by Emily Bhargava | May 30, 2019 | community art, community health, youth development
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...
by Emily Bhargava | Apr 1, 2019 | community art, community health
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...
by Emily Bhargava | Apr 1, 2019 | community art, community health
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...
by Emily Bhargava | Feb 26, 2019 | community art, community health
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....
by Emily Bhargava | Nov 26, 2018 | community art
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...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 7, 2018 | community art
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...
