CRAVE FOR CORPORATE

Crave Workshops is now hosting private events for firms. Are you looking for a special event for your employees? There's nothing better for team building than bonding over an indigo vat. We can help host a creative afternoon for your team, from 6 - 60+. Contact us for details.

BENEFITS OF CRAVE WORKSHOPS

In today's competitive market, a unique employee experience is crucial to longterm employee retention. We believe that making art creates an engaged and stimulated corporate culture. Our Crave Corporate Events aim to to inspire and connect diverse teams in innovative ways. 

Although art is typically feared, misunderstood or underrated, we believe that the process of making art is actually an invaluable partner for business. It’s not a crafty pastime, but a powerful tool for building essential skills including focus, confidence, teamwork and ingenuity.

Creative Workshops are a perfect setting for promoting team dynamics and connecting individuals. People who play together, stay together and art is connective play.

• Art making helps us quiet the mind and put us in touch with our inner voice. The art making process takes people out of the realm of analytical thinking and into the realm of heightened awareness.

• Art creates a bonding experience that facilitates collaboration and accelerates the ability get to the heart of a problem. Making with our hands illustrates how differently we see things, and helps us appreciate that many points of view contribute to the whole. Images externalize the unconscious and make tacit knowledge visible.

• Art-based activities can be used strategically to create safety, build trust, find shared values, and shift perceptions. Combining right-brain imagination with left-brain logic and analysis increases the capacity for breakthrough ideas and insights that lead to success.

SHIBORI
Conquering Fear of Embarking on the Unknown

Stuck in a rut? Shibori is perfect for those who tend to get “creatively” paralyzed. The process embraces the unknown. Students start with the same techniques, but the results are susceptible to indigo’s own will. Shibori is a wonderful practice for letting go, for embarking on a journey without knowing the answer, and for trusting creative instincts rather than over-thinking perfect solutions. 

Shibori is a Japanese technique of binding, stitching, and clamping fabric to create patterns when indigo dye is applied. The transformation of cloth dipped in indigo suggests a potency recognized by craftspeople all over the world. When these two techniques are combined, the results are some of the most immediate and creative textiles imaginable.

MARBLING
Promoting Spontaneity and Creativity

Marbling is a process where happy accidents create the best works of art. It's a "no fail" method where anyone can participate and make something beautiful. Like their makers, no two pieces are alike. This workshop promotes spontaneity and builds creative self esteem with a little bit of paint and a little bit of magic.

Marbling involves paint that is floated and manipulated on the surface of thickened water. By swirling the paint, students create a mesmerizing design that’s then transferred to paper as a permanent print. After spending time exploring colors and patterns, participants will try the technique on their own set of napkins.

SILKSCREEN
Building Teamwork One Layer at a Time

Our silkscreen class is a team building course where participants help each other create custom art. Each layer is built as a team, while individuals learn from each other’s unique approach. Silkscreen is a great tool for those who love to mix and match and play together. 

This workshop offers a quick method of silkscreen printing. Participants create their own screen-printed art using images and materials supplied to create prints. The screen will be prepared with bold patterns, but students can also cut their own stencils. We will explore color, pattern and creating expressionist monoprints.

BLOCK PRINTING
Inspiring Invention

The art of business is being creative with what is given. This workshop inspires coming up with unique solutions with a standard set of tools. It showcases individuals’ unique approaches to similar beginnings, where ten different people will have ten different solutions. Diversity is encouraged and required. Sometimes the act of simple repetition becomes the most powerful tool for reflection. Our Block Printing workshop builds mindfulness through a meditative art practice. Participants are rewarded with a complex product that showcases their careful process. It’s an infinitely creative piece made from the simplest of building blocks.

Block printing is one of the most ancient types of printmaking and is an excellent way to make something truly by hand. In this hands-on class, participants turn our blocks into unique patterns. Each student will leave with their own hand-printed tote bag.