Mosaic Storywalks

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...

Dream

On Martin Luther King Jr Day Connection Lab led the creation of a collaborative mosaic that says “DREAM”.  The piece was tiled by community members following a public event with speeches, films and performances.  The mosaic references both the DREAM Act...

Memorial stones

Karen Edlund, a friend, neighbor, mentor and founding board member of the New England Mosaic Society, was a powerhouse in the world of public health and reproductive health, community organizing and community building.  She meant so much to so many people.  After...

Resilience

The ArtBeat festival is a mainstay of the art scene in Somerville, MA, but COVID changed the festival’s plans and moved everything to be online or socially distanced.  Through the Beautiful Stuff Project, Connection Lab created a public art installation called...

Mandala Hug

    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...