Thrive Collective
Experience public art murals with the interactive Thrive Collective Mural Map. Explore artists, locations, and curate community walking tours. Designed and Built by Visionary Interns The Thrive Collective Mural Map was built by student interns from Vanguarde Digital working collaboratively with Thrive Collective staff and artists. Summer 2026 Cohort: Fahim Tanvir and Taqarrub Hossain refined…
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Baltimore Mural Collaboration Brings Deep-Rooted Messaging to Community Baltimore, MD — March 2026 — A major public art transformation has taken place in Dundalk as Projectivity Group and Thrive Collective, two non-profit organizations, completed a month-long mural installation on the exterior of the new Hope Outlet. Over the course of November, three large-scale murals—covering approximately 1,200 square feet—were…
read moreIn support of #GivingTuesday this year, join Thrive Collective in giving our support to Projectivity for their University Blvd. Beautification Project in Montgomery County, Maryland. Please join us and give generously via their GoFundMe page. Projectivity is no stranger to Thrive Collective. We have actively collaborated in New York City to create hope and opportunity…
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For over 20 years Matt Stevens and Jeremy Del Rio have built foundations for service in both Baltimore and New York City, and expanded into cities all across the country. Jeremy’s Thrive Collective has been working to eradicate artless education and provide hope and opportunity through the arts and mentoring programs in and around public schools…
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Fresh Paint, Positive Messaging Lead a Park Transformation in East Baltimore After years of neglect, a local Baltimore park and playground received a much needed facelift thanks to a volunteer beautification project powered by a local non-profit organization Projectivity Group and local ministry Beyond The Walls Christian Ministry. Community organizers met with current and past…
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Thrive collective R.H.Y.M.E Director Randy Mason x Next Level USA 11.0 Next Level is an international hip hop diplomacy initiative by the U.S. Department of State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Meridian International. Exchange Our World and Next Level USA is building a global community through Hip-Hop culture! Last week, U.S.…
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Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo from Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. This fall, Thrive Collective completed our first two school mural programs at Colegio Católico Nuestra Señora del Pilar and Academia Bautista Sotera Sanchez in collaboration with Urban Strategies and PROSa / Grupo Nexo. Veteran Thrive teaching artist Tsvetana Dondero led the programs and art directed…
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Thrive Collective and Projectivity Group are expanding to the DMV Region (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia). Christian Penn, the Operations Manager at Thrive Collective, has lived in New York City for the last 21 years, but is relocating back home to Maryland. Penn is looking forward to using the same creativity and passion there that…
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On Saturday, December 17, an intergenerational group of Lower East Side leaders came together to celebrate the ribbon cutting for a series of murals that paid homage to the CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center, which was located at 605 East 9th Street from 1979 until the beginning of this century. The 152,000-square foot complex, once home…
read moreSTILL WE RISE ⇑ Thrive Collective’s first School Partners USA school mural project was completed on November 12, 2021, at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas. Local ABC Affiliate WFAA 8 featured the ribbon cutting on their newscast. [Video above. See more at WFAA.] Art Direction by Michael McPheeters SPECIAL THANKS South Oak Cliff…
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