One-off Workshops
Art Workshops
If you want to organise something fun and memorable for a group or your team, you can host an art workshop either at your premises or in the Artbox studio.
These workshops are co-facilitated by our artists, meaning that you’ll be contributing to their development, while learning new art techniques.
You can choose to explore a theme, which relates to your team and participants. For instance, the School for Social Entrepreneurs were guided by our artists to create portraits of entrepreneurs and shared uplifting and inspiring quotes from their heroes!
You can also choose to explore a particular style or medium, such as clay, mono-printing, painting and drawing. Some previous participants have explored the work of an Artbox artist and created in a similar style.
These sessions can also incorporate one of our artists talking about their work and experience with Artbox if you would like to learn more about the organisation through the main beneficiaries.
You can also decide to include wine and snacks if looking for more of a social experience.
Donations
We charge a fee per head for workshops with a minimum price to ensure we can fully cover our costs. Money for these workshops pays for the facitaters’ time, travel and materials, as well as a contribution towards artists being trained in co-facilitating workshops. Any profit after this goes back to our daytime workshops, ensuring that we can extend our capacity and include more people with learning disabilities
Get in touch with Madeline for more information: madeline@artboxlondon.org
Examples of previous workshops
SSE brought staff across the UK together for an away day in London, which incorporated a workshop led by four Artbox artists.
Participants picked famous entrepreneurs and decorated their pieces with inspiring quotes, which they shared as a group.
It was a session full of joy, colour and conversation - with a great theme to inspire and motivate their team.
A team from The Francis Crick Institute took part in a mono-printing and painting workshop co-facilitated by one of our artists.
In this workshop, participants learnt and tried out the techniques from Artbox artist Seatton who often creates mono-prints from used Riso masters from the studio. A Riso printer is not only an eco-friendly way of printing but by continuing to use the Masters, we are achieving our aims of becoming a sustainable studio.
The Francis Crick Institute also worked with Artbox artist Violet to create pieces out of air-dry clay in her style.
Violet says that she is always trying to “look at the world differently — in a different light,” and that she is “always thinking of what the next world is going to look like.” These ideas about life and the possibilities of the world are interlinked with her Greek/Cypriot heritage and involves elements from many Greek gods, myths and legends which can be seen within her work. These themes link closely to thinking about death and the afterlife, as Violet finds her art is a way to express her love and respect for loved ones who have passed.
Employees from Frieze joined us in our studio in Islington to create alongside our artists.
This was a great opportunity for staff from Frieze to get to chat to our artists and to learn more about them as people and artists. The workshop also promoted converstion and understanding between Frieze employees, who worked in different departments so it became a great day all round for making connections, as well as art!
A team from Black Rock took part in a portrait drawing class in their offices.
They were tasked with some simple and fun drawing activities as many had not engaged with art since school. Drawing each other provided lots of laughter and the wine and refreshments helped this board room turn into a place of relaxed conversation and joy.