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Arts Integration Projects at the Somerville Public Schools
It’s been a busy few months! Through the Beautiful Stuff Project, Connection Lab has worked with five of the Somerville public elementary schools to carry out professional development and collaborative arts integrations projects. Each project connected to...
read moreIMPACT/PAC mosaic
After many months of individual projects, the IMPACT group, a gathering of immigrant parents who convene on Friday mornings to connect and make art, began a collaborative mosaic to represent their group. They designed a logo of two clasped hands, and laid out the...
read moreOpening reception for pumping photo exhibit
As a prelude to International Women's Day the opening reception for the pumping exhibit was perfect. We had a good turn-out, and lots of help from the people and organizations in the city that have the power to incorporate new, more mother-friendly policies into local...
read morePumping Photo Voice exhibit at Somerville City Hall
The amazing photos and stories that were hung at the Breast Pump Hackathon last spring will be displayed again, this time at City Hall in Somerville. A group of inspirational local partners has stepped up to help plan an opening reception on the evening of March 7th....
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Invent, Learn and Create
At a Somerstreets festival back in September Connection Lab and the Beautiful Stuff Project hosted a collaborative mosaic table that was also part of the Reggio Emilia Wonder of Learning event's calendar. We set up three wooden drawers and mosaic tiles as an...
read moreTeen Mosaic at The Children’s Room
We were invited back to The Children's Room in Arlington to lead a collaborative mosaic project with teens. In only 45 minutes they worked in small groups to mosaic hands in four different colors. Many of the teens added their own personal symbols or words under...
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Charlestown Nursery School
We visited the Charlestown Nursery School on the teachers' very first day back in the classroom to explore the ways that mosaic can be used to engage students, parents and the community at large. The teachers made a fast and furious collaborative mosaic of their own...
read moreAccess Day- Meet the Gack
While Dr Seuss's Gack still reigns supreme, we had a great time at the deCordova yesterday building and decorating our own interpretation of the Gack. With a mermaid tail and some crazy horns, it emerged as a friendly monster that was colorful enough for kids to think...
read moreVisit us at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park’s Access Day
The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park will be hosting an Access Day event on August 15th from 10:00-1:00. We'll be there leading a collaborative sculpture project. Come help us build and decorate a creative creature. We're not quite sure what he'll look like yet,...
read moreBreast Pump Hackathon updates
The hackathon and the accompanying policy summit were amazing. The work that went into thinking about the event's values, participants, setting and content paint off tremendously, and it seemed to me that everyone left feeling empowered and part of a caring positive...
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