Team Building That Works.
Bring in Bad Art Club and watch as professional guards drop away & real collaboration flourishes.
Let’s be real…
Most team building experiences either miss the mark or feel awkward & forced.
Bad Art Club is different.
Your team thinks they’re just making bad art together, but they’re really getting to know one another on a deeper level.
Designed to meet people where they’re at, Bad Art Club eases teams into authentic connection through unbridled creativity. It’s like a playground for expression, full of diverse perspectives that come together to create a completely unique (and, dare I say, artful) shared experience.
Stepping away from the screen, putting down the phone, and making art is impactful on its own. Bad Art Club elevates this experience by introducing fun, thoughtful prompts and games that are proven to unlock creativity and forge meaningful bonds.
When people feel safe to be themselves with their colleagues, perceived barriers of role and hierarchy dissolve, and everyone is appreciated for their unique contributions to the team.
Creative Workshops
For Teams IRL
When Bad Art Club comes into your office or offsite, expect a total vibe switch. Music, lights, decorations, (and the occasional costume piece) help your team shift out of the mundane and into the extra-ordinary.
Before long, your team is up on their feet, away from their screens, and tapped into the present moment. They’re engaging in fun, easy prompts and games (like making up a team handshake) that get them moving, talking and laughing together.
Then comes the main event. Picture this: Your team is gathered around a huge canvas, paints and random tools (shower squeegees, golf balls, clothes pins—everything but paintbrushes). One by one, they demonstrate how “not” to use the tools to apply paint to the canvas. All the while, their teammates watch in wonder and cheer them on.
The canvas fills up, layer upon layer, as each person adds their unique flair and “ruins” the canvas even more. We pause to take in the canvas as it evolves and when it’s complete, we choose to see it as a museum-grade work of art.
By the end of the workshop, your team has a shared sense of aliveness, playfulness, wonder and awe. Each group creates an entirely unique experience that’s impossible to describe.
Suffice it to say, people are full of surprises.
For Remote Teams
Let’s be honest—getting people to engage in yet another Zoom meeting (especially one that’s extracurricular) is tricky. We’ve all seen it (and we’re all guilty of it sometimes)—rows of static images on mute, passively listening just-in-case while flipping through 10 other open tabs.
Bad Art Club invites people to be real with themselves and one another. Slowly but surely, the virtual facade fades away.
To start out, your team is encouraged get as comfortable as possible—move to the couch, open a window, grab a hot drink—anything that helps them switch out of work mode and into who-they-are-at-home mode.
Then, they are tasked with grabbing anything at all to draw with and draw on—a newspaper, a napkin, a crumpled receipt—because we definitely don’t need fancy materials to make bad art. Creativity thrives within constraints. You’ll be surprised by what people can do with things found in the junk drawer.
Once your team is notably more relaxed, they’re invited into some fun, light prompts to engage their creative side and ease them into connection with each other.
Then, we draw! Imagine staring at the grid of faces before you and choosing random faces to draw, but the only rule is to draw them as poorly as possible—to make the faces totally unrecognizable!
This activity sets up an epic game of “Guess Who?!”, where the real clues come from the qualities we ascribe to each person (i.e. adventurous, funny, brilliant), not from our terrible rendition of their face. And don’t worry, we’ll provide an HR-approved list of adjectives to choose from.
In all of the silliness and nonsense, there is something real and intangible that emerges—trust. Your team gets to know one another (and themselves) on a deeper level. They feel seen for who they are, and they are reminded of the value of their innate creativity.
One thing’s for sure—Your team has never experienced a Zoom meeting like this before.
Trusted by
“I wish every team I worked with was required to do something like this. Too often we're defensive in sharing ideas, or calling things out. There are folks who don't think they're good enough, who are afraid to speak up, who are hesitant to work with other roles, and this is like the ultimate ice breaker.”
“It was honestly one of the best team activities we've done in a long time.”
“Ruining each other's art was the absolute best—it felt vulnerable but constructive. Like breaking down an artificial barrier, or like when you know someone well enough to give brutally honest feedback. It would be such a great exercise to do before a brainstorm.”