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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...
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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...
View ArticleTISA Kids Support Standing Rock Kids through Art
Click to view slideshow. 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleHow Standing Rock inspired a new STEAM youth curriculum
A visit to the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock has inspired a new STEAM curriculum for youth. Through a multicultural collaboration with indigenous educators, artists and particle physicists...
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What happens when a physicist from CERN, a Lakota water protector, a Tewa...
Perhaps, opposing worldviews will converge to create a new balance in the universe! Reposted from Janet Webb, Beyondtaos.com Taos, NM, April 2017 “Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics” is a youth...
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Artists and Creative Thinkers Convene to Examine Creativity in Society
Panel: The Here and Now of Arts and Creativity Moderator Sammy Hoi, president of the Maryland College of Art, higher education leader and advocate for creative professionals as drivers of social,...
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STEMarts@The PASEO 2017 Youth Program in Full Swing
September 12, 2017 STEMarts Lab enters its fourth year designing the youth and education program for The Paseo Festival. The STEMarts@The PASEO youth program is a series of educational workshops...
View ArticleTaos Pueblo Day School Returns to The Paseo with Native-Inspired Monsters
Click to view slideshow. September 12, 2017 You could hear a pin drop while Richard Archuleta spoke to the 30 + kids at Taos Pueblo Day School. Richard shared educational stories about pollution and...
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PASEO 2018: Indigenous Cosmology Meets Particle Physics Youth Workshop
Indigenous Cosmology Meets Particle Physics This three day youth workshop combined native science, western science and the arts to explore the universe. The workshop was part of the STEMarts@The...
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TISA kids going to CERN!
I am excited to announce that the TISA class that I have been working with since 4th grade on the Projecting Particles (particle physics + art + culture) project will be visiting CERN on their 8th...
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STEMarts (x)change 2020
AMERICAN CORNER@ UNIVERSITY OF LISBON FACULTY OF LETTERS (FLUL) American Corner@University of Lisbon Faculty of Letters, Space to be transformed! Artist, Agnes Chavez, founder of the STEMarts Lab is...
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(x)trees installation and STEAM educational tour: Guadalajara, Mexico 2018
New Mexico artist/educator, Agnes Chavez and projection artist, Joe Abraham Dean were invited to project the (x)trees in Guadalajara as part of the U.S. Arts Envoy Sister City initiative. (x)trees is...
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U.S. Youth Ambassador opportunity
New Mexico middle and high school students! Check out this opportunity. The Experiment Digital: STEAM Discovery Lab brings together youth from the U.S. and Egypt for a fully funded winter virtual...
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BioMachine Design Challenge
JUMP TO WINNERSThe BioSTEAM International program encourages students to design their future, now. It is more urgent than ever for our youth to be informed and inspired to respond to the complex...
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STEMarts Lab + KERNEL X Light Art Festival
STEMarts Lab has partnered with the KERNEL X- Light Art Festival in Monza, Italy, to connect students there with students in New Mexico, to participate in an audiovisual 3D mapping onto the...
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BioSTEAM International
Why BioSTEAM? The COVID pandemic has deeply affected our educational institutions and how we relate to each other. Students and teachers have been required to work/study from home in isolation which...
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