In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), a craft butterfly workshop was held in front of State Senator Julia Salazar’s district office at 212 Evergreen Ave. on Thursday, September 30. Construction paper, glue, glitter, paint and other craft supplies were provided by the office team who organized the event.

According to Gabby Vazquez, a Brooklynite multimedia designer and curatorial assistant, the workshop is just phase one of the Butterfly Project — a community-led effort to create a collage that will eventually take up an entire wall in Sen. Salazar’s office.

“I knew that I wanted to merge some kind of thing around Latinx culture, Spanish-speaking cultures, and those histories and those narratives around immigration and migration with politics,” she told Bushwick Daily. “The Butterly Project [is] a great extension of that creative process that can emerge within a public official’s office.”