• Building Capacity for STEAM: Americorps Project expands into 2017

    Building Capacity for STEAM: Americorps Project expands into 2017

    Two years ago I joined artist Andrea Polli and the Social Media Workgroup (SMW) as an Americorps VISTA. “Did you know that President Kennedy introduced the idea of VISTA to Congress in 1963? Or that many of the best-known anti-poverty programs, including Head Start and Credit Unions, were expanded by VISTA members? VISTA has been…

  • Projecting Particles: Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics

    Projecting Particles: Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics

    MARCH 2017 A Spring 2017 workshop called Particle Physics Meets Lakota Cosmology is currently being designed for students at Taos Integrated School for the Arts (TISA) and we plan to take the workshop to multiple schools in New Mexico. Through a collaboration with Lakota Cultural Specialist, Steve Tamayo and CERN physicist Dr. Steven Goldfarb, students will…

  • ARTAOS + TISA: Augmented Reality Mural at Ziggy’s Frozen Yogurt Shop

    ARTAOS + TISA: Augmented Reality Mural at Ziggy’s Frozen Yogurt Shop

    As part of TISA’s new STEAM Lab, Amber McCabe’s 8th grade class participated in an Augmented Reality (AR) Mural Work/Study Project providing real-world community focused learning of STEAM skills. AR is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video,…

  • Launch of STEAM Innovation Lab at Local Taos School

    We are excited to announce that the launch of a STEAM Innovation Lab at the Taos Integrated School of the Arts in Taos, New Mexico is underway. STEMarts Lab founder, Agnes Chavez, is working with Richard Greywolf and Megan Avina Bowers to design a STEAM Lab that will launch TISA students and teachers into the…

  • The PASEO

    STEMarts Lab partners with The PASEO, a festival dedicated to bringing the art of installation, performance and projection to the streets of Taos, New Mexico, while engaging youth and the community in the art making process. In the summer of 2014, a small yet diverse team of creatives, started a crowd-funding campaign and raised over…

  • TISA Kids Support Standing Rock Kids through Art

    TISA Kids Support Standing Rock Kids through Art

      Students from TISA’s 5-8th grade classrooms participated in the Water is Life: Standing Rock project this November. Through art and social engagement they  learned about the growing movement in Standing Rock North Dakota working to protect our water resources and sacred lands threatened by the  construction of the Dakota Pipeline.  Students received a special…

  • Twirl’s Light Play in collaboration with TISA’s new STEAM Lab

    Twirl’s Light Play in collaboration with TISA’s new STEAM Lab

      We launched the new STEAM Lab at the Taos School of Integrated Arts with a series of Twirl workshops. Students from grades K-5 participated in Light Play, which allows them to play, explore and make discoveries with light. They learn how it bends, bounces and blends with the help of lenses and mirrors; along…

  • Serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA

    Serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA

    MAY 2016 I am in my second year serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA,  whose mission is to bring individuals and communities out of poverty. We make a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. I am also part of a growing demographic  of  ‘older adults’ serving…

  • Agnes Chavez shares 2015 Projecting Particles outcomes at return visit to ATLAS@CERN

    MAY 2016 CERN. Geneva, Switzerland A year after her 2015 two-week research stay through ATLAS Experiment at CERN, Chavez returns to share end of year video documentation from the Projecting Particles projects.  The gatherings took place at the CERN library and Ideasquare, a dedicated test facility at CERN that hosts detector R&D projects, facilitates MSc student programs…

  • ATLAS at CERN + The Harwood Museum expand Physics and Art at Taos High School

    ATLAS at CERN partners  with Agnes Chavez, Quarknet and The Harwood Museum to bring a unique physics + art opportunity to Taos High School students. This event is sponsored by ATLAS Experiment, The Harwood Museum and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Special thanks to Carla Chavez, Biology teacher at Taos High School and Megan Avina Bowers,…

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