by Emily Bhargava | Sep 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
After a long blogging hiatus as we updated the Connection Lab website, we’re back and rarin’ to go. Emily will be presenting three exciting workshop series at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln MA this fall and winter. Each two-session...
by Emily Bhargava | Feb 12, 2016 | Uncategorized, youth development
Today the Haggerty School in Cambridge held a celebration of its hundredth anniversary! Thankfully, the collaborative mosaic that two second grade classes made with Connection Lab and the Beautiful Stuff Project was finished in time. Two weeks ago each of the students...
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 | Aug 4, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
After a few more mosaic sessions with about 70 youth participating, the mosaic garden bed numbers are coming along beautifully. We’re creating variations on a theme, with each number placed inside a circle, and many other design elements being determined by the...