by Emily Bhargava | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized, youth development
The Kennedy School playground just got a face-lift, and includes a series of new planting beds. With Support from the Somerville Arts Council, the Kennedy after-school program will be working with Connection Lab for 10 weeks to design and make mosaics to install on...
by Emily Bhargava | Dec 8, 2015 | Uncategorized, youth development
The Youth Arts Arise program at the Somerville Armory is back for a second year of free arts classes for local teens. And once again, I was able to teach a short session of mosaic as part of the program. This time I had the extra pleasure of working with Karen...
by Emily Bhargava | Nov 30, 2015 | youth development
I am working with a very special class at the East Somerville Community School. With materials from the Beautiful Stuff Project I’m helping the class to make projects that they can hang from the beams of their classroom’s ceiling. There isn’t a lotto time to do...
by Emily Bhargava | Oct 23, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
The wonderful art teacher at the Argenziano School agreed to have her art club make floral mosaics to decorate pavers that will divide the beds in the school garden. She used PTA funds to buy mesh and glue, we’ll use garden improvement funds to buy pavers and...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 29, 2015 | community art, Uncategorized, youth development
Many years ago as a youth worker running health programs with teens, I was shown a chart that showed the balance of power between youth and adults as young people take on more meaningful and complete responsibility for programs. (I wish I knew where it came from). ...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 27, 2015 | community health, Uncategorized, youth development
Does that title make any sense? An organization called Wilderness Inquiry organizes events across the country that they call “Canoemobile” to introduce youth to their waterways and to help them learn about ecology. As part of Somerville’s first...