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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.
UN LIVRE DE COLORIAGE POUR LES ENFANTS CONFINES À TÉLÉCHARGER GRATUITEMENT !! "Wildstyle Coloring Book" pour #KindnessBeatsTheVirus
Proposé par les street artistes Crash John Matos, Bio Wilfreo Feliciano et Sonic Jesse Rod, en collaboration avec la galerie d’art WallWorksNY, le livre est disponible en téléchargement GRATUIT sur le site Thrivecollective.org/kindness. 31 pages à colorier (une par jour pour le mois de mai). Avec la participation de Crey132.
Aux enfants de jouer. Donnez libre cours à votre créativité avec ces coloriages, et partagez le résultat sur les réseaux sociaux en taguant #KindnessbeatstheVirus et en identifiant les artistes (liste à retrouver dans la présentation du projet).
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
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.
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***I’m looking forward to hearing from all of the “constitutional scholars”.
#subwaydoodle #subway #doodle #swd #nyc #ftrain #mta #mtasubway #masks #covidmasks #covid_19 #covid #covid19 #flu #flushot #fluseason #cold #maskup #chindiaper #heroeswearmasks #maskhole #maskholes #cdc #who #covidnews #kindness #kindnessmatters #kindnessbeatsthevirus #kindnessiscontagious #herecomethetrolls
First outdoor work since covid slapped us in the face. Blessed to be out and being creative in the community I love and serve. LOWER EAST SIDE. Support local businesses verlainenyc . #painting #mural #muralart #acrlicpainting optionanyc #kindnessbeatsthevirus lesclothingco #art #artistsoninstagram
Super excited to be a part of the next coloring book iteration from Wall Works. Amazing artists involved to help break up the monotony of quarantining. Check it out!! wallworksny ・・・
first one was so nice, we had to do it twice! VOLUME 2 of our free quarantine coloring book is now available!
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featuring abstrk anandanahu workingclasscatalyst chrisrwk thedrif orrdesigns giz_nyc keithharingfoundation kennyscharf kevintkelly_popart iankualii jmrizzi queenandreaone _suchstyles zimad_art
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#wallworksny #wallworksnewyork #wallworksgallery #wallworksatkreatehub #quarantinecoloringbook #wallworkscoloringbook #volume2 #free #download #supportsmallbusiness #supportart #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Have you checked out the creative flow happening with nycthrive #kindnessbeatsthevirus art challenge project? We’re putting the finishing touches on the final design while we stay inside drawing, coloring, painting, reading, listening to music and more. Staying in tune, creative, and informed like #FridaKahlo did for so many years 💪🏽✨Feel free to join us! ✨special shout out to biotatscru crashone miki__mu and many more sharing their works and submitting black and white drawings for all to print & color. 🥰
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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#mural #murals #streetart #chinatownmuralproject #chinatown #manhattan #nycthrive #thrivecollective #kindnessbeatsthevirus #LunarNewYear #fun #liondance #dragondance #tradition #streetarteverywhere #muralista #nycstreetart #streetartnyc #paint #painting #colorful #chinesenewyear #holiday #confetti #dumplings #2020 #ladieswhopaint #peacheeblue #peachtao
Nothing but time at home to get back to what I love, drawing and being creative with art. If you’re looking for some ideas and some amazing art to be inspired by check out the nycthrive they have a ton of activities for the youth to do during these times at home. Stay creative my friends. inthrivecollective.org/kindness #KindnessBeatsTheVirus #carealongtheway
My entry for the newest blessthehustle_ challenge. #patience #kindnessbeatsthevirus wes7svn... stepping out of the norm... #christianartist #jesussaves #roam1984 #warchristiancollective #graffiti #streetart #art #graffitiart #urbanart #graff #spraypaint #multilayerstencil #molotow #krylon #mural #hiphop #montanapaint #artwork #signlanguage #painting #rustoleum #voices #bombing #sprayart #paint #urban #drawing
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Spread Love - Its Contagious
projectivity was able to donate another mural for the first responders across from rumc_si on Castelton Ave. Shout out 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
Kindness is Timeless ❤️ Four years ago this week, New York City shut down. The COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a global scourge that would ultimately claim millions of lives.
Schools were closed for one week as city officials devised a plan for remote learning. Before the shelter in place order was given, a small group of students joined with artists @toofly_nyc and @mcmaniphes and filmmaker @daxtmatlock to conceive a viral antidote to the still unknown affects of the coronavirus.
Their response: #KindnessBeatsTheVirus
We salute their vision, compassion, and tenacity this week. More to come.
#WayBackWednesday #WeAreThrive #BringArtBack #liveARTfully
#fuckthecovid19
#fuckthevirus #artlife #art_spotlight #artist_4_shoutout #arte #art_empire #artist #pwoz #colorful #instalover #instagood #juxtapoz #mortauxcons #rsa_graffiti #pictoftheday #urbanartist #graffitiart #instagraffitiart #fuckthecoronavírus #graffitidontstop #instaart #arts_help #artofday #kindnessbeatsthevirus #stayhome
Join an all-star lineup of Thrive Collective artists this Thursday - Saturday for a collaborative, public art making experience that celebrates our resilience against the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial violence. Come wearing a mask and all art skills are welcome! Register as a volunteer at the link in bio.
#art #streetart #mural #muralist #thrivecollective #artepamigente #artsfestival #kindnessbeatsthevirus
💁🏽♀️Time to be real! 🍩 This morning I heard a lady in the donut shop respond to how are you with “I’m depressed like everyone else.” 😔I can understand why. For most of us, life just came in like a 🌪 and now we are scrambling to pick up the pieces without really knowing what the picture will look like. If I’m honest - I’ve dealt with deep sadness over loss of momentum for Inspire and the cancellation of the luncheons. 🍽 Anyone who knows me, is aware that I put my whole ❤️ into impacting students. 🛑 is not an easy word for me to handle. I had bought cases of water for the luncheon before the craziness hit and on Friday delivered some to hopemansion for mamas and babies in need. 🧊Watching that water go was a tangible reminder of an event and a dream put on hold.💡But then I realized I have a choice - I can stay disappointed by the current disruption or I can joyfully embrace this moment with generosity and faith and trust and love. 💕 Maybe you’ve got this lesson down, but if you’re like me, then you need a reminder. ✅So here it is from a case of water - you may not be able to control what’s happening around you, but you can control what is happening IN you! 🙋🏽♀️So today, even if I feel sadness or depression or disappointment or anxiety, I will NOT feed it because as my dear Cadre Madre jeannemayo says that what you feed, grows! 🙅🏽♀️I will find joy in giving what I have and helping where I can, making memories with my children while they are at home and believing that God can take broken pieces and make a beautiful mosaic even from this season! 🌅 #kindnessbeatsthevirus
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