by Emily Bhargava | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized, youth development
The Kennedy School playground just got a face-lift, and includes a series of new planting beds. With Support from the Somerville Arts Council, the Kennedy after-school program will be working with Connection Lab for 10 weeks to design and make mosaics to install on...
by Emily Bhargava | Oct 23, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
The wonderful art teacher at the Argenziano School agreed to have her art club make floral mosaics to decorate pavers that will divide the beds in the school garden. She used PTA funds to buy mesh and glue, we’ll use garden improvement funds to buy pavers and...
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...
by Emily Bhargava | Jul 20, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
What’s Connection Lab’s favorite thing to do? Collaborative art in the interest of public health! And what does a community garden need to make it appealing in the winter as well as in the summer? A mural? Yes! We’ve done that. What else?… Frost-proof mosaics!...
by Emily Bhargava | Jun 18, 2013 | community art, community health, data mural, Uncategorized
Work continues on the great infographic-style mural that a class from Prospect Hill Academy designed for the South Street farm. Here’s a picture of how the colors will be laid out (except that the background will actually be light yellow). The group scrubbed and...
