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...
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...
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...
Through the Beautiful Stuff Project, Connection Lab created an 8-page mosaic Storywalk called Dandelion Days. Each page of the book is a 12”x16” mosaic created by community members during socially-distanced outdoor tiling sessions. Without words, the book tells the...
In collaboration with The Beautiful Stuff Project, Connection Lab worked with school adjustment counselors in a local elementary school to help them integrate mandalas into their clinical practice with students and to prepare them to create a collaborative mandala...
