Team Art Ideas: Get Your Group Together and Create Unique Art!
Collaborative art is a great way to get your team together and creating. I have three examples of team art ideas to share with you in this article. The examples include creating a mural with teenagers, creating an artwork with teenagers, and creating an artwork with adults. These examples include any age or ability level. They are just like all the collaborative artworks you’ll find on Painting Around is FUN! Painting around each other is just that. It’s a fun way to be companionable. You create something beautiful together and can be proud of your achievements working as a team.
Team Art Ideas: Create a Collaborative Mural as a Team!
Our “Find Your Confidence” collaborative social art mural took place at Aberfoyle Park High School. It engaged a group of year 10 and 11 girls. They used team art ideas to build confidence through a large public art project. We began with Messy Playing, covering the wall with tinted primer using big brushes, rollers, and textured sponges. The girls then painted circles in warm colours, adding spirals and patterns to create visual interest. Layers of accessible patterns followed in the exploring stage, and we completed the mural with a final BLING! layer, using paint pens, glitter glue, and nail polish to add unique flourishes, responding creatively to each other’s work.
Team Art Ideas: Create a Collaborative Artwork as a Team!
The “Safety” collaborative social art project was created in 2022 with Carers SA’s Young Carer Collective. It explored team art ideas. These ideas represent why young carers aged 12-18 feel safe at Carers SA. Using cool colours symbolising safety, the group started with circles, ovals, and spirals that overlapped across the canvases. Drawing from my ‘Pattern Play’ inspirations, they added unique decorations and overlapping patterns. Small brushes were used to build layers of patterns, while meaningful words representing safety were added as text-based decorations. The young carers names were also hidden within the artwork, adding a personal touch to the collective piece.
Team Art Ideas: Create a Collaborative Artwork as a Team!
This collaborative art project is called ‘Circles of Connection’. It was created with the Mums from the Australian Parent Carer peer support group called ‘My Time‘. It used team art ideas to relieve the stresses of raising children with special needs. The project achieved this through collaborative painting. The project started on a bright yellow ‘happy canvas.’ Everyone painted circles and moved around to overlap each other’s work. They outlined each other’s work, then used stencils to add more layers and visual interest. Stamps, dots, and bling like colourful stick-on gems and white and black paint added final touches. The artwork was completed over multiple sessions. This involved more carers. It serves as a lasting reminder of their shared creativity. The artwork decorates our meeting room to this day!
These team art ideas offer a powerful way to foster teamwork. They also boost creativity. This is clear in the diverse projects we’ve covered here. At Aberfoyle Park High School, the girls built confidence through a collaborative public mural. They used circles, patterns, and layers of bling. The Carers SA “Safety” project allowed young carers to express their feelings of security through overlapping designs and words. Meanwhile, the “My Time” carers group used a bright yellow canvas to create a stress-relieving artwork. They added stencils, stamps, and gems for a personal touch. These projects show how collaborative art encourages connection and creativity, leaving lasting impressions on participants. All are excellent ‘team art’ ideas you can adapt for your own groups.
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