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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.
Register Your School NowPlay with Color ('Cause Color Means Life)
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.
IT’S HERE! Our next free, downloadable coloring book is up on our website. Volume 3 is a collaboration with Tom Slaughter Studio to being you the late arist’s iconic alphabet! We hope you love it and remember to tag us and tslaughterstudio in your creations!
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#wallworksny #wallworksnewyork #wallworkscoloringbook #tomslaughter #tomslaughterstudio #alphabet #ABCs #free #download #coloringbook #quarantinelife #staycreative #supportsmallbusiness #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Essentials of an artist. omarvictorious friend biancadoesnyc is working on a mural in memory of vicevvs who passed away in April (a few weeks after I met him briefly at a graffiti.kids_ event). Mural is on Fulton and Classon, went passed it earlier today! (on the bed-stuy side, as classon is the border.)
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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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#spraypaintart #spraypainting #muralist #muralist #streetart #streetartworldwide #streetartphotography #streetphotography #bedfordstuyvesant #bedstuybrooklyn #bedstuy #brooklynart #brooklynphotographer #brooklynmurals #muralsofinstagram #clintonhill #clintonhillbrooklyn #spreadlovenothate #spreadloveitsthebrooklynway #bklyn #kindnessbeatsthevirus
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).
music is essentially healing. hope you’re taking care. 🖤 (Mazzy Star - Five String Serenade)
Found a new cool mural in my neighborhood! Be kind to each other cuz we are in this together! We will beat this virus together!
nycthrive toofly_nyc mcmaniphes
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#KindnessBeatsTheVirus #BringArtBack #NYCThrive #Toofly #tooflynyc #mcmaniphes #ArtInNY #LoveArt #Art #WillaSeesArt #Artstagram #CoolArt #ArtLovers #ArtLife #PublicArt #LoveStreetArt #StreetArt #StreetArtNYC #ArtMatters #MuralArt #CoolMural #Mural #NoFilter #LoveIt #LoveNYC #Beautiful #SelfieTime
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
“Art changes people, people change the world.” -Anonymous
Several years ago I attended an art show hosted by Thrive Collective. It was a beautiful event that showcased their students work while fundraising for future programs and mentors.
I left that event feeling so inspired that I doodled the artwork (left) using their logo that I tore from the event’s program. I then found myself drawing a blueprint of a facility in a different country that provided work for women while also creating opportunities for children to explore their identity through arts and sports.
One night, one event, one experience watered a seed within me, and now years later I am taking steps towards making that dream
a reality. Small steps, but mighty steps. I can only imagine the kind of influence that Thrive Collective has on their students through their mentorship programs and organization.
Art is a beautiful tool that can help us tap into the transformative power that lives within us all.
By partnering with nycthrive we are contributing to their efforts to eradicate artless education, restore play in playgrounds, and activate adult mentors in student lives. Join us today! Link in bio. #bringartback #wearethrive #kindnessbeatsthevirus #nyc
#Quarantinejam🙌🏽 PT. 4 Featuring edsonsean
J-O-Y JOY. 👈🏽
edsonsean and I started playing shows together last year and it’s been on ever since. I hope that this brings you as much joy as does me. Share with someone who enjoys beats and rhymes because Hip Hop is good for (y)our health. 🙌🏽 “We forever are faithful
To impart the art we are made to
For the brethren Edson I’m grateful
We on one accord with no XLR cables
The voice is the choicest instrument
These beats and bars are for your benefit
Caution the pessimist
Awesome the sentiment
Often it’s something like
talking to therapists
You know I’m all for the marriages
Pen turn a player to a bride or a Benedict
Horses and carriages
Of course I’m a never quit
Yo my baby fly and I ain’t talking bout Cherubim
If I ain’t rhyming then I’m perishing
Bring it even if I’ve got to wing it like a Seraphim
Till I’m next door to Dilla-where? (Delaware) like Maryland
And me and Phife get to cyph life I’m cherishing
After that we all might need a Claritin
Even the kind of guy who finds crying quite embarrassing
Fortunately there’s more to the narrative
Heaven is my home hip hip is my heritage
There it go
There it is
Nourishment encouragement
It’s all so imperative”
#randymason #edsonsean #beatbox #beats #rhymes #verse #lyrics #quarantine #corona #hiphop #nyc #bronx
