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Help kindness go viral
During the Coronavirus quarantine, unleash your creativity with these free coloring pages, daily prompts, lesson plans, hashtag challenges and more.
Meet the student visionaries here.
Register to win a free mural here.
Share your stories, photos, media, and art on social media, and tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and @NYCThrive.
Win a Free Mural
NYC public school buildings may be closed through June, but this spring participating schools can win a FREE one-of-a-kind school mural. Every NYC Public School that registers as part of “Kindness Beats the Virus” will be eligible to win a FREE mural designed in the days before the quarantine by five students and street art legend Toofly. To register your school, complete this simple form. The mural will be awarded to the school that has the highest percentage of enrolled students participating in Thrive’s #KindnessBeatsTheVirus activities. The winning school will be chosen based on the number of public student Instagram posts that utilize both the #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag AND the unique school hashtag included on the registration form.
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Coloring Sheets
Download individual coloring sheets, or the collections as pdfs. Share your colorized versions on Instagram or Facebook and tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and the artist.
New Release (6/10)
Curated by Bio, Crash, and Sonic. Presented with WallWorksNY.
Featured Artists: Bio | Crash | Coraima Santana | Daze | Joe Pimentel | Julio Olvera | Kekoa | Kristen Hubbard | La Borinqueña | Larry Valenzuela | LAZOO | MadC | Nicer | Nick Walker | Nico Collazo | Olga Correa | Oliver Rios | Ronnie Robles | SONIC BAD | Shiro | Toofly
New Release (4/29)
31 Pages: 1 a Day for the Month of May
Download the entire collection, an international, all-star selection curated by legends Bio, Crash, and Sonic. Presented in collaboration with WallWorks NY.
Featured Artists: Banga | BG-183 | Bio | BRE | COPE2 | Cren | Crey132 | Daze | Flavor | Ice One TWA | Jon Phes Souza | Kaves | Kekoa | Nicer | Nico Collazo | Pwoz | Quik | Ruse BAD | Santiago Jaén | Sar TMB | Soem | SONIC BAD | Toofly | Wuze
Featured Collab
For Masterpiece Minds
Daily Prompts
Activate your imagination everyday with these daily prompts. Share stories, pictures, media, and art on social media. Tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and @NYCThrive. Examples:
- Download Week 1 (pdf)
- Download Week 2 (pdf)
- Download Week 3 (pdf)
- Download 21 Days (pdf)
As Seen on Instagram
Art Lessons for Remote Learning
Lesson Plans
Written by Thrive Teaching Artists for non-artist instructors; utilizing non-specialized, readily available, at home materials. Download individual lesson plans as pdfs.
- Animal Character Design (pdf)
- Graffiti Lettering Basics (pdf)
- Guess Who Does What? (pdf)
- Hip Hop Haiku (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 1 (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 2 (pdf)
- Natural City (pdf)
- Paper Totem Poles (pdf)
- Personal Logos (pdf)
- Perspective Drawing (pdf)
- Self Portraits (pdf)
- Unconventional Mosaics (pdf)
Featured Partner: Projectivity
Music Samples & More. Download Projectivity’s “Producer Sample” packs and coloring book. Producer samples can be used to make your own music or videos. Download them now and make sure to tag @projectivity and the artist when you create with them, along with #KindnessBeatsTheVirus.
DownloadOnline Workshops
Interested in online arts and music workshops during the quarantine? We have options (as of 4/6).
Instagram's Top Twenty
The Hashtag Challenge
Use the #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag and tag @NYCThrive. “Like” your favorites to feature them in an upcoming art exhibit. The exhibit will include two Hashtag Challenge categories. The top two entries from each category will have the opportunity to merchandise their submission as a collaboration with an acclaimed artist.
💛We can no longer pretend that we don’t need love. Kids need it, parents need it, our neighbors need it…we all need it.
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, and hold tight what is good” – St. Paul 🧨
Help spread love today.💛
👇🏼Tag someone who always shows you love.
