Group Mosaic Murals

Naiʻa’s Mosaic Mural process created a unique collaborative art experience that can used to increase people’s capacity for fostering connection, managing change, and increase productivity and solutions-based thinking. Mosaic Murals can help teams or groups push past limiting beliefs, and embrace their own creativity in ways that enhance their daily work.

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Realizing the process

Each group art experience is unique and built around the needs and capacities of the participating group or organization. Customized pre-and-post activities can also be employed to deepen the relationships amongst the participants, and unify them around a shared purpose or mission. The final Mosaic Mural is and original artwork, from which a digital scan is produced. Gallery quality prints and other products can be made as a means to share and commemorate the process, create corporate gifts, or to fundraise,

The Process

First, an outline of an overall image is created that exemplifies the mission, vision or gaol of the client. The master artwork then gets cut into "tiles" – the total number of tiles most often equals the number of participants. 

In parallel to customized activities, each person colors their individual piece or tile and then they are reassembled and merged into one cohesive mural. However, the magic of the process comes from people's individual desire to become part of something larger then themselves––to let go of their perceived limitations and even fears, and allow their creativity to emerge and be amplified.  

At the start of each workshop, participants introduce themselves and offer one thing they want to receive from the experience, and one thing they desire to contribute. They then choose a singular tile and begin coloring. Dialogue between people is an integral component of the personal and collective growth process. Nearing the end of the workshop, the floor is opened for people to offer their feelings and reflections. There can also be a facilitated dialogue around a particular topic or theme depending upon the purpose, deliverables and long terms goals of the overall project.

The final artwork is created be adding an overlay of patterns and an intensification color. The completed artwork is then scanned, mounted and delivered. Each participant also receives a digital copy.

The images above show before and after pictures of tiles from various Mosaic Murals™. Pricing for Mosaic Mural™ experiences vary and is based on overall size of the artwork,  the number of people participating (and their general age), and whether or not customized pre and/or post activities are desired.