Kindness cannot be quarantined!! Here is a sneak peek of the care package being delivered to Chi Chi. Chi Chi is one of the oldest residents but has the most youthful spirit. She is very independent, strong-willed and has a vivid memory. She always tells us that even if she could fly all over the world, she would still pick NYC because she loves NYC with all her heart. 💜 She is a blessing every single time we are in her presence. #leadersoflight #inservitude #Art4NY #volunteers #kindnessbeatsthevirus #carepackages
The wondrous world of martymar54 by martymar54. Celebrating amazing artists of color and those amazing people who Inspired us all. Join me for live paint sessions along with special guests you won’t want to miss. We paint, talk and inspire. Come hangout and paint or just enjoy energy. Wednesday’s 6pm IG live martymar54 and YouTube live “growth and goals” channel. #livepaint #illustrator #illustrationartists #art #acrylicpainting #jordan #jordan1 #jordan1bred #sneakerhead #sneakers #frida #basquiat #bobross #growthandgoalsmindset #artistsoninstagram theellenshow oprah tonyrobbins #kindnessbeatsthevirus
"Discus Fish" 50X70 cm Art Print #dikuka Discus fish (The King of Freshwater) are one of the most beautiful freshwater fish in the hobby, known for their spectacular colors and large, circular shape. They are very expensive. Symphysodon, colloquially known as #discusfish is a genus of cichlids native to the Amazon river basin in South America. Due to their distinctive shape, behavior, and bright colors and patterns, discus are popular as freshwater aquarium fish, and their aquaculture in several countries in Asia is a major industry. #WeRiseWeMake #kindnessbeatsthevirus
A bit late but finally finished a gratitude card for essential workers . And thank you extending to everyone who’s fighting for a cause they believe in .🔹 .
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#thankyou#quarantinediaries #illustration #poster #design #drawing #blueandwhite #bestnyphoto #nyc #essentialworkers #covid19 #art#drawing #health #hospitals #frontlineworkers #blue #timeoutnewyork #kindnessbeatsThevirus #nycthrive #pen#ink #inkdrawing #lettering #posterhousenyc nychealthsystem nycthrive posterhousenyc isometricstudio #peacheeblue #peachtao
Happy to be part of the team with nycthrive painting the letter “A” im for the new colorful #blackLivesMatter mural in Foley Square in city Hall Nyc . Day 1 complete !
Designed by 3 different artists artoftijay iamwetpaint and the painting of each letter was done by 15 different artists and crews . #mural for a #cause .
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#publicArt #blm #nyc #newyorkCity #cityHall #2020 #summer #streetart #painting #asphalt #asphaltart #colorful #nycthrive #kindnessbeatsThevirus #paint #artivism #artists #muralista #latergram
🎁Christmas Story Part 2 Coming to Netflix soon...
💙My brother Mike & maryakabetti2 officially welcome Isaiah into their family. 👶🏼lsaiah now has parents to call Mom & Dad, and they can now call him Son. We are proud & love you 💙
The Gospel lived out, Galatians 4:5...
#Valenzuela #family #babyboy #kindnessbeatsthevirus
#adoption #gospel #bbgun
Completed mural at Monticello Middle School. It was great experience creating this project with diegopimentel87 in 7 days. Thanks to the whole staff for your support and I hope the students enjoy it when they return. middleRJK #pantherpride #monticellorocks whymontirocks #schoolmural #schoolmurals #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleymagazine #hudsonvalleyartist #mural #muralist #muralart #muralpainting #muralsdaily #kindnessbeatsthevirus #pimentelmurals #monticello #monticellony #goldenmuralpaint #gpmuralpaints
“Yellow Zoanthid” 50x70cm Art Print #dikuka #Zoanthids (order Zoantharia also called Zoanthidea or Zoanthiniaria) are an order of cnidarians commonly found in coral reefs, the deep sea and many other marine environments around the world. These animals come in a variety of different colonizing formations and in numerous colors. They can be found as individual polyps, attached by a fleshy stolon or a mat that can be created from small pieces of sediment, sand and rock.#werisewemake #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Brought the kids to work and we had an absolute blast! Shout out to nycthrive and toofly_nyc who continually create hope and opportunity for young people in and around public schools through the arts and mentoring. This was fun!
FIN ➡️ photos
"For One and All"
Art Direction by minhafofa
#KindnessBeatsTheVirus
Art Direction by toofly_nyc
Contributing Artists
mcmaniphes
armordtribe91
miki__mu
coripoderosa
randymasonmusic
Special Thanks
theclemente teatrolatea
hiphophalloffamemuseum hfny agminnyc
#BringArtBack #WeAreThrive @ Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
#randymason #dad #bringyourkidstoworkday #daughter #son #father #family #art #nyc #murals #graffiti #spraypaint #paint #justice
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
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
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