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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.
At Ps280Q our students are staying healthy, staying moving and keeping our spirits up during Virtual Spirit Week! 🤩 #TikTokTuesday! #VirutualSpiritWeek #Ps280Q #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Tik Tok Tuesday! Oh what fun!! #ps280q #virtualspiritweek2020 #allin #kindnessbeatsthevirus
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
whanganuiwalls pangeaseed seawalls_ nycthrive
A world without art?…
#EveryTuesdayisGivingTuesday 🙏
Our staff is committed to supporting the good in our world.🤝🌎 Every Tuesday, we feature an organization that is truly making a difference in their community.
nycthrive creates hope and opportunity through arts, sports, and mentoring in and around public schools by connecting them with artists, youth workers, and volunteers. During COVID-19, they’ve adapted their programs for online learning and have served 45 schools with their #KindnessBeatsTheVirus campaign and "Tools for Schools." Since 2011, more than 15,000 students and 3,000 volunteers have created a total of 75,000 sq. ft. of public art!🎨🖼
💬“The antidote to the taker is the giver. 2020 took so much. It also demonstrated the resilience of humanity, and a generous spirit that rises above all.” Jeremy Del Rio, Executive Director
🎭We can't imagine a world without visual or performing arts -- and neither can you. Yet our cities sentence millions of our most vulnerable students to an artless education everyday. Help them “Bring Art Back” to low-income schools! 👉Tap the link in our bio👈
So this was my contribution to HOME, an at home mural festival in response to COVID-19 and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day put on by pangeaseed seawalls_ aai_nz whanganuiwalls. I wanted to make something bright and beautiful and have the sense of animals emerging from/ entangled with the hair. Our growth and livelihoods are so connected to animals and our environment. This was a lot of fun to paint and see come alive!
#paintforapurpose #home2020 #protectwhatyoulove #painting #colorful #earthday2020 #stayhome #publicart #muralartist #quarentinelife #acrylic #kindnessbeatsthevirus #mural #muralart #animals #newyork #bright #faces #facedrawing #hair #artoftheday #artist #nature #beautiful #fun
Found something new as I headed to spahasoul tonight for amazing food, artistthornton music playlist serenading me, and being able to talk to kevinsmithnyc face:face after many months. Definitely relaxed tonight. Thank you😘 #kindnessbeatsthevirus
& 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
Evan delivers us, all, constant inspiration!
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KING OF KINGS is a concept I dreamt of last year. Tonight I am going to play with it (outside of my head) at our weekly online experience for art4_wellness.
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#art4_wellness #art4wellness #art4wellnesswednesday
#artistssupportingartists #artcommunity
#art #wellness #artheals
#liveart #livemusic
#katoriwalker
#evanbishopart
#luisavibes
#uptownvinylsupreme
#320arts
#werise
#creativelife #artlife
#artandsoul #artlovers
#collaborativecreativity
#theartistsway #kindnessbeatsthevirus
#ThankfulThursday at #PS280Q 💕 What are YOU thankful for today? 🥰😊 #kindnessbeatsthevirus
One of my *favorite* myths about the “American west” is that it was white. 1) the American west was northern Mexico 2) slavery was abolished in Mexico in 1829 (yes that makes Texas history even more fucked up) .
The “American west” was Indigenous, Black, mestizo, AND Asian.
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"ORIGIN STORIES" Father's Day edition by studiomuseum educator nelarte for #KindnessBeatsTheVirus | Ellis “Mountain Man” Harris from “The Black Cowboy” exhibition
From November 2016 to March 2017, The Studio Museum in Harlem showcased “The Black Cowboy" exhibition curated by Amanda Hunt. Cowboy offered a snapshot of Black communities with long histories of keeping and training horses, represented primarily through photographs and cinematic materials.
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This photo of Ellis Harris was one in a series of black and white photos by Brad Trent. The portraits ran in The Village Voice, and feature members of the New York chapter of the Federation of the Black Cowboys (FBC). FBC was a New York City-based community that shares the legacy cowboy ancestors with African-American city youth through mentoring, rodeos, and school visits. A long-standing member of FBC, Harris became a cowboy after watching a black rodeo in Harlem in the 1970s.
