information table

12:30–2:30 pm – Live music by Distant Cousinz Acoustic Duo
3:00-5:00 pm – Live music by Hector Mendoza