Corporate Workshops

Corporate Art Workshops

Artbox London offers creative workshops for organisations looking to bring teams together in a thoughtful, engaging, and memorable way. Workshops can take place at your premises or in the Artbox studio, and are designed to be inclusive, collaborative, and creatively stimulating.

Corporate workshops also offer organisations a meaningful way to engage with inclusive creative practice and support access to the arts.

Artist-led, collaborative workshops

Sessions are co-facilitated by Artbox artists alongside our professional facilitators. This creates a genuinely collaborative experience, where participants learn new creative techniques while working alongside artists who are developing skills in leadership, communication, and facilitation.

Workshops are shaped around your organisation and participants. You may choose to explore a theme connected to your team, values, or area of work. Alternatively, workshops can focus on a particular medium or approach, such as clay, mono-printing, painting, or drawing. .

If you would like, sessions can also include an artist sharing their creative practice and experience of working with Artbox, offering insight into the organisation and its values through lived experience.

Workshops can be purely creative or more social in nature, and we are happy to include options such as wine and snacks if you are looking for a relaxed, informal experience.

Social value and impact

Artbox corporate workshops support social value by creating paid, developmental roles for learning disabled and autistic artists, while enabling organisations to engage meaningfully with inclusive cultural practice.

Workshops align with priorities around diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellbeing, and contribute to long-term access to the arts through sustainable studio provision.

By taking part, organisations:

  • offer teams a high-quality, creative experience that encourages collaboration and fresh ways of thinking

  • engage staff in inclusion through shared creative practice

  • support paid creative and leadership opportunities for disabled artists

  • contribute to increased visibility and recognition of disabled artists within contemporary culture

  • help sustain a supported studio offering long-term creative development

This approach creates shared value - benefiting participating organisations, their teams, and the artists who co-facilitate workshops.

Donations 

We charge a fee per participant, with a minimum cost to ensure workshops are delivered to a high standard and all costs are covered. Fees contribute towards facilitator and artist co-facilitator time, travel, materials, and the training and support of artists involved in delivering workshops.

Income from corporate workshops also helps sustain Artbox’s daytime studio programme, supporting access to long-term creative opportunities for learning disabled and autistic artists.

Get in touch with Georgina for more information: georgina@artboxlondon.org

Examples of previous workshops

 

SSE: Getting Inspired by Entrepreneurs:

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.

The Francis Crick Institute: Eco-friendly Art

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.

A Therapeutic Session with Clay:

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.

Frieze: Painting/Printing Alongside Our Artists

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!

 

Black Rock: Art, Wine and Conversation in the Boardroom

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.