Thrive Collective
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…
read moreThank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, for investing in Thrive Collective’s mission to eradicate artless education since 2016. In FY23, our students and artists completed: 156 school and community murals at seventy-four locations in all five boroughs; 28 original songs and 27 music videos; Our 450th mural since 2013; Our 25,000th student and 200th…
read moreThe Annual Queens Art a Catalyst for Change Culminating Event—the HeART Beat Festival—returns for the sixth time. The 6th annual Heartbeat Festival was held on May 25th, 2023 at Black Spectrum Theater in Roy Wilkins Park, Queens, NYC. The Festival is produced by Thrive Collective in partnership with The Museum of The Moving Image and…
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Three hundred students from six Queens middle schools will converge at Roy Wilkins Park for the 2023 Queens HeART Beat Festival on May 25 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…
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