Mosaic Storywalks

by | Aug 14, 2021

It’s been hard to find ways to come together as a community during the pandemic. It’s even been hard to find excuses to go outside! Through the Beautiful Stuff Project, Connection Lab has led the community in creating three mosaic story walks during the...

Identity Circles

by | Aug 14, 2021

Just before the COVID pandemic began, each student at the West Somerville Neighborhood School made an identity circle that would become part of a school-wide diversity installation. Each circle, made out of scrap fabric and fabric samples, had three rings, the inner...

Preschool bottle cap mosaic

by | Aug 14, 2021

The Capuano school worked hard for a year to collect as many colorful bottle caps as they could. After all the caps were collected, every class had a chance to help sort the caps by color and glue them together into a design that now decorates the first-floor hallway...

Mandala Hug

by | Dec 3, 2020

    The Healey School is an amazing place, with creative and dedicated students and staff, and the principal wanted to find a way to visually represent the many people who support the students every day, creating an installation that would ‘feel like a...

Believe Mosaic

by | Dec 3, 2020

The East Somerville Community School has a new principal, and he’s chosen a motto for the year: Believe.  It’s pasted throughout the school on walls and windows, and in each classroom.  During the 2019-2020 school year Connection Lab designed an 8-foot-wide mosaic...