by Emily Bhargava | May 30, 2019 | community art, community health, youth development
It’s been a busy few months! Through the Beautiful Stuff Project, Connection Lab has worked with five of the Somerville public elementary schools to carry out professional development and collaborative arts integrations projects. Each project connected to...
by Emily Bhargava | Nov 26, 2018 | community art
At a Somerstreets festival back in September Connection Lab and the Beautiful Stuff Project hosted a collaborative mosaic table that was also part of the Reggio Emilia Wonder of Learning event’s calendar. We set up three wooden drawers and mosaic tiles as an...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 7, 2018 | community art
We visited the Charlestown Nursery School on the teachers’ very first day back in the classroom to explore the ways that mosaic can be used to engage students, parents and the community at large. The teachers made a fast and furious collaborative mosaic of...
by Emily Bhargava | Apr 16, 2018 | community art, youth development
As a way to help bring a class together, Connection Lab and the Beautiful Stuff Project teamed up to lead a four-session collaborative mosaic project. With lots of careful planning and on-the-spot orchestration, we pulled off an exciting piece in only four 45-minutes...
by Emily Bhargava | Dec 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Connection Lab has used mandalas in therapeutic settings, with english-language learners, and has now brought them to the deCordova museum and sculpture park. An introductory mosaic workshop linked to an exhibit in the galleries called Cool Medium: Art, Television...
