Access Day at the DeCordova Museum

On a warm day in the summer of 2018 Connection Lab and The Beautiful Stuff Project led an activity at the DeCordova museum and sculpture park as part of Access Day.  The day was designed to invite people with physical and developmental disabilities to enjoy the museum...

Mosaic for mental health

To celebrate mental health awareness month, the Newton Health Department organized an evening event at the local library. The centerpiece activity was a mosaic project facilitated by Connection Lab.  Together, community members of all ages created a mosaic of a tree...

Collaborative Original Storywalk

The Kindergarteners and second graders at the Argenziano school collaboratively authored and illustrated a fantastic and far-fetched story about two girls who find themselves in a house full of vampires.  With each class doing one step in the creation of the story and...

Alphabet quilt mosaic

The Capuano school houses 24 classrooms of pre-K and kindergarteners, all of whom are learning their letters, thinking about sounds, and learning to be good stewards of the world’s resources. Through this alphabet project each classroom made a letter out of...

Winter Hill mosaic mandala mural

The entrance to the Winter Hill Community Innovation School got a facelift when every student in the school (and some parents) helped to create mosaic mandalas that members of the student council designed.  With themes ranging from peace to diversity and movie...