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TO READ THE REST GO TO nycthrive
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#blackcowboy #fathersday #nycthrive #studiomuseumharlem #federationofblackcowboys #history #americanhistory #erasure
I have to admit this is one of the sweetest submissions we have received for the #kindnessbeatsthevirus challenge! Thank you so much to psms34fdr 2nd grader Jared Dides and family, for sharing the gift of song with us! The lyrics to this song are so touching and inspiring- especially right now. We have a lot of healing to do as a society, and this awesome lip sync is the perfect reminder of that! Thank you Jared and family for your participation for sharing the love! #kindnessbeatsthevirus #psms34 nycthrive
🤩📚🤓Whatcha Reading Wednesday was so much fun! We love seeing what books you are enjoying during #virtualspiritweek #remotelearning #ps280q #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Sending love from the courtyard. Susan and Sam just called to say that they are taking care of each other ❤️and sitting at least six feet apart. ❤️ And the herb garden is growing. ca_healthandwellness #lovesavestheday #communityaccess #artcollective #kindnessbeatsthevirus 📸 hollysuzy #physicaldistancingislove
A cool "thanksgiving" collection.
BUY IT NOW. Link in the bio
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#kindnessquotes #kindnessmatters #kindnessrocks #kindnessrocksproject #kindnessalwayswins #kindnessadvent #akindness #kindnessbypost #kindnessbeginswithme #kindnessboomerang #kindnessbeatsthevirus #kindnessbazaar_dus #kindnessclub #kindnessdiaries #kindnessdaysg #kindnessdoesntcostathing #kindnessdelivered #kindnesself #kindnesseconomy #kindnesseveryday #kindnesse
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
“Off the wall, think outside the box” this theme was never explored in class but we imagined a 3D Roller coaster, buildings, pigeons. What would you do? Amazing work Michelle! #vanscustomculturecontest #contest #arteducation #arted #art #shoedesign #remotelearning #nyc #newyorkcity #offthewall #kindnessbeatsthevirus
About this week’s #ART4_WELLNESS experience with bunnybungarcia. #Spirituality was the theme...
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Thank you to my art family art4_wellness. To everyone that comes every week to create in solitary during a chaotic time in our human history. To uptownvinylsupreme for bringing vinyl to the people in the digi age. I thoroughly enjoyed making tonight's piece and exploring and experimenting with mixed media collage/visual art. Tonight's theme was "spirituality" and I was stuck at first. I am deeply devoted to my spiritual growth and journey but expressing that through art is not easy. I decided to use matches that I had. The background is from a nature book in the USA; this is an active volcano in Hawaii. The matches are arranged so they create an eye. To me eyes are very spiritual. They are a gateway to the soul, we all have a 3rd eye, the chakra energy that is intuitive. I was inspired by the eye motif by Picasso. He drew really cool eyes on a piece. In Hinduism there is the god, Shiva. Shiva is the Destroyer, Purification by Fire, Chaos into Order. All and Nothing. Shiva is depicted with a 3rd eye and fire among other symbols in art. I also love "evil eye" charms. They are predominant in many cultures from Easten Europe, what was once called Asia Minor and Anatolia which is moden day Turkey, North Africa countries, Greece of course, the Balkans, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Parts of Asia to the East. There are interpretations of this all over the world . So I pray my "Eye of Shiva" piece wards off bad energy to all who need it. Remember that during these times we must be grateful for evem catastrophe because they bring a deeper level of consciousness that we need right now and a new way of loving life. I am eternally grateful to be an artist and to create from nothing and all. Thank you once again to everyone involved weekly.
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About last night’s #ART4_WELLNESS experience with evanbishopart as he continues his KING of KINGS series! Our theme was #Culture...
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“LOVE YOURSELF & YOUR EXPRESSION, YOU CANT GO WRONG.” - The BlastMaster KRS One
Painted live for art4_wellness. Two hours of funk!
#art4wellnesswednesday #hiphopappreciationweek #malcomx #krsone #evanbishopart #portraitpainting #art #culture #kindnessbeatsthevirus”
“Because color is life”, so glad that calichoart redid this beautiful piece at “wall of Justice” in Park slope! It got painted over on Tuesday by “accident”. •
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For the next few weeks, any OUTSIDE photos I take, I’m being socially distant and making sure to not touch anyone or anything. But for my mental health and exercise I DO need to get outside. Be safe everyone, we WILL and CAN get through this. •
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#spraycanart #spraypaint #muralist #justice #blmart #muralsofinstagram #muralsdaily #dailyphotography #brooklynphotographer #wallmurals #streetphotography #streets_storytelling #streetartworldwide #parkslope #parkslopebrooklyn #brooklynart #brooklynforlife #kindnessbeatsthevirus #streetartandgraffiti #graffiti #graff #graffitiphotography #beautifulcolors #streetartchat
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