🎨‘d @ Resonate Alley
#GodisLove #OneLove #BeKind #Kindnessbeatsthevirus #moreloveplease #morekindpeopleplease
We grieve the unexpected loss of long time friend, emcee, and mentor @thebronxpastor_e . Efrain Alicea and @jeremyrdelrio first met and collaborated in 1996. In 2015, @randymasonmusic became Pastor E's associate pastor and grew as a leader under his mentorship. Pastor E introduced Randy to #ThriveCollective in 2017, which he now leads as our NYC Director and founder of @rhyme_nyc.
Enjoy this #KindnessBeatsTheVirus #quarantinejam🙌 collab between the two in the early days of the pandemic. 📽 ➡️
Our hearts and prayers are with the Alicea and @elementschurch families. We mourn and honor his beautiful life and deep cultural and spiritual legacy in NYC and beyond.
#LoveWell #CreateMemories #ChangeTheWorld #liveARTfully #wearethrive
Huzzah for finishing up another mural! Thanks to peacheeblue tunamelt.nyc miki__mu emmy_fenty edmon.d20 for coming and being cold with meee. #kindnessbeatsthevirus #bringartback #mural #muralart #nyc #brooklyn #painting #dailyart #justice
The F train isn’t sure if they have a cold, the flu, or covid. But they’re considerate enough to not want to share whatever it is. Kindness is contagious.
***This account is not public property. Spreading misinformation will no longer be tolerated. Contrary opinions are respected, but misinformation without a shortened url to a reputable source earns a permanent ban. My house, my rules.
***I’m looking forward to hearing from all of the “constitutional scholars”.
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Holiday season is here ! “Dragon Lion Medley “ , latest festive mural of chinatownmuralproject with nycthrive 🦁🐲 ! Do you like watching Lion dancing during lunar New Year ? 🎉🏮🧧 There are some iconic Chinatown establishments in the mural include PS23 , wohop17 hop_kee_nyc
Thank you skioding miki__mu tunamelt.nyc abhifornow ting_ing_ng_ whippersnabs
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Going to start working more on my little at home mural! Pump up these details 🎨
#wip #art #paintforapurpose #home2020 #painting #colorful #earthday2020 #stayhome #kindnessbeatsthevirus #mural #muralart #animals #acrylic #newyork #newyorklife
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Spread Love - Its Contagious
projectivity donated this mural for the first responders across from rumc_si on Castelton Ave. #Shoutout to kwuemolly for the theme and inspiration and to mrtariqnyc of richmondhoodco for connecting with local businesses always making the community look amazing, and for assisting with the painting. 🖌: tekstthc
📷: mrtariqnyc
This piece fits perfectly with nycthrive #kindnessbeatsthevirus campaign. Check them out and all the amazing artists and students from around the globe helping spread love and kindness through the arts
#spreadlove
#projectivity
#projectyourself
#kindnessbeatsthevirus
#statenislandstreetart
#streetartnyc
Day 2 at Dover High School♥️.
#pimentelmurals #kindnessbeatsthevirus #schoolmural #muralist #mural #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleyartist #doverplainsny #schoolmurals #heart #doverhighschool
#Kaya nycthrive #kindnessbeatsthevirus #staysafe #coloringbook #stayathome #savethechildren mr_boris_becker crashone biotatscru sonicbadnyc #streetdreamgallery #art #graffitiart #covid #culture #basalt #badinc
My noodle shop is now open at 32 mulberry Street ( or 100 mosco street ) . The first mural of #chinatownMuralProject 🙂 organized by 1taipan .
Super Sunny day !!
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#chinesezodiac
#mural #muralist #streetart #nyc #newyorkstreets #chinatown #manhattan #newyorkcity #painting #paint #bodegacat #muralista #noodles #noodleshop #rabbit #tiger #catsofinstagram #blueandwhitechina #summervibes #supportChinatown #kindnessbeatsthevirus thinkchinatown beyondchinatown lmcc_nyc #peacheeblue #peachtaoart #peachtao #streetartnyc #nycstreetart
Morning coloring sesh with the little one. “Be safe! Protect Yourself!”
“Be Nicer.” nycthrive
“Wild Style Coloring Book, VOL. 2”
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#kindnessbeatsthevirus #staysafe #coloringbook 4 #nyc #schools #stayathome #savetheplanet #savethechildren mr_boris_becker sonicbadnyc biotatscru crashone streetdreamgallery #art #graffitiart #covid #hiphop #culture #badinc #tds #basalt
& not forgetting my little "compo face" bonkers Beryl 🥰
Blossoms 1st parents eve/zoom due to covid its not the norms but we've never been or had normal so we love it !
