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Loving Our Neighbor: Wall Prep Day
Attention Artists and Thrive Volunteers: Help bring color to New York City! Starting Saturday, April 9 we will be working on seven outdoor school murals throughout New York City until the beginning of June. Volunteer
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Studio Artists at Play
Thanks to all who made Winter Break at the Studio so much fun. More panels coming mid-March. Stay tuned for dates/times. Thanks to Krystin Bruan/NY CityServe and Jeremy Del Rio for the photos!
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Winning at Dave & Busters
Winter Break means students and mentors create memories off campus. For the second consecutive year, our HVA students and mentors enjoyed their vacation at Dave & Busters in Times Square.
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Leave Your Mark this Winter Break
A student in one of our Bronx schools helping to transfer the design onto panels which will be painted afterwards. Attention Artists and Thrive Volunteers Volunteer with School Murals this week in our Thrive Studios. Starting on Tuesday, February 16 to Friday, February 19 from 11am – 9pm, we will be working on two murals in studio. We will transfer…
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Street Art 101
More fun with Sonic, from the Instagram collection. Street art can be used to bring new life into a place. Our students learned the art of blending, how to speckle, shadow and highlighting. This is the before and after pictures of today's class. Learn more at thrivecollective.org – @sonic002bad @2020schools #wearethrive #thrivecollective #thrive #streetart #graffiti…
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Make a Difference while Making Art
Sam Wisneski, Thrive’s Creative Director, inspires artists to provoke “creative disruptions.” Are you a painter, dancer, film maker, or musician? Are you looking for new opportunities to use your talents? Interested in beautifying public spaces and transforming students and schools? Join us at our second Artist Talk at Thrive Collective Studios. Let’s explore creative ways in which you serve through…
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I Am the The Bronx
Since November, visual arts teaching artists Naomi Kuo and Sam Wisneski have worked at IS 117 and The Young Women’s Leadership School on a collaborative school mural in their shared Bronx building. Here’s the initial concept drawing based on the student’s work for an interior mural at the main entrance. The theme, “I Am the…
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From Tragedy to Triumph: Thank You!
We did it! Thanks to your generosity, we achieved our goal and turned PriceWaterhouse Coopers’ year-end grant into $50,250. Thank you for helping us empower students to create lives and schools that thrive. With your continued support, we expect 2016 to be our most fruitful year yet.
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New Year, New Studio
Thank you to our partners NY CityServe and Salvation Army, for making possible our new Thrive Studio on West 14th Street, near Union Square! Studio interns and artists wanted. Photos of the studio build-out. Finished photos coming soon. Our @nycthrive Studio is taking shape! Thank you #Kekoa! #ThriveCollective #SchoolMurals #WeServe #SchoolPartnersNYC @nycityserve A photo posted by Jeremy…
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