Youth Arts Action GFL Week 5: Group Painting Exercise

Free Calgary after-school program for youth ages 12-18.

Program Description:

Today’s session is a collaborative project to build a sense of cohesion within the group and develop teamwork skills. The group will create an art piece on a large canvas by taking turns adding to it.

The curation of this piece will be a unique reflection of how we engage and decision-make together. Through discussion that invites reflective listening and engagement from all members of the group, we will decide on various decisions prior to the first stroke. We will first determine what theme to portray to the viewer, then review the colour pallets from last week, and with a group consensus, select a colour pallet to use for the painting.

Youth will have time to explore varying intensities of brush strokes and techniques that may provoke different feelings from calmness to chaos. Then one at a time, youth will rotate taking turns adding to the collective canvas.

We will document the process and experience to share in the display at the Art Exhibit.