She Sits with the ones who are feeling sad, looks after the ones wanting their mummy's, shes quietly confident, enjoys her lessons, very kind & caring,
Can count to 100 & loves to learn
A joy to have in the class , ( I think they may of got the wrong kid 😉) but to know shes kind, caring looks after the ones feeling sad, I could not feel more proud of her & super chuffed with her as always 😊 #shesastar🌟
#kindnessmatters #lookoutfortheoneswhohelp #kindnessbeatsthevirus #keepingitreal
A little visitor today 🐝 on my mural 🌸. .
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#mural #muralpainting #muralart #painting #quarantinelife #spring #homemural #paint #lizard #bougainvillea #flowers #bee #hornet #brooklyn #nyc #bedstuy #rooftop #illustration #ladieswhopaint #muralista #seawalls#wallart #streetartist #summer seawalls_ pangeaseed #muralist #newyorkcity #kindnessbeatsTheVirus #nycthrive #thinkspacehappyplace #acrylicpainting
Students of the Boerum Hill School of International Studies helping to paint their #justiceforoneandall mural in Cobble Hill today. So good to finally work with kids, although with social distancing and masks, after the pandemic. Covid19 is not over yet, but you can feel and experience the resilience in NYC. And it’s beautiful to see communities thriving again.
#kindnessbeatsthevirus #schoolmural #mural #cobblehill #boerumhillschoolforinternationalstudies #justiceforoneandall #equality #blm #hereisthefuture
The good people at bkstreetart
Wrote an article about the Native New Yorker 2020 tribute I painted on the #Newyorkcity #subwaymap
visit https://www.brooklynstreetart.com
To read all about it. 🙏🏼Thank you #bkstreetart and marthacoopergram for the love... stay Healthy Native New Yorkers!!! bkstreetart YOU’RE THE HEART AND SOUL : OLIVER RIOS CREATES TRIBUTE TO “NATIVE NEW YORKER 2020” / DISPATCH FROM ISOLATION # 57 👉👉👉Go to linkin bio to read the article AND interview 👈👈👈 oriosdesigns #oliverrios “To live in NYC you have to understand and go through the city’s everyday grind! Understanding the everyday hustle, the history, the diverse cultures, the crime, the rats, the pigeons, the parades, the clubs, the bars, the historical sites, the crowded subways, the cabs… everything.” #oriosdesigns #covid19 #kindnessbeatsthevirus 😷👍
Completed 5th grade mural collaboration for Taft Elementary School in Washingtonville, NY. Unfortunately the kids couldn’t participate this year but they all contributed their self portrait drawings to the project. #schoolmural #schoolmurals #washingtonville #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleymagazine #hudsonvalleyartist #mural #muralist #muralart #muralpainting #muralsdaily #kindnessbeatsthevirus #diversity #kindness #pimentelmurals #gpmuralpaints #goldenmuralpaint
• nycthrive Black Lives Matter mural, Day 1, is a wrap. Friday morning touch ups and detailing, then redeploy #ThriveCollective team to assist other letters. Join us 8am.
What a gift to help bring artoftijay's artistic vision to life, and work next letter to crashone and orrdesigns.
Walk all three blocks in our story.
#BlackLivesMatter #KindnessBeatsTheVirus #WeAreThrive #BringArtBack #CreateWithUs nycyouth nycyouth nyculture nycschools galeabrewer nyccouncil nycmayor tatscru wxystudio artoftijay materialsforthearts
Thank you all once again for your incredible support of #KindnessBeatsTheVirus throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Wildstyle Coloring Books. VOLUME 2 is out NOW and features a cover art collab between our curators Bio, Crash, and Sonic, and pages by: biotatscru crashone coripoderosa dazeworldnyc joepimentelart julio_draws artbykekoa kristenigma laborinquenacomics larry__valenzuela yannlazoo mad_c1 nicertatscru nickwalker_art armordtribe91 olgacorrea_art oriosdesigns sonicbadnyc whereuatro shiro_one toofly_nyc
You can download the entire collection online FOR FREE at : https://www.thrivecollective.org/kindness/#wildstyle
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