On-site team building · Denver and Colorado

Build a more connected team by creating art together

We bring a guided art experience to your office, offsite or conference. Your people paint, talk and create one shared artwork, and they leave knowing each other differently. No one needs to be an artist.

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Led by Melanie Schambach, a trainer of facilitators with more than twenty years of practice. From 45 minute sessions to year long partnerships.

Staff and students painting a large shared canvas together on the floor
Brescia Centennial Portraiture, London, Ontario, 2019 to 2020

Organisations we have worked with

  • Amazon
  • Georgian Partners
  • Brescia University College
  • Mount Royal University
  • University of Victoria
  • Ursuline College Chatham
  • Vancouver Foundation
  • Egale Canada
  • Rainbow Refugee
  • Mission Services of London
  • City of Guelph
  • London Arts Council
  • City of Vancouver
  • The Alliance Center
  • School District 68
  • Art Not Shame
  • Muslim Resource Centre
  • Participation House
  • Sanctuary London
  • YMCA
  • Town of Castle Rock

We come to you

  • Your officeMeeting rooms, lobbies, open floors
  • Your offsiteRetreat centres, hotels, lodges
  • Your conferenceBallrooms, foyers, expo halls
  • OnlineKits shipped to every participant

Why teams invest in connection

Engagement is the number HR is asked about. Connection moves it.

  • 20%of employees worldwide are engaged at work, the lowest level since 2020.Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026
  • 78%lower absenteeism in the most engaged teams compared with the least engaged.Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis, 2024
  • 14%higher productivity in the most engaged teams.Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis, 2024
  • 45 minof art making lowered stress hormone levels for most participants, whatever their art experience.Drexel University, 2016

Sources: Gallup State of the Global Workplace, Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis, Drexel University.

Three ways to start

Choose the experience that fits your moment

Two participants painting side by side on a shared canvas
We Are All One, Participation House, London, Ontario, 2019

45 minutes to a full day · at your office

Team Sessions

Five named formats for offsites, retreats, onboarding and culture days. Your team creates together and leaves with a finished piece.

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A large co-created mural installed on a building wall
Brescia Centennial Portraiture, London, Ontario, 2019 to 2020

Designed and painted by your team

Team Murals

A mural for your office that your people design and paint together, professionally finished and installed.

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Guests at an evening corporate event gathered around a collage table
Georgian Partners AGM, Toronto, 2017

Drop-in, 50 to 1,000+ guests

Event Activations

A creative station that turns conference attendees into collaborators and leaves your event with a shared artwork.

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Team building for

What are you planning for?

What happens in the room

Connection begins with the senses

Visual art speaks through colour, texture and image, a language everyone already shares. When a vice president and a new hire reach for the same paint, attention moves from titles to what they are making together. People listen differently. Quieter voices show up in colour and image. Within the hour, a group of colleagues becomes a group of co-authors.

Every experience is guided step by step, with simple prompts and materials that make taking part easy. Your team does not need to draw. They need to show up, and we design the rest.

I could not recommend someone more special, creative, capable, and skilled at engaging people of all artistic skill levels than Melanie.Dr. Brittany Jakubiec, Director of Research, Egale
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Two ways to partner

A quick activation or a strategic partnership

Quick Activation

For a conference, a kickoff or an all hands. One focused session or a drop-in station, designed around your theme and ready in weeks. At Amazon DEN3, 80 leaders created one collective artwork in 45 minutes.

Quick activations

Strategic Partnership

For leadership development, culture change or a milestone year. A series of sessions that builds to a permanent artwork and trains facilitators inside your organisation to carry the practice forward.

Strategic partnerships

Year-end and next year

Celebrate this year, set up the next

A year-end appreciation event your team creates together, or a January kickoff booked now. Both fit this year’s budget and next year’s plans.

Plan year-end or January

Studio projects

Join something bigger

Denver · Seeking partners and sponsors

World’s Largest Collaborative Painting

25,000 people in Denver, each painting one story of what makes us human into a single shared artwork.

Partner with the project

Colorado · Open to hosts and sponsors

Neighborhood Art Galleries

Small outdoor galleries where neighbours show their art, swap supplies and meet each other.

Bring one to your community

Not sure which format fits?

Tell us your group size, your goal and your timeline. We recommend a format and send an estimate, usually within two business days. Every engagement is priced for the whole group and designed around your goal.

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