Cadwell Collaborative

11/24/2025

P.S. to last post...I will post monthly blog reflections at louisecadwell.com. Another place to find us is on instagram and . Happy Holidays and blessings to all. Louise and Ashley

11/21/2025

Hello Friends, If you would like to follow me and on-going blog posts and adventures, find me at, https://www.facebook.com/louise.cadwell and request to be a friend. If you would like to follow Ashley, find him at https://www.facebook.com/j.ashley.cadwell. We will not be posting here any longer. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

11/21/2025

Hello friends, If you’d like to continue following me and on-going blog posts and adventures, find me . New blog post up on louisecadwell.com on Bill McKibben’s new book, Here Comes the Sun. Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🍂🙏

09/27/2025

Launching a new website that is a new iteration of Cadwell Collaborative. Check out louisecadwell.com to find continued blog posts, drawings and paintings in progress, and the archive of the Cadwell Collaborative site including many years of blog posts. Within a few months we will close out this instagram account so find me at .

09/27/2025

https://louisecadwell.com/blog/2025/9/27/6ajyw0jmufwzieei230bh9wlg59hr4

Our first blog post for Cadwell Collaborative was posted in June of 2011, 14 years ago. With that post, we welcomed everyone to the website and the new feature.  Today, I welcome you to a new website, and a new iteration of what we have done for all these years! Launching Louisecadwell.

08/28/2025

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2025/8/27/celebrating-the-hundred-languages-join-us-september-13th

Next June through August, 2026, an inspiring exhibit from Reggio Emilia , Mosaics, Marks, Words, Materials , will be at The Winooski Educational Center in Vermont.  Mosaics, Marks, Words, Materials is an exhibition-atelier that brings together children’s works and processes on t

07/13/2025

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2025/6/23/the-parting-glass

06/18/2025

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2025/6/15/a-story-of-identity-unfolding

This school year I have had the privilege of working alongside Sarah Hassing , a colleague and friend who is the atelierista at The College School in St. Louis, Missouri.  Sarah and I have been close colleagues for many years.  We traveled to Italy together in 2011 to attend a c

05/14/2025

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2025/5/12/ode-to-carla

Carla Rinaldi left this world on April 16th, 2025. She left an enormous and beautiful legacy behind and a challenge for all of us to continue her important work on behalf of all children.   I met Carlina Rinaldi in 1990, at a conference hosted by George Forman and colleagues at Unive

03/02/2025

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2025/2/28/aki5c2usppenbn91jlp0qtzdqu90gf

These days in Vermont are beautiful. Snow covers the hills and many days are filled with bright sun and blue skies.  We are grateful to live in such a place with space and birds and snowy woods to walk and ski in. I have been singing with the Middlebury Community Chorus and painting ev

12/24/2024

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2024/12/24/christmas-eve-2024

It seems that I have been traveling for weeks.  I visited both my sisters, one in Minneapolis and the other in Pennsylvania.  My sister in Minneapolis broke both hips, one after the other, and is now slowly recovering at home.  She is seventeen years older than I am.&n

11/27/2024

https://www.cadwellcollaborative.com/blog/2024/11/27/praise-the-light-of-late-november

As we approach Thanksgiving, we are filled with gratitude for our lives full of love and family and friends and for the beauty of the earth.  We are especially thankful for the partnership and trust of the teachers and administrators in schools where we have worked, and for all of you out t