Thrive Collective
R.H.Y.M.E. (Rhymes Help Young Minds Excel) x Speek Lyfe: Music, Mentorship, and Student Voices at MS 42 Music is more than entertainment—it’s a powerful tool for education, self-expression, and personal growth. This year, we were proud to partner with Speek Lyfe to bring an engaging music and mentoring residency to the incredible students at MS…
read moreRhymes Help Young Minds Excel at P.S. 92 Thrive Collective & Speek Lyfe are proud to present another R.H.Y.M.E music and mentoring project with students at Adrian Hegeman P.S. 92 Guided by mentor and teaching artist Lawrence Coles, 5th grade seniors worked together to leave a lyrical legacy for their younger peers at PS 92…
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Join Us 7/24/2026 | 11AM 502-512 86th Street at 5th Avenue Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Art by Mister Kaves Sponsored by NYC Department of Small Business Services Public Realm Grant With Support from ASG Equities, NYC Council Member Kayla Santosuosso, former NYC Council Member Justin Brannan, the 86th Street BID, the Fifth Avenue BID, and the NYC…
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Thank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (“DCLA”), for investing in Thrive Collective’s mission to eradicate artless education since 2016. From July 2024 to June 2025, our New York City students and artists completed: 120 school and community murals in 34 NYC Council Districts totaling 30,000 square feet of public art at sixty-five locations in…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council As the Art a Catalyst for Change provider at three schools in The Bronx and Manhattan, it was our pleasure to collaborate with the Bronx Museum in producing the 7th Annual Art a Catalyst for Change final event at the Bronx Museum on…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council The 8th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2025. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced virtual reality, danced, freestyle rapped, performed a drum circle and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with…
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Thank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (“DCLA”), for investing in Thrive Collective’s mission to eradicate artless education since 2016. From July 2023 to September 2024, our New York City students and artists completed: 152 school and community murals totaling 40,000 square feet of public art at seventy-six locations in all five boroughs. Ten original…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council The 7th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2024. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced virtual reality, break danced, freestyle rapped, competed at drama games and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council As the Art a Catalyst for Change provider at three schools in The Bronx and Manhattan, it was our pleasure to collaborate with the Bronx Museum in producing the 6th Annual Art a Catalyst for Change final event at the Bronx Museum on…
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Students from six Queens middle schools will converge at Roy Wilkins Park for the 2024 Queens HeART Beat Festival on May 29 from 10am – 1pm. Join us to provide an interactive, arts-based field day experience celebrating the completion of the Art a Catalyst for Change anti-gun violence initiative. Sponsored by the NYC Council, in…
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