Thrive Collective
This spring, Loisaida Center, FABNYC, and Thrive Collective are collaborating on a community mural at First Street Green (at the corner of Houston Street and 2nd Avenue) to commemorate the twenty-six “La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues” murals originally produced in the Lower East Side in 1985. Production of the commemorative mural coincides with the “La Lucha…
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Our Spring #SchoolMurals calendar is (mostly) set, and brings thirteen new mural projects involving eighteen great schools and dozens of community partners to Brooklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Queens. Volunteer details and sign ups are online here. For the season, we’ll add approximately 100 volunteer shifts with room for 5-30 volunteers each. Join us, please. Sorry, Staten Island isn’t…
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Our Spring 2017 Teaching Artists are trained and ready to start the new semester. The team gathered on January 27 for a full day orientation and interactive training for our accredited curriculum, built around our core values of creativity, collaboration, knowledge, excellence, transformation, and justice. We can’t wait for the new semester to begin! ‹ ›…
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On December 12, 2016, Thrive Collective participated in the kickoff event of Thrive NYC’s Week of Action with First Lady Chirlane McCray, Deputy Mayor Buery, and actor Dennis O’Hare in Union Square Park. As part of the event, the Mayor’s Community Assistance Unit invited passersby to collaborate with Thrive artists to create the custom “Holidays…
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Thrive Collective presents “Give Thanks” to The Clemente Cultural Arts Center. Happy Thanksgiving! We at Thrive Collective have so much to be thankful for this year, most especially 2,800 arts and mentoring students at 23 of the 100 schools we served with 120 school partners — and the 800 volunteers, 40 artists, musicians, and filmmakers,…
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Thrive Collective joined NY CityServe at the Movement Day Global Cities conference at the Jacob Javits Center on October 25-27, 2016. Friends from all over the world helped us create a collaborative mural by answering a simple question: “How should we love and serve our cities?” When the art installation was completed, it served as…
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Together with apprentice artists Pilar Batista and Nico Collazo, Thrive’s Creative Director Sam Wisneski led a live, interactive art demonstration at the 2016 Fuel Student Conference on Saturday, October 8, 2016. Five hundred students from the greater New York City area attended the event, and dozens participated in the production of the Art Redemption mural…
read moreOn June 4, 2016, a dozen Bronx based artists and arts organizations gathered to celebrate the rich cultural legacy of the Longwood neighborhood at the first I Am Longwood Arts Fest. Meet some of the collaborators. About the Arts Fest Partner Profile: YUCA Arts Artist Profile: Kim Andino Partner Profile: Elevate NY Artist Profile: Anthony…
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Thank you to the amazing response from the media last week celebrating the great work by NYC public school students and dedicated artists beautifying West 15th Street in Coney Island as part of the Coney Art Walls initiative. Here are a few of the reports. 1. “Brush with Fame: Kids paint mural with acclaimed artist” by…
read moreConey Island Art Walls, an outdoor museum of art, is hosting a student arts program called Thrive Collective. New York City has 419 schools with no arts program at all. The collective is working to change that. In the end, the art also changes the students who get involved. – Christal Young, Fox 5 